Leeds United are flying within the Championship and look set for a return to the Premier League following a two-year absence.
They’ve racked up a powerful 75 factors in 34 video games and with 12 video games to go they will be aiming to interrupt 100 factors, and probably set a Championship file, which is at the moment 106, set by Studying in 2006.
Talks of an enlargement to Elland Street have rumbled on for years, however the risk now appears nearer to actuality following feedback from the membership chairman.
‘Bulletins to come back” on increasing capability of Elland Street
Ao Tanaka scored an important objective towards Sheffield United (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
Elland Street, which ranked at No.16 in FourFourTwo’s checklist of the very best soccer stadiums in Britain , has been the house of Leeds for his or her total historical past, with a present capability of 37,792, making it the nineteenth largest stadium within the nation
The file attendance is about at 57,892 and occurred 15 March 1967 in a FA Cup fifth spherical replay towards Sunderland .
Elland Street, Leeds, April 2024 (Picture credit score: Alamy)
Paraag Marathe, chairman of Leeds, revealed on the Monetary Instances Enterprise of Soccer Summit that there are plans to extend the capability of Elland Street as much as 53,000
By way of Ben Jacobs , Marathe mentioned: “Our objective is to broaden Elland Street. There’ll in all probability be a few phases that in the end take us to 53,000.
“The primary section will seemingly be 47,000 then as much as 53,000.
“Of paramount significance is to maintain the cauldron and electrical energy of the stadium the identical as it’s immediately. Elland Street is a stadium managers and gamers of different golf equipment do not like taking part in at.
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink celebrates after scoring for Leeds United towards Blackburn Rovers, 1998 (Picture credit score: Alamy)
“It has been referred to as a cauldron and a hurricane of noise. It’s actually essential for us to get extra of our supporters into the stadium, and make it much more tough for different golf equipment to come back and play in, however we wish to protect a few of the magic of what Elland Street is.
“We now have performed lots of the pre-development work, in choosing architects and dealing with the native council. There are in all probability some bulletins to come back and I’m actually enthusiastic about that.”
It could take the stadium into the highest 15 largest within the nation, one thing the membership definitely instructions.
The Damned United used Elland highway in 2009 to duplicate the texture of Elland Street within the Nineteen Seventies… (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
Elland Street desperately wants it. In an effort to recreate the texture of Nineteen Seventies Leeds United for The Damned United , they filmed… at modern-day Leeds United.
Increasing the capability moderately than constructing a brand new stadium is definitely the suitable selection, in FourFourTwo’s opinion. Stadium’s are essential piece of membership tradition, with followers attaching recollections to locations, and whereas new stadiums look improbable, nothing can fairly seize the environment of a stadium that’s a long time outdated.
