Aston Villa’s NEW £125M Stadium Upgrade Revealed

[@LteasAVFC]

This was something on the cards but no longer happening for a number of reasons. The main reason is the infrastructure around the stadium. Not enough train lines/services and access in and out of stadium. Sad!!

[@stevewall4589]

If there isnt going to be a new North Stand anytime soon. Two possible options 1) knock down the existing upper tier keeping the lower in place temporarily losing around 3500 seats and build the new stand from the back replacing the existing lower tier when ready or 2) Utilise the existing stand increase concourse areas, reprofile the seats depths, add a further tier and fill in the corners

[@busterruff9369]

They need more leg room in the upper North Stand ,as it’s shocking at the moment,

[@tomgillespie]

The rebuild project was scrapped earlier this year no?

[@pete3206]

Bit out of date isn't it? The whole thing's been kyboshed

[@amlmorris]

50.000 capacity isn't enough with 35.000 on a waiting list for season tickets,the Doug Ellis stand will need expansion or replacing as well. Many fans are attached to Villa park in a big way,but a move to a purpose built new ground would probably make more sense & if done well in a traditional style with modern facilities would be the best way forward I believe,but not another soulless bowl for sure,as that wouldn't go down well at all...... up the mighty Villa!!!

[@adamwhite3347]

I wouldn't read to much into that waiting list. No guarantees they will take up the seats if offered. With The current pricing model 50k would be more than enough.

[@cyberdonblue4413]

Villa Park is SACRED. All loyal fans would be massively opposed to moving to a new location with a crappy modern, soulless arena.

[@kevinjones6328]

That 35k is a myth. Where are they for cup games? I’m a member and have been for years and you can get tickets for the unfashionable clubs easily. With a 40k stadium, 30,000 season ticket holders and an away allocation if that list was full of people who actually turn up tickets would sell out in minutes for every game not just the glory hunter Champions League games or the likes of City and Liverpool. I bet there’s people on that list who haven’t been to Villa Park in the last 12 months. 50,000 is enough and there’s always the Doug Ellis to rebuild if we need another few thousand seats. It’ll get rebuilt at some point anyway because the concourse is awful and Chris Heck will be revamping the hospitality.

[@bugze666]

@@kevinjones6328it really pisses me off actually. Where were all these so called fans when we were playing the likes of Rotherham on a Tuesday night in January in the championship!!!!

[@vinylhorror]

@@bugze666 hope you’re not too upset, that was 5 years ago.

[@jonathansmith2540]

they ditched the new stand ages ago they said they would just make it better

[@sonlyme4445]

Pumping hundreds of millions into Witton would be a foolish move. The area cannot support a modern stadium.

[@nigelkennedy3427]

50000 is less than 10,000 more than what we already have - not worth it. UTV

[@jonathanhawkins2227]

Not a villa fan but they certainly need at least 80 k size stadium.

[@barriekennedy8367]

Heck out.

[@ianlewis7749]

While Heck is still around there will be no expansion...

[@eahennin]

Heck does what the owners direct him to do. You know, the owners who got Villa into a position to have 25,000 fans on the waiting list with top tier talent and coaching.

[@djsparkypacific5699]

I'd hate to leave Villa Park but unless the council and the travel networks commit to improve the infrastructure they give us no choice but to build a new ground outside of Aston and the community around the ground will die. We'll end up moving home games to Las Vegas 😂

[@pauljames907]

They’re trying to make the redeveloped stands look like the Main Stand and the Anfield Road Stand at Anfield. Can architects be charged with plagiarism? Villa should get their own style instead of copying others.

[@andrewevans6700]

You can just hear that this was written by ChatGPT 🙄

[@vickers2007]

The pound is strong against the dollar recently 😂

[@MIKE7-77]

The reality is that Villa don’t want any changes as they cancelled their expansion plans.

[@ben437]

They should just rebuild on the fields in-between bodymoor heath and the belfry. The land is waste now that HS2 I going through it. And Aston is a shithole

[@Craicfox161]

Bodymoor Heath Villa

[@oceanslevel5081]

They found a rare blue nose caterpillar there so that's a no go

[@aviationtrainsfc1]

1:02 holte end is a two tier stand mate

[@mickharrison9004]

Your rite the roads round there are a big joke total gridlock most of the time ,how they are going to upgrade these roads so that traffic ,can get to m6 more directly otherwise will be very grim .

[@andrew30m]

Sell it and build something near the airport and NEC

[@sonlyme4445]

Town centre - or there is little point.

[@busterruff9369]

Totally agree with ,the area around Villa park is shocking with litter everywhere it’s a dump ,also the new seats in the upper North Stand are terrible there’s no leg room and you are crammed in like sardines ,a new stadium at the NEC would be better,

[@mickharrison9004]

​@@busterruff9369just think how much security would be needed if villa fans ,had to go through Birmingham to there ground at nec police wouldn't be happy with that .

[@YoungWolf-g3t]

They desperately need to upgrade the Holte End

[@nottsvilla]

This is so out of date. It has has been suspended indefinitely by CEO Chris Heck. Irrelevant and fantastical

[@TheMagicianBee]

Villa aren’t moving forward with the new stand anymore. They’re just going to refine what they already have.

[@who9387]

1:06 "the Holte end is one of Europe's biggest SINGLE-TIER stand" - OH NO IT ISN'T - 2 (TWO) tiers you twit

[@barrycharlessearle5253]

No North Stand at present pleas check before releasing video.

[@andrewholdsworth4421]

This is not happening there are initial plans to make villa park bigger and better then this idea there is 35 thousand on a waiting list for season tickets the north stand will be done eventually but will most definitely be even bigger then Holt end because of the space behind the north stand . The Doug Elis will made much bigger to with the Holt done last witch will be one massive stand made higher .villa are just holding back because there priority is commercial growth first and what happens on the pitch villa park will be probably the best original stadium standing by the time they have finished

[@ByJimineeItsBREXIT-z2k]

Will there be a new North Stand?

[@DadAndDaughter8914]

Squashed ages ago this was

[@bobbyxdazzler]

No point in building a 50k plus stadium if they'd struggle to fill it.

[@markjess754]

It will still look outdated 😂

[@RoderickTyler-l9d]

Looks dated compaired to other Premier league grounds Spurs, Man City West Ham, Arsenal, now Everton lowest capacity

[@tomgillespie]

Yeah those soulless bowls look so much better! 😂🤡

[@davidjones992]

@@tomgillespie so Bernabéu, Allianz Arena, new Camp Nou along with Spurs, Everton etc are all soulless? You may prefer old style stadiums or even be jealous but that’s a sweeping statement Tom! I loved WHL and was so excited to see the new Tottenham Stadium, unfortunately my last UK visit was just prior to its opening 😞

[@MIKE7-77]

@@tomgillespie Are you jealous? 😂🤣The best and biggest clubs have bowl-shaped stadiums, Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Manchester City, Arsenal. Other big clubs like Manchester United and Chelsea are also planning bowl-shaped stadiums. The biggest clubs in Serie A and Bundesliga also have bowl-shaped stadiums. Fans of smaller clubs say these bowls are soulless out of jealousy and so-called self-esteem.

[@sutapachatterjee6654]

You miss Spurs. Spurs one of the biggest club of England❤​@@MIKE7-77

[@tomgillespie]

@@davidjones992 OP was talking about specific Premier League grounds. I didn't say all bowls are soulless.

[@nigelkennedy3427]

And global standards are irrelevant to a sport which is British...yes...BRITISH...UTV

[@astonvilla1able]

Get rid mr Heck

[@helenloughton2418]

Way too big never fill it clubs a joke😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@jamestonks3042]

And here you are watching a video about us 😂😂😂

[@markmorrid8144]

Hello Mr blue nose .

[@jkutv]

Shiiiiiii on the city Shiiiiiii on the city tonight ooh ah ah!!!!!! 🤡🤡 🤡

[@andybannister6217]

We know you're a nose because punctuation has seemingly passed you by. 😂

[@jkutv]

Bluenose scumma 😂 😂 😂 😂 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡

[@Porkcylinder]

This plan was revealed over two years ago

[@iainmaley3319]

Lots of teams have this kind of announcement, and then ..... nothing.

[@RoderickTyler-l9d]

Still say Villa are falling behind other more ambitíous clubs they call it progress not classic