Arsenal could be set to upgrade their stadium, with plans afoot to increase their matchday revenue. The team left the iconic Highbury in 2006 after 93 years, moving down the road to a new ground at Ashburton Grove. The Emirates Stadium has since become a staple of Premier League football.
But with tickets at the Emirates Stadium hard to acquire and the likes of Tottenham and West Ham United since moving into state-of-the-art venues of their own, there’s a fear that Arsenal could be left behind.
According to The Times, Arsenal have begun exploring ways that they can expand and upgrade their 18-year-old stadium, in order to compete with more modern facilities in the Premier League.
When the Emirates Stadium opened at the start of the 2006/07 season, the venue was state-of-the-art – and has since hosted concerts and, intriguingly, a number of friendlies for the Brazil national team. But aside from Arsenal having a ceiling on their matchday revenue at current, there are simpler issues on which the Gunners are struggling to compete with the likes of the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
