The Emirates Stadium is already among the best Premier League grounds, but Arsenal are said to be planning some exciting new developments for their home venue. The Gunners, however, could be forced to spend some time playing at Wembley during the renovations.
Mikel Arteta’s side are flying high domestically as they are the current favourites to win their first league title since 2004. They also have a Carabao Cup final to come later in March, with Manchester City their opponents.
While things are going well on the pitch, it may soon be an opportune time to develop the club’s home stadium. The club recently reported that revenue for 2024/25 was a record of £691 million, thanks to the team’s football performance combining with the club’s commercial strategy.
Amid all this, talk has emerged about Arsenal looking to upgrade the size of their stadium to one of the biggest in England, while also turning the Emirates into something like the ‘ABBA Voyage experience in London’.
Arsenal’s Stadium Could Get Cosm Technolog
Speaking recently to Arsenal Insider, finance expert Kieran Maguire has tipped the Gunners to try and create an immersive reality venue within the stadium when they expand the Emirates.
Club owner Stan Kroenke brought in Cosm to build one of their shared reality screening centres at SoFi Stadium’s complex in Los Angeles. This allows fans to get together remotely to watch events as though they were in the stadium itself.
Several Arsenal matches have been screened at Cosm, and the company was valued at around £750m in their last funding round. As per Maguire, the Emirates could be the first European venue to enjoy the technology. He explained:
“It’s all about the experience. The problem with having control of a global brand like Arsenal is that you have potentially hundreds of millions of fans but a stadium that accommodates just over 60,000. So you can’t get the fans to the stadium, but can you get the stadium to the fans? With this kind of device, yes, you can.
“I’ve spoken to investment bankers who want to get this product at places like Arsenal. They want it to be like the ABBA Voyage experience in London – you go along and watch avatars play football being beamed from a stadium in another continent. It’s an immersive, three-dimensional, communal experience.
“You want that shared experience. That’s why we go to the football. Using immersive technologies to accommodate that is just the logical next step. So I absolutely think we’re likely to see something like this at the Emirates Stadium once the expansion gets the go-ahead.”
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In late 2025, it emerged that Arsenal were looking to update the Emirates. According to reports, the stadium could expand its current 60,700 capacity to over 70,000 seats.
Biggest Premier League Stadiums (*subject to renovation plans)
Rank
Stadium
Capacity
Club
1.
Old Trafford
74,310
Manchester United
2.
Emirates Stadium*
70,000
Arsenal
3.
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
62,850
Tottenham Hotspur
4.
London Stadium
62,500
West Ham
5.
Anfield
61,276
Liverpool
6.
Emirates Stadium (current)
60,704
Arsenal
7.
Etihad Stadium
53,400
Manchester City
8.
Hill Dickinson Stadium
52,769
Everton
9.
St James’ Park
52,305
Newcastle United
10.
Stadium of Light
48,707
Sunderland
As things stand, the only stadium bigger in London is Wembley, which holds 90,000. Ironically, the Gunners could be forced to move into the national stadium as a result of the work. Rivals Tottenham had to do the same for almost two seasons, paying around £15m, while their stadium was being built.
It’s said that Arsenal have the option to change the gradient of the stands, while they are capable of adapting the seating plan to fit in more fans, in a move they believe could see them earn tens of millions of pounds in extra annual revenue. Adding to the rumours, it’s believed that the Gunners turned down the option to host games during Euro 2028 as changes could conceivably be underway at that point.
If expanded to 70,000 seats, the Emirates would become the UK’s fourth-biggest football stadium behind Wembley Stadium (90,000), Old Trafford (74,310), and the Principality Stadium (73,931). In Premier League terms, it would rank second for size.