{"id":608901,"date":"2026-05-28T18:09:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/608901\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T18:09:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:09:28","slug":"arsenal-planning-renovation-of-emirates-stadium-after-premier-league-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/608901\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal planning renovation of Emirates Stadium after Premier League triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Arsenal<\/a> are currently \u201cputting together a plan\u201d to renovate the Emirates Stadium<\/a>, with chief executive Richard Garlick leading talks, according to co-chair Josh Kroenke<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The new English champions<\/a> have been considering some kind of evolution for a few years, especially since the recent rebirth of the club has meant they could easily sell tens of thousands more tickets than the current 60,704 capacity.<\/p>\n

The stadium is already 20 years old<\/a> and now operates in a different financial world to when it opened.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Kroenkes are planning an Emirates Stadium renovation (Getty)<\/p>\n

\u201cRich Garlick is leading those conversations on our end right now,\u201d Kroenke said in a sit-down with media. \u201cWe have several new members of the board that are plugged into that, that do those operations for us in the States. They\u2019re putting together a plan right now to renovate the Emirates<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re starting these exercises with some of our advisers but the Emirates has been an amazing stadium for us. I think we took it to a different level this year. I think that\u2019s credit to Mikel [Arteta] and those players. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut there\u2019s some character that I want to make sure we\u2019re preserving and bringing back to the ground as well. I think we can do that in a very elegant manner that\u2019s really to the benefit of Arsenal. We do this stuff in the States in our facilities and our teams. We take great pride in it so I think we have a chance to come over and really give the Arsenal supporters an elevated matchday experience from where they are right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ArsenalArsenal celebrated their first Premier League title for 22 years last week (Getty)<\/p>\n

Asked whether there may be some lessons from the high-tech SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, which the Kroenkes had built for their NFL franchise, the LA Rams<\/a>, Kroenke said \u201cthat\u2019s still to be determined\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had different comments from people over the years about the walls of Highbury, the character of what that building was,\u201d he added. \u201cThe Emirates is obviously a totally different animal but I\u2019ve made that comment to a few people and they\u2019ve asked me that same question. <\/p>\n

\u201cI say I want to leave it up to our supporters and people that have experienced that to really tell me what that means. So we\u2019re still sifting through that but I do want Arsenal fans to know this is a very modern facility but also has a character. Try to figure out a way to bring and preserve some of the character of old English style football as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

One plan that has been discussed over the past few years is to raise the four corners, but the club have been conscious of temporarily sacrificing home advantage by playing games in an alternative like Wembley.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Kroenkes may be able to learn lessons from building Sofi Stadium in Los Angeles (Getty)<\/p>\n

Kroenke meanwhile stated that the title win hasn\u2019t changed transfer plans \u2013 but that it may open up new opportunities.<\/p>\n

As reported previously by The Independent<\/a>, Arsenal want to bring in a left-sided player and at least two other signings, with Atletico Madrid\u2019s Julian Alvarez, Aston Villa\u2019s Morgan Rogers and Bournemouth\u2019s Junior Kroupi among the main targets.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I don\u2019t think so,\u201d Kroenke said, when asked if Arsenal would go even bigger after winning the league. \u201cWe\u2019ve had some conversations about different things and how they\u2019re starting to take shape. But I think it\u2019s a good boost and a great question, and maybe there is some opportunity that we\u2019re not aware of that comes out of this success. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut I think win or lose, our plans were our plans. And we were going to continue to do that even if the results hadn\u2019t been we wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[207317,207315,183800,6494,309,192300,218,20171,183804,11237,184837,183803,207316,6487,195600,1671,217,101,183798,207313,397,207314,56,184470,54,55,16097],"class_list":["post-608901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-arsenal-stadium-highbury","tag-arsenal-w-f-c","tag-club-soccer","tag-color-image","tag-england","tag-first-leg","tag-football","tag-former","tag-general-view","tag-horizontal","tag-london-england","tag-match-sport","tag-ol-lyonnes","tag-photography","tag-semifinal-round","tag-soccer","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-stadium","tag-the-emirates-stadium","tag-uefa-champions-league","tag-uefa-womens-champions-league","tag-uk","tag-union-of-european-football-associations","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-womens-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}