Inside Chelsea’s £1 5B Stadium Upgrade

When Roman Abramovich took over Chelsea in 2003 and turned them into one of the world’s top football teams, he probably never thought their toughest challenge wouldn’t be on the field but under it. Stamford Bridge, Chelsea’s home since the club started, is now holding them back. It has only 41,000 seats, squeezed into a busy part of West London, and that’s a problem for a club with big dreams.

Now, Chelsea’s new American owners face a massive £1.5 billion choice that could change English football forever. Should they fix their old stadium, build a brand-new one, or try something completely wild - a floating stadium on the River Thames?

Inside Chelsea’s £1 5B Stadium Upgrade

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[eddiehockley]

Stamford Bridge 1876, is the oldest ground in the PL and the 3rd oldest football stadium in the world.
After Bramall lane [ Sheff Unt] and Deepdale ( Preston North End). Although it was an athletic stadium until 1904.

[kfan]

Rebuild Stamford Bridge is surely the only sensible option. Identity = DNA

[MIKE-]

Chelsea and Italy, the most unlikely place in the world to build a new stadium

[stelsDM]

We need a stadium with 80 000-90 000 seats

[the_one]

Chelsea need to build a minimum 80k stadium, this 60k number is 20 years too late…

If they can’t make stamford bridge 80k, they should build a huge stadium at earls court

[RainingFlow]

Another problem with fulham and chelsea is that land value in those neighbourhood is stupid expensive. Its honestly better to build on earls court but I understand the history. But whats the point of history is you had to spend so much you will barely have any more to compete.

[ryadhasanahmed]

Gonna go Stamford Bridge for the first time as an away fan for the Chelsea FCW vs Arsenal FCW game in 26th January 2025

[joseteixeira]

Chelsea should re locate to Earls Court which solves the problems of expensive renovations of the old Stadium with only 60, 000 seats in the long term is not ideal and would take much longer to redevelopment of the Bridge.
By re locating to Earls Court Chelsea could use the stadium during development of the new stadium at Earls Court solving that problem. History is just that and Chelsea is Chelsea wherever they play Astana, White heart Lane or wherever it's always Chelsea and Erals Court would be ideal futuristic stadium with 89, 000 seater capacity for less than 1.5 billion. Do the math Chelsea so called fans and owners of Stamford Bridge, Stop holding the team and club back!

[ThePappsta]

Its a difficult one to be honest. Personally for me i think the best thing is to relocate, as mentioned there are a couple of potential sites not too far away the earls court one would be better potentially as its pretty much around the corner. A new location would allow a stadium to be built without as many restrictions as redeveloping Stamford bridge would, one of the main costs being building over existing train lines being quite costly i imagine.

I think this would also give all Chelsea fans an opportunity to have a proper send off to the club's home. It will be sad but playing away for 5 years will financially impact Chelsea anyway as they'll probably be paying ridiculous rent.

[StormbringerT]

We could easily just renovate in the same way Barcelona are with the Camp Nou. Remove the roof and knock down the hotel, build all the stands up to the same level. 3rd tier all round. New more spacious seats and new facilities within. Could be done in 2 seasons maximum, unlike a full demolition and rebuild would be 4-5 years. Which is too long away.

[funcik]

Best to move to Earl's court. Bigger stadium from the scratch. No issue of moving out for some time. Good transport connections.

[ka]

We need a much bigger Stadium, 60k Stadium is too small for a Wold Class Football Club like us. Even our little boy Tottenham and little son West ham has bigger/modern Stadium, that's 100% unacceptable

[DannyPhantom]

Earl's court seems to be the best option for us, so we can build a brand new 80-90k seater stadium and play at the bridge while the construction

[terrymorton]

Have you ever, ever tried to get a ticket, there might be a chance at 70k stadium or 80k 60k is under what Id want to be fair.

[blues]

i'am from norway, love to visit chelsea stadium..

[leskellett]

A new state of the art stadium, better that Arsenal’s or Spur’s, we can’t let old thinking of ‘intimate atmosphere’ dictate the clubs financial future, we need to generate income from the stadium on a daily basis, ( concerts, corporate gigs, Comic-Con, whatever works).. soo, knock the stadium down and rebuild. Relocate to Wembley for a few years, fans will bitch & moan for a while, but you can reduce ticket prices, as Wembley holds more than twice as many fans, that’ll ease the change… oh!, AND BRING BACK ROMAN 😊

[FrozenHero]

The REAL delay in this development is the internal feud between Bohley's BlueCo. and co-owner Clearlake Capital. By the time that gets resolved, Earls Court will have been fully redeveloped.

[garyallsopp]

They need to get on with it they are getting left behind every other big club .

[benclarke]

When I was going regularly as a young hoolifan in the late sixties we hade 60 thousand at times but probably fourty thousand were standing up wedged together like Sardines. Earl’s Court would have been the best option if Abramovich had bought that site could have been built while staying at the bridge. We also must incorporate safe standing at grounds the atmosphere is so much better. Chelsea fans only seem to really sing at away grounds. Maybe it’s come From the fact that before Bates redevelopment there was little cover so it was really hard to create an atmosphere. Back in those early days of my Chelsea addiction it was a cheap one 2/6 (12.5 pence) for under sixteens to get in or a shilling if you went to the right turnstile and the operator let you jump over. They reckoned that Mears family had a turnstile that had no counter on it and the gate receipts from it went directly to them

[kevinblakey]

I feel it's has to be Earls Court, build a 70.000 capacity stadium. Sell the land that Stamford Bridge sits on for more than 1.5b and move, it's only a mile away and has an underground station aswell.