West Ham Co-chairman David Gold has confirmed 6,000 extra seats at the Olympic Stadium could be ready for this coming season.
In response to our story yesterday Gold confirmed on twitter:
“Yes, it’s possible that the capacity of the new stadium will rise to 60,000 for the start of the new season. dg”
“The seats are already there all we need is planning. dg”
He also confirmed season ticket have not sold out yet.
“Season tickets have not sold out as we are still processing the priority list. It is important to be on the list. dg”
Yesterday ClaretandHugh revealed that the club are hoping they can get the Olympic Stadium capacity increased to 60,000 by the start of their first season.
The club expect to sell out around 42,000 season tickets with those set aside for Corporate purposes, away fans and walk-up people on the day adding another 12,000.
However, there are still around 20,000 on the Priority List and the club is ready to go for another 6,000 seats at the stadium.
ClaretandHugh was told exclusively: “We have an automatic right to apply for them and we shall be doing so. It needs planning permission but that shouldn’t be a problem. It’s entirely realistic and we shall be doing it and hopefully we could have the situation resolved in time for next season.”
mentioned on another article, I was in the reservation centre on Saturday and they told me there were around 4500 season tickets left for sale, and around 28000 on the waiting list.
has been mentioned that the end figure could eventually rise to 66.000, with the neccessary planning permission 71.000 even.