Premier League club announces 23,000-seater new stadium plan to fulfil Champions League ambition

BOURNEMOUTH person announced their program to physique a 23,000-seater stadium to fulfil their Champions League ambitions.

The Cherries person gone from spot to spot since appointing Andoni Iraola arsenic their manager 18 months ago.

Bournemouth prevarication 7th successful the array with 11 wins and 5 defeats from 23 matches this season.

Iraola’s men blasted 5 past Nottingham Forest’s mean defence past weekend.

And 7 days earlier they secured an awesome 4-1 triumph distant astatine high-flying Newcastle.

The Cherries person done each this with a severely depleted squad afloat of injuries.

But fans are starting to imagination of a daze propulsion for Champions League football.

And nine chiefs are already mounting retired plans to instrumentality Bournemouth to the adjacent level.

American businessman Bill Foley took implicit the south-coast nine successful 2022 arsenic portion of his Black Knight group’s multi-team ownership strategy.

As good arsenic reversing Bournemouth’s fortunes connected the tract portion landing a apical manager successful Iraola, Foley and Co are present adjacent to finishing an elite caller grooming ground.

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But the biggest alteration is acceptable to travel with a marque caller stadium, with plans astatine an precocious signifier to treble the capableness of Bournemouth’s existent ground.

The Cherries person been playing astatine the Vitality Stadium, different known arsenic Dean Court, since 1910.

The historical crushed packs successful implicit 11,000 fans for each game.

But plans are present afoot to sound it down and physique a caller stadium implicit the aforesaid abstraction portion boosting capableness to implicit 23,000.

The surge successful tickets sold volition springiness Bournemouth a immense fiscal boost, thereby helping them pull amended players and yet ace the Premier League’s apical four.

Foley told Men successful Blazers via the Athletic: “We person a waiting database of 15 oregon 16,000 radical that privation tickets, truthful we’re not going to person occupation filling the stadium.

“We’re a small up of schedule. I thought we’d beryllium successful Europe adjacent year. We whitethorn person a accidental this twelvemonth if we tin support going and support connected playing well.

“If we conscionable get fortunate connected injuries and get these guys steadfast the 2nd fractional of the season, we should beryllium precise successful.

“If we’re successful, we volition play successful Europe. The Champions League? That’s my dream.”