Premier League club reach new milestone in £300m stadium expansion with special ‘bolt-on’ project set to boost capacity

MANCHESTER CITY person reached a caller milestone successful its £300MILLION enlargement of the Etihad Stadium.

The Premier League champions are moving connected a caller North Stand to beryllium integrated with the remainder of the ground.

The enlargement task is expected to summation capableness to astir 62,000 with 7,900 caller seats.

Contractor John Sisk & Son started the steelwork successful May and person present officially started attaching the bolt work.

This volition spot the caller operation link to the existing stadium.

Man City are hopeful of having the caller stands unfastened to fans by the mediate of the 2025/26 season.

It is claimed that the strategy volition "promise to heighten the instrumentality experience".

This volition beryllium done with the inclusion of the 3,000-capacity instrumentality zone.

The plans besides see the operation of a 400-bed edifice arsenic good arsenic a caller nine store and a museum.

The enactment is besides thought to person promised a "significant economical boost done occupation instauration and improvement successful the community".

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To people the juncture the Citizens invited the Cartwright household to perceive astir the project.

The household has 4 generations who person supported the nine since the 1960s.

The household includes a erstwhile City leader successful Gary Owen who played for the nine betwixt 1975 and 1979.

Director of Infrastructure Development Ed Dalton said: "It’s an breathtaking infinitesimal successful our gathering programme for the caller alloy operation to beryllium attached and bolted to the existing North Stand.

"Fans and visitors tin spot the extended precocious tier progressing which truly gives a consciousness of the standard of the enlargement and however the inclusion of 3,000 caller obstruction seats volition adhd to the electrical ambiance connected matchdays.

“Hosting a peculiar time for the Cartwright family, who person been present for galore of the large moments astatine the Etihad Stadium and are excited to ticker galore much successful the future, was a fitting mode to admit the symbolic joining of the aged and the new.

"Work is progressing astatine gait connected the development, and we’re looking guardant to marking much milestones successful the coming months earlier we invited fans into the expanded North Stand during the 2025-26 season."

The basal volition besides see a caller entity bar, which volition place the pitch.

There volition besides beryllium a transportation and stadium extortion locomotion acquisition for fans.

Man City person been astatine the Etihad Stadium since ditching Maine Road successful the 2003/04 season.

The archetypal capableness of the crushed was 38,000 but previous enactment has risen the fig to 53,400.

And the caller concern isn't conscionable welcomed, but possibly necessary.

Supporters successful the crushed for City's 2-2 gully with Arsenal last play were soaked aft a leak successful the extortion astatine the Etihad poured down onto the crowd.

Meanwhile Premier League rivals Arsenal are exploring ways to summation the Emirates capableness to 80,000.