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Premier League club announces 23,000-seater new stadium plan to fulfil Champions League ambition
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BOURNEMOUTH have announced their plan to build a 23,000-seater stadium to fulfil their Champions League ambitions.
The Cherries have gone from strength to strength since appointing Andoni Iraola as their manager 18 months ago.
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Bournemouth lie 7th in the table with 11 wins and five defeats from 23 matches this season.
Iraola’s men blasted five past Nottingham Forest’s mean defence last weekend.
And seven days earlier they secured an impressive 4-1 win away at high-flying Newcastle.
The Cherries have done all this with a severely depleted squad full of injuries.
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But fans are starting to dream of a shock push for Champions League football.
And club chiefs are already setting out plans to take Bournemouth to the next level.
American businessman Bill Foley took over the south-coast club in 2022 as part of his Black Knight group’s multi-team ownership strategy.
As well as reversing Bournemouth’s fortunes on the field while landing a top coach in Iraola, Foley and Co are now close to finishing an elite new training ground.
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But the biggest change is set to come with a brand new stadium, with plans at an advanced stage to double the capacity of Bournemouth’s current ground.
The Cherries have been playing at the Vitality Stadium, otherwise known as Dean Court, since 1910.
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The historic ground packs in over 11,000 fans for each game.
But plans are now afoot to knock it down and build a new stadium over the same space while boosting capacity to over 23,000.
The surge in tickets sold will give Bournemouth a huge financial boost, thereby helping them attract better players and eventually crack the Premier League’s top four.
Foley told Men in Blazers via the : “We have a waiting list of 15 or 16,000 people that want tickets, so we’re not going to have trouble filling the stadium.
“We’re a little ahead of schedule. I thought we’d be in Europe next year. We may have a chance this year if we can keep going and keep on playing well.
“If we just get lucky on injuries and get these guys healthy the second half of the season, we should be very successful.
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“If we’re successful, we will play in Europe. The Champions League? That’s my dream.”
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