Luton Town's Kenilworth Road - the ground where you famously have to walk through people's back gardens to get into the away stand is now, unbelievably, a Premier League stadium - but the club has quite the upgrade job on their hands 🏟🤯
Luton Town will have to splash the cash on Kenilworth Road after securing promotion to theThe Hatters beat Coventry City 6-5 on penalties in the Championship Play-Off final on Saturday evening after a 1-1 draw atIt is the first time that Luton will compete in the Premier League and the first time they have been in the top flight since 1992, but it does mean that they will have to spend some money before they can get involved.
With a capacity of just 10,356, Kenilworth Road was the smallest ground in the Championship, so will be dwarved by the enormous stadia in the Premier League. It is not the size that is the issue, though, with the floodlights needing to be improved, space for broadcasters increased, wooden seats upgraded and the Executive Boxes Stand significantly revamped, to the extend where it will be pretty much rebuilt.
The club's CEO, Gary Sweet, said the upgrades would cost around £10m to reach the appropriate standards. 'If ignored now, Kenilworth Road would be incompliant and sub-standard, not just quaint,' Sweet said last year, via the'We've got around £8m, maybe £10m of improvements to do, which is pretty much rebuilding one stand in about less than three months, which is some task that we've got on our hands.
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