Stadium League

Omitting London and Birmingham clubs (they are to close to make a fair comparison) this is the league table for stadium size per head of local population according to the 2011 Census (mostly) leaving PAFC in 61st position and based on a 17,000 capacity.

Considering that PAFC has the largest "potential" catchment area in the country it makes tearful reading made even worse with both Torquay and Exeter having larger stadiums per head.

It can be nitpicked but by and large it provides a reasonable and accurate topic for debate.

1 Tranmere Rovers
2 Bradford City
3 Wigan Athletic
4 Burnley
5 Manchester United
6 Blackburn Rovers
7 Bury
8 Middlesbrough
9 Yeovil Town
10 Ipswich Town
11 Stoke City
12 Preston North End
13 Norwich City
14 Nottingham Forest
15 Liverpool
16 Newcastle United
17 Watford
18 Manchester City
19 Fleetwood Town
20 Burton Albion
21 Sunderland
22 Carlisle United
24 Huddersfield Town
25 Milton Keynes Dons
26 Port Vale
27 Crewe Alexandra
28 Accrington Stanley
29 Notts County
30 Shrewsbury Town
31 Southampton
32 Chesterfield
33 Derby County
34 Aldershot Town
35 Scunthorpe United
36 Blackpool
37 Doncaster Rovers
38 Barnsley
39 Brighton & Hove Albion
40 Rochdale
41 Coventry City
42 Leicester City
43 Reading
44 Oldham Athletic
45 Rotherham United
46 Bolton Wanderers
47 Bristol City
48 Hull City
49 Portsmouth
50 Torquay United
51 Oxford United
52 Hartlepool United
53 Swansea City
54 Peterborough United
55 Stevenage
56 Cardiff City
57 Swindon Town
58 Exeter City
59 Sheffield Wednesday
60 Southend United
61 Plymouth Argyle
62 Cheltenham Town
63 Sheffield United
64 Bournemouth
65 Colchester United
66 Crawley Town
67 Bristol Rovers
68 Leeds United
69 York City
70 Northampton Town

Sterling work, Gob. How long did that take you?

bloody ages and a long spread sheet!

Interesting stuff though, amazed to see Tranmere at the top, they pretty much offer everyone that lives in Tranmere a seat in the stadium if they want it.

And look at Yeovil!!

I'd imagine Andy Symons would appreciate a copy of that spreadsheet ...

Yup, Andy will get it. There's a few more interesting things to add yet but it'll be making its way across to Andy and a few others.

i would call you a beard but i wont lol

just shows how out of touch james brent is if he thinks a city like Plymouth should have a smaller stand.

Keep it close GOB, the dogs of war will be after it.

Trouble is a lot of them would be satisfied with 61st place.

PlymptonPilgrim wrote:

Keep it close GOB, the dogs of war will be after it.

Trouble is a lot of them would be satisfied with 61st place.

61st? They'd see it as a triumph that we're not 92nd!

Lol.

Peggy * wrote:

PlymptonPilgrim wrote:

Keep it close GOB, the dogs of war will be after it.

Trouble is a lot of them would be satisfied with 61st place.

61st? They'd see it as a triumph that we're not 92nd!

look how far we've come

Good work GOB.

Barring Leeds, the only other two clubs of a respectable size around us share the same city.

I wouldn't compare us to either Lids or the Sheffield clubs, but neither would I compare us to Colchester or Cheltnum...

For Cities with two clubs I halved the population figure so that each club was compared equally, ie Liverpool and Everton, Man U and Man City and Sheff Wed and United.

When Bristol Rovers eventually move on to a bigger stadium as they hope and, Leeds make the same move as they hope, we'll sink even lower down that table.

Out of interest GOB, where would we sit in the table with the sought after 20k capacity ?

Amazing really considering Peter Jones and others convinced PCC that they simply must buy back the stadium so that under Brent's vision Plymouth can one day boast a football club befitting of a sleeping behemoth of a regenerating metropolis.

Gob - could you forward the spreadsheet to [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] ?

Would be very much appreciated.

Nice work Gob

Will tomorrow AFT, there's a couple of minor errors and a few things to add first.

3 weeks till the council make their decision?
i would like to think the AFT have a few aces up their sleeves

Is anybody else concerned that Gob's spent most of the weekend on this when he could have been fiddling with his carbs?

That's dedication, that is

punchdrunk wrote:

3 weeks till the council make their decision?
i would like to think the AFT have a few aces up their sleeves

Where does this come from? They haven't even submitted a planning application yet, and they take a couple of months at least to go through.

gob needs a treat for his hard work...

click the link gob and enjoy

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21,700-seat stadium for Rovers, we will drop in position by 2015/16.



Rovers new stadium

Angry of Manchester wrote:

gob needs a treat for his hard work...

click the link gob and enjoy

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That just made my day 30 seconds!

Northampton Town plan to double the size of their capacity, meanwhile PAFC will be lowering its capacity.

Northampton Town