Molineux in line for revamp

Saturday 10th November 2007, 11:48AM GMT.

wd716751.jpgMolineux could be redeveloped into a stadium with a capacity of around 40,000, it was revealed today.

Wolves want to transform the city centre ground into a venue fit for Premiership football.

The plans are expected to include adding another tier to either the South Bank or North Bank stands as well as filling in the corners of the ground.

The club’s millionaire owner Steve Morgan today said he is “considering everything” as the club looks into expansion plans.

But he insisted moving away from the club’s city centre home is not on the agenda. The club is anxious not to set a timetable for the redevelopment but Mr Morgan today revealed he has commissioned specialist teams to look into all options.

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wd716751.jpgMolineux could be redeveloped into a stadium with a capacity of around 40,000, it was revealed today.

Wolves want to transform the city centre ground into a venue fit for Premiership football.

The plans are expected to include adding another tier to either the South Bank or North Bank stands as well as filling in the corners of the ground.

The club’s millionaire owner Steve Morgan today said he is “considering everything” as the club looks into expansion plans.

But he insisted moving away from the club’s city centre home is not on the agenda. The club is anxious not to set a timetable for the redevelopment but Mr Morgan today revealed he has commissioned specialist teams to look into all options.

The scale and speed of the expansion plans will depend on if and when Wolves make it into the Premiership.

“We’re just looking at one or two possibilities,” Mr Morgan said.

“Clearly from a business perspective if we got into the Premiership the current stadium would be too small.

“We do need to be looking into options at the moment but it’s not a story of ‘plans for new stadium’ because we’re a long, long way from that.”

Transforming or moving the corporate boxes is another possibility as Mr Morgan looks to maximise the club’s business opportunities.

He said: “It is not next week, not next month, it’s in the very early days. But it would be remiss of us if we didn’t consider everything.”

Property developer Mr Morgan made his fortune from setting up property development company Redrow and has taken a keen interest in stadium issues since taking control in August.

If the club did press ahead with plans to renovate Molineux it would be the first stadium revamp since Sir Jack Hayward took over back in 1990 and transformed the ground into today’s 28,500 all-seater venue.

After the John Ireland Stand – now renamed after Steve Bull – was built in 1979, Sir Jack was the driving force behind completing the ground and in 1992 he erected the Stan Cullis Stand on the site of the North Bank.

That was followed by the Jack Harris stand and the main Billy Wright stand.


  1. 1
    andy jones

    great news would love to see it expanded and get back where we really belong

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  2. 2
    northbankgiveusasong

    Make the tickets cheper £29 in Billy Wright no wonder its never full.

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  3. 3
    PJW Holland

    Didn’t it used to hold over 60,000 almost every week?

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  4. 4
    steven smith

    wolves are a very good team its about time 4 a revamp first class news cant wait………….

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  5. 5
    steven smith

    ps i hope the price of tickets go down in price as im unable to go to a match at moment keep on winning wolves u can do it from no 1 fan

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  6. 6
    mark

    they will never fill it

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  7. 7
    U2 Wolf

    It would be full every week if it wasn’t for high admission prices. Mr Morgan please don’t pric ethe average fan out of attending games.

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  8. 8
    Wolves Loyal

    Keep the prices down and it will be full everyweek.

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  9. 9
    darren jeffs

    do we need a stadium which holds 40.000,we have a stadium at the moment what we cant fill, is something to do with the tickets being over priced, reduce the prices so the average working man can afford to go

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  10. 10
    paul

    ps good news.about it wolves r has good has the villa.

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  11. 11
    shaun nicholls

    great news cant wait all we need now is get in premierleague

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  12. 12
    stu

    40,000 capacity at the wolves? why? or is to to accommodate the Baggies fans when we play them because with a fan base like the wolves they’d be hard pushed to fill a phone box

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  13. 13
    besty

    I’VE HEARD WE’RE BUYING 5,000 SEATS OFF THE BOGGIES AS NEW NEVER BEEN USED,BUT BEING HONEST IF MR MORGAN IS PLANNING A PREM SURGE THEN LETS HOPE THE PLAYERS ON THE PITCH DO THE BIZZ,WE COULD BE UP THERE WITH THE VILLA.

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  14. 14
    SUPERSTARDJWOLVES

    Wolves proved that the season we were in the prem we sold out more or less every single week, those additional uncovered seats certainly helped too and showed that wolves are a massive MASSIVE club, on par with Villa.

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  15. 15
    Big L

    I would have thought a rebuild of the Steve Bull stand would be a better option. The existing stand is a disgrace – access into, out of, and around the stand is dreadful. Flatten the thing and start again.

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  16. 16
    mike perry

    why not flatten the whole thing and forget about it?

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  17. 17
    tettenhall wolf

    Should move the ground out of town to stop town getting smashed up,ease traffic congestion and make it 60000 capacity.give us decent football at realistic prices and we would fill it.1000000 lined the streets when we got promoted remember.

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  18. 18
    glynis

    when they do it move it out of town so people who have been at work all day can get home on time.

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  19. 19
    you are silly

    It is the most trouble making game around and needs to be gone for good

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