Celtic should bid to host the 2027 Champions League final

When I did the tour I did come away thinking the changing rooms were very small and basic and the tunnel felt tiny.

Trivial things I know but would be nice to revamp it.

 

I was under the impression our short coming was the away dressing room and the access for players and ref.

I'm racking my brain, but think the dressing room situation is fine. Almost sure last time I was on the tour the guy mentioned something about both being similar - I could be making this up.

As for the access, it doesn't say they need to be within the stadium, but just secured and direct access. That could be something that is built out with the stadium, connected to the side big entrances to the pitch, where covered(indoor) and secure access can be created without needing to physically change the building itself.

After that, I'd assume we would meet everything else in that list, if not surely able to amend it.

Considering our custodians love to use the club as a show off thing and we have excess cash for no apparent reason, I'd not be against the upgrades if it meant we could host aome major european finals

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Serious question; we have such a high amount on the season ticket waiting list. Why has there been no talk of upgrading the stadium? And if so what is the realistic capacity we could upgrade to?

 

I'm down at the stadium most days during the week, either walking round or cycling past.

The inside is absolutely fine. The changing rooms have been upgraded, the tunnel walkway (out past the single corridor) has had a facelift.

Other than that (imo, of course) nothing needs drastically changed.

The exterior is a different story.

 

We've recently done up the dressing rooms but I'm uncertain whether this involved expanding them.

Something to bear in mind also is that the requirements for stage 5 used to include massive spaces for the referees' dressing room, 2 separate VIP sections capable of holding 200 each, 30+ working stations for media crews, etc. It could be that the North Stand just lacks the space for these facilities, or it could be we have since upgraded to meet them.

One thing that is potentially preventing us making such upgrades is that UEFA abolished category 5 while appearing to continue to give European finals only to teams that used to fit that category. So they presumably have internal criteria for meeting this standard, but publicly there's no clear criteria for assessment for a CL final. We technically already meet it by being category 4 but so do Hearts and they're not getting one any time soon.

It's something that I think could reasonably be asked at an investor meeting as I can't imagine anyone but the higher-ups have a clue how realistic hosting a CL final is for us.

 

Changing rooms have been updated but sill small in comparison to other elite stadia..

The inside has all had various face-lifts over the years, but that's all we're able to do with it.. the old building restricts it.

The last stadium tour I went on, I really noticed how much it needed pulled down and rebuilt..

 

I think they're probably waiting on the right economic conditions before going ahead with anything. I reckon if they could get a guaranteed run at the UCL for an extended period they would probably pull the trigger on it.

It's something I'm really hoping they can go ahead with in the near future, I just hope they get it right. They need to get as much in there as possible in terms of hospitality and things like that and really move the club forward in that regard.

 

Maybe one of the reasons, we're hoarding cash.

 

I think having cash helps but this type of development I would've thought could be funded with finance since it will generate fairly predictable amount of income once it's done.

 

First thing I would do would be make the appearance better on the way in from the retail park side. Bit of a dump.

 

Dam right we should, we will be going for 3 Champions Leagues in a row!

 

Well, unless we spend millions upon millions that we really do not need to do knocking down and replacing the stadium or relocating, all we can do is upgrade.

Again, down to opinion, but I * love CP the way it is - layout wise.

 

Paint the poles. Simple.

 

people lost their * because lawwell spent millions on disco lights while trying to penny pinch on McGinn transfer and McGinn has shone in epl since, good reason to lose our * Tim

 

I love it too.. but it definitely could be improved upon.

 

Not sure if this is what you meant, but it's a common misconception that Celtic Park is a listed building. This is from the Historic Scotland listed building search portal. The necropolis is listed and Parkhead is a listed conservation area, but Celtic Park lies outside it and there is no marker indicating a listed structure on any of its stands.



We could tear the Main Stand down tomorrow and start from scratch if we wanted to. I'm not saying we should do that, but we don't necessarily have to work around the existing structure of the Main Stand if it makes improving the stadium impossible or overly costly.

 

Aye, you've misunderstood.. I know we could tear it down and rebuild it.. but what I meant is we can upgrade/change the inside of the current structure but we can only do so much with it as it is still essentially the same building as it was when it was built.

 

If thats what you believe fair enough mate.

 

Please do enlighten us.

 

Fair enough. I've no idea how much the inside can be changed, though much of it does look pretty solid.