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Premier League Stadiums by Capacity (2026/27)

The Premier League stadiums of 2026/27 range from Old Trafford at 74,233 down to the Vitality Stadium at 11,286 — a spread of just under 63,000 places. The table below ranks every ground by capacity and shows the club, city and the year each one opened.

All twenty grounds are listed, which took three routes and one correction. Neither Coventry City nor Hull City publishes a capacity anywhere reachable — both club sites render entirely in the browser, and Coventry's content API answers without carrying the figure. Both grounds came from somewhere other than the club. Hull City's is stated by Hull FC, the rugby league club that has shared the MKM Stadium since 2003. Coventry's is stated by the arena operator, a separate company from the club, as a "32,609-seat stadium bowl" — a figure not to be confused with the 8,000-capacity indoor arena in the same complex. Read both as seat counts rather than licensed matchday capacities. One number to distrust: 25,512 is widely quoted as the MKM Stadium's capacity, but Hull City's own records give it as the ground's highest attendance.

Full capacity table

Capacity figures are licensed totals: the maximum the safety authority permits for a Premier League match, including seats lost to segregation and the away allocation. They are not the same as attendance records, which predate all-seater conversion, and they shift year to year as clubs add rail seating or close a stand for works. That is why two published figures for the same ground can differ by a few hundred without either being wrong.

Premier League stadiums by capacity, 2026/27
Stadium Club City Capacity Opened
Old Trafford Manchester United Manchester 74,233 —
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium Tottenham Hotspur London 62,850 Premier League states 62,062. —
Anfield Liverpool Liverpool 61,276 1884
Emirates Stadium Arsenal London 60,704 2006
Etihad Stadium Manchester City Manchester 55,097 or more than 60,000 Changed in season —
Hill Dickinson Stadium Everton Liverpool 52,769 2025
St. James' Park Newcastle United Newcastle upon Tyne 52,305 1892
Stadium of Light Sunderland Sunderland 49,000 1997
Villa Park Aston Villa Birmingham 43,205 Premier League states 42,918. —
Stamford Bridge Chelsea London 40,022 1877
Elland Road Leeds United Leeds 37,645 1897
Coventry Building Society Arena Coventry City Coventry 32,609 2005
American Express Stadium Brighton & Hove Albion Brighton 31,800 or 31,876 or 32,000 or 32,500 Sources differ 2011
The City Ground Nottingham Forest West Bridgford 30,445 1898
Portman Road Ipswich Town Ipswich 30,056 —
Craven Cottage Fulham London 27,000 1896
Selhurst Park Crystal Palace London 26,000 1924
MKM Stadium Hull City Hull 25,586 2002
Gtech Community Stadium Brentford Brentford 17,250 2020
Vitality Stadium AFC Bournemouth Bournemouth 11,286 AFC Bournemouth, visiting supporters guide 2023/24 states 11,307. —

Capacities this page will not assert

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
The club's stadium page and the Premier League publish different figures for the same season. Tottenham Hotspur Football Club states 62,850. Premier League states 62,062.
Etihad Stadium
Not a disagreement: the capacity genuinely changed during 2025/26 when the North Stand expansion opened. Manchester City have not published an exact figure for the completed stand. Premier League states 55,097 (start of the 2025/26 season). Manchester City Football Club states more than 60,000 (after the North Stand expansion).
Villa Park
The club and the Premier League publish different figures for the same season. Aston Villa Football Club states 43,205. Premier League states 42,918.
American Express Stadium
Brighton & Hove Albion publish four capacities on their own domain and reconcile none of them. The sharpest contradiction is not between old and new figures but within one project: the additional 1901 Club area is stated to raise the ground to 32,000 in one club article and to 32,500 in another. No outside body is being disagreed with, and no figure is presented here as the answer. Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club states 31,800 (seats, stated as sitting within a total capacity of 32,500, from 2021/22). Brighton & Hove Albion, men's first-team history page states 31,876 (undated; the page is client-rendered and the figure could not be read directly). Brighton & Hove Albion, Life at Brighton states 32,000 (stated in the present tense as the stadium's capacity). Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club states 32,500 (total capacity after the additional 1901 Club area in the north stand).
Vitality Stadium
AFC Bournemouth publishes both figures itself, in two different documents. There is no outside party to defer to, so the club-primary rule cannot break this one. AFC Bournemouth, stadium page states 11,286. AFC Bournemouth, visiting supporters guide 2023/24 states 11,307 (2023/24 season).

Sources

Which is the biggest Premier League stadium?

Old Trafford is the biggest Premier League stadium at 74,233, around 11,000 more than the next ground on the list. It has held that position since 2006, when the north-west and north-east quadrants were filled in. No current top-flight ground has come within 10,000 of it since. The gap widened this summer without a seat being added: West Ham's relegation took the 62,500-capacity London Stadium out of the division, leaving Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and Anfield as the closest to Old Trafford in size.

Which is the smallest Premier League stadium?

The Vitality Stadium is the smallest Premier League stadium at 11,286, small enough to fit inside Old Trafford six times over. Bournemouth have played top-flight football in a ground built for the fourth tier, and the constraint is physical: the site is hemmed in by Kings Park on three sides, which is why the club has spent a decade weighing redevelopment against a move.

Stadium names and former names

Eight of the twenty grounds trade under a sponsor name, and the older name usually survives in match commentary and among supporters. The Etihad Stadium was the City of Manchester Stadium, built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games; Brighton's ground is the American Express Stadium commercially but Falmer Stadium in planning documents; Arsenal's Emirates Stadium sits on the Ashburton Grove site that gave the project its working name. Where a former name is still in common use, it appears on that ground's own page.

Where are the grounds?

London holds five of the twenty: Arsenal, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Fulham and Tottenham, with Brentford a sixth if you count the whole of Greater London rather than the postal town. The North West holds four, across Manchester and Liverpool. The remainder are spread thinly — one apiece in Newcastle, Sunderland, Leeds, Birmingham, Nottingham, Brighton, Ipswich, Hull, Coventry and Bournemouth. Relegation thinned both clusters at once this summer: West Ham took a London ground out of the division and Burnley a North West one, while Ipswich and Hull have pulled the map further east than it has been in years.

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New and upcoming stadiums

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Everton's move to the Hill Dickinson Stadium is the only completed relocation in this list, taking the club from 39,414 at Goodison Park to 52,888 on the Mersey waterfront. Manchester United have published plans for a 100,000-capacity replacement for Old Trafford, and Manchester City's north stand expansion lifts the Etihad above 60,000. None of that is reflected in the figures above until the seats exist and a licensed capacity is issued. Old Trafford's page tracks that project. A published figure can move without a brick being laid, which is why the concept behind each number is recorded alongside it in the table above.