Gtech Community Stadium

The Gtech Community Stadium holds 17,250, which makes it the second smallest ground in the Premier League behind Bournemouth. Brentford state that figure in an unusual unit — fans, not seats — and away supporters are given six blocks of the East Stand, reached through turnstiles H, G and F.

Capacity — 17,250 fans, and why the word matters

Brentford describe the ground as having a capacity of 17,250 fans. Almost every other English club counts in seats. The distinction is not pedantry at a ground with barrier seating in it: a seat count and a permitted number of people can come apart once parts of a stand are licensed for standing, and a club that says "fans" is describing how many people it may admit rather than how many chairs it has bolted down. The number is the same either way today, but the concept behind it is the thing worth carrying, and it is what this site records.

For scale, only the Vitality Stadium at 11,286 is smaller in the division, and the gap between Brentford and the next ground up is wider than the gap between Brentford and Bournemouth. This is a small stadium by Premier League standards and a modern one — it opened in 2020, and it is the only ground in the division built in the last decade other than Everton's.

Where do away fans sit at the Gtech?

Visiting supporters are located in the East Stand, in blocks N120, E117, E116, E218, E217 and E216 — three blocks in the lower tier and three above them. Away turnstiles are H, G and F, and they open 90 minutes before kick-off. The turnstiles work like a London Underground gate: you tap or scan the ticket and walk through, with stewards on hand where that fails.

Two details are worth knowing before you travel. Official away coaches park on Capital Interchange Way, TW8 0EX, which is directly beside the away turnstiles rather than a walk away — unusually convenient for a London ground on a tight site. And a stadium map is printed on the back of every match ticket, which is the sort of small provision that removes the need for a page like this one on the day itself.

Note that the club lists six away blocks. Third-party guides circulating online give eight, adding E115 and E215; those two do not appear in Brentford's own away information, and this page follows the club.

Accessible seating, and the sensory room

The stadium has 138 wheelchair spaces in the seating bowl, each with a companion space beside it, and 14 of those are allocated to away supporters. They are not all arranged the same way: in the South, East and West stands they sit on raised wheelchair platforms, while in the corners of the North Stand they are at pitch level. Which one you get depends on where in the ground your ticket is, so it is worth asking rather than assuming a platform.

Brentford's sensory room is at the top of the South Stand, in the far west corner, and its distinguishing feature is structural rather than decorative: it has special glass that protects against crowd noise while keeping a full view of the pitch. That combination is the hard part to build. A quiet room without sight of the game asks a supporter to choose between comfort and the match; this one is designed so that families who could not otherwise attend can watch from inside it, and step out into the general seating at half-time or during the game if they want to.

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