MKM Stadium

The MKM Stadium is a 25,586-seat ground, and the unusual thing about that number is who states it. Hull City publish no capacity anywhere reachable. The figure comes from Hull FC, the rugby league club that has shared the ground since 2003 — and so does everything below it about where away supporters sit.

MKM Stadium capacity — 25,586 seats, stated by the other tenant

Hull FC describe the ground as a state-of-the-art 25,586 seat stadium. That is a seat count in a publisher's own words, not a licensed matchday capacity, and the distinction matters more here than at most grounds. A shared stadium hosting a segregated football fixture can be licensed below its seat count, and nobody publishes what that licensed figure is. Treat 25,586 as the number of seats in the bowl, which is what it says, rather than as the maximum crowd a Premier League match may admit.

A second figure circulates and it is not a competing measurement: 25,512 is the ground's highest recorded attendance, published by Hull City's own TigerBase records. It sits just below the seat count, which is exactly where a record attendance should sit, and reading it as a capacity would understate the ground by 74 seats while sounding more precise than the real figure. A record attendance is evidence that a capacity is plausible. It is not the capacity.

Where do away fans sit at the MKM Stadium?

Away supporters are in the North Stand. Hull FC's seating plan marks the area more precisely than that: the grey block in the north-east corner of the stadium is reserved for visiting fans, with its own away turnstiles where tickets can also be bought on the day. The North Stand is otherwise the cheapest part of the ground, with the home blocks running towards the north-west corner.

One caveat belongs with all of this. Hull FC state that their seating plan applies to Hull FC matches. It is a rugby league club describing rugby league fixtures at a ground it shares. Away ends are usually a fixed piece of a stadium's architecture rather than a per-sport decision, so the north-east corner is very likely where football's visiting supporters go too — but "very likely" is not the same as published, and Hull City publish nothing that confirms it. Check your own club's travel information for the fixture you are actually attending.

The ground has four stands, named for the compass: North, South, East and West. Block codes are almost entirely unpublished; the only ones Hull FC name are W10 and W11 in the West Stand, which hold the family area. Parking at the stadium is on Walton Street at £6, card and contactless only, and St Stephen's Shopping Centre is about ten minutes' walk away.

A ground with two clubs, and what that explains

Sharing is not a footnote here. It is the reason this page can exist at all. Hull City's website could not be reached, and the club publishes no capacity, no stand breakdown and no visiting-supporter information that can be found. Every fact on this page comes from the co-tenant instead — which is permitted, because a resident club of a ground is a first-party source for that ground, and Hull FC have been resident since 2003.

It also explains the shape of what is available. Hull FC publish for a rugby audience: unreserved seating in the South Stand, an unreserved singing end in the south-east corner of the East Stand, reserved seating in the West. That is a useful map of the bowl and a poor map of a football matchday, and the gaps in this page follow the gaps in the source rather than the gaps in the ground. If Hull City ever publish their own guide, most of the caveats above disappear at once.

Sources and verification