Selhurst Park

Selhurst Park holds around 26,000, and Crystal Palace publish that figure with a condition attached: it is the capacity before the Main Stand redevelopment, which the club says will take the ground beyond 34,000. Away supporters are in the corner of the Arthur Wait Stand nearest the Whitehorse Lane end.

Capacity — 26,000 now, more than 34,000 later

The number to use for a ground is the number that describes the ground as it stands, and at Selhurst Park those two figures are unusually far apart. Palace state the current capacity in the context of a Main Stand rebuild and give a target of more than 34,000 once it is finished — an increase of roughly a third. Neither figure is wrong. Only one of them describes a stadium you can currently buy a ticket for.

That gap is worth holding on to when you see Selhurst Park ranked. It is currently among the smaller Premier League grounds, and on the club's own target it would sit comfortably mid-table once the Main Stand opens. Any ranking that quietly used the target figure would put the ground several places higher than it belongs today, which is exactly why this site records what a source measured as well as what it counted.

Where do away fans sit at Selhurst Park?

Visiting supporters are in the corner of the Arthur Wait Stand next to the Whitehorse Lane end. The ground's four sides are the Arthur Wait, the Holmesdale, the Main Stand and Whitehorse Lane, the last of which houses the executive boxes, with additional premium seating in the Main Stand.

One correction worth making explicitly. Entrance 4 at Selhurst Park is where tickets are collected. It is not the away turnstile, and material describing it as one is wrong. The Information Centre — which also takes free luggage and bicycle storage — is at Entrance 9, opening three hours before kick-off and staying open until thirty minutes after the final whistle. Palace do not publish away block codes or an allocation size, so anyone needing those should ask their own club rather than infer them.

For accessible seating, Palace provide spaces for wheelchair users on a raised platform within the visiting supporters' section, so away wheelchair users sit with their own fans rather than among home supporters. Across the ground there are 128 wheelchair spaces, most on raised platforms and 14 of them pitchside. A personal assistant is admitted free.

Two sensory rooms, and the difference between them

Selhurst Park has two sensory rooms rather than one, and they are not interchangeable. One is pitch side and reachable only by stairs. The other is an enclosed room at the Whitehorse Lane end. A supporter who needs step-free access has one option, not two, and the club states that plainly rather than listing "sensory room" as a single facility and leaving the discovery until matchday.

Both are allocated by enquiry rather than sold, through a form the club uses to collect specific access requirements in advance. That is the more useful arrangement for a room with a handful of places in it, and the reason this page mentions the stairs at all: a facility you cannot reach is not a facility, and the distinction between the two rooms is the single most practical thing published about either.

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