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“ That’s about right for them 18,000 Capacity “

Thu Aug 27, 2026 8:22 am

Away fans will get 3,000.

18,000 Total Capacity will be well and truly enough:


Wrexham's £70m Kop stand a symbol of ambition?

- New stand will hold 7,750, pushing capacity past 18,000

- Designed by firm behind Wembley and Vegas Sphere

- Would exceed Brentford and Bournemouth's capacities

- Old Kop stood condemned for over a decade

- Reynolds and Mac still green-lighting further transfer spending


- Fully operational stand only guaranteed if it's in the Premier League

- Can the players match the club's off-field vision
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Re: “ That’s about right for them 18,000 Capacity “

Thu Aug 27, 2026 12:01 pm

I'm surprised nobodies mentioned the comment yesterday from the Manchester Airport Group who run Manchester, East Midlands and Stansted. They're claim to be selling more Wrexham shirts than Arsenal and Man City and only behind Man Utd and Liverpool. Almost unbelievable.

Re: “ That’s about right for them 18,000 Capacity “

Thu Aug 27, 2026 2:08 pm

epping blue wrote:I'm surprised nobodies mentioned the comment yesterday from the Manchester Airport Group who run Manchester, East Midlands and Stansted. They're claim to be selling more Wrexham shirts than Arsenal and Man City and only behind Man Utd and Liverpool. Almost unbelievable.


Selling 100,000 shirts per year is probably equivalent to in excess of 7,000 bums on seats.

Ticket sales, although important, can easily be subsidised by a well run commercial department.

Tickets + Merchandise is probably the equivalent of 25k to 28k attendances for Wrexham.

Re: “ That’s about right for them 18,000 Capacity “

Thu Aug 27, 2026 3:34 pm

Wayne S wrote:
epping blue wrote:I'm surprised nobodies mentioned the comment yesterday from the Manchester Airport Group who run Manchester, East Midlands and Stansted. They're claim to be selling more Wrexham shirts than Arsenal and Man City and only behind Man Utd and Liverpool. Almost unbelievable.


Selling 100,000 shirts per year is probably equivalent to in excess of 7,000 bums on seats.

Ticket sales, although important, can easily be subsidised by a well run commercial department.

Tickets + Merchandise is probably the equivalent of 25k to 28k attendances for Wrexham.





I wasn't so much thinking of it from an income point of view. I was just staggered that apparently more Wrexham shirts are being sold from those outlets than are currently being sold for Arsenal and Man City. It is almost unbelievable.