2023 & 2027 World Cup Bids

[liquor box]

Hmmm. not entirely.

Lets have a look at the 2003 venues and forecast forward:

ANZ Stadium - Sydney - No changes needed
Allianz Stadium - Sydney - No changes needed
Bluetongue Stadium - Gosford - No changes needed, wouldn't use it TBH
WIN Stadium - Gong - Recently upgraded
Suncorp Stadium - Brisbane - No changes needed
Dairy Farmers Stadium - Townsville - New stadium in the pipeline
Etihad Stadium - Melbourne - No changes needed
Pattersons Stadium - Perth - New stadium in 2017
Canberra Stadium - Canberra - TBA
Adelaide Oval - Adeialde - Undergoing upgrade
Aurora Stadium - Launceston - Recently upgraded

You could essentially look at:
AAMI Park - Melbourne - Expansion?
Energy Australia Stadium - Newcastle - Recently upgraded
Hindmarsh Stadium - Adelaide - Expansion?
Skilled Park/Metricon Stadium - Gold Coast

I was thinking expansion and or adding a roof to various stadiums.
If the population increases like it is meant to, then grounds like Lang Park will need to be around 80,000 capacity by then

 

[kronic]

Hmmm... that's a big discussion, as you have to evaluate each stadium/city case by case.

I don't think there would be too many upgrades paid for by this potential World Cup TBH. The WA government are paying for Perth, the Comm Games is paying for Metricon. I can only see AAMI being done, perhaps to 40k and potentially Hindmarsh also.

 

[stoff]

AAMI can't have a capacity increase done economically. The concrete structure was designed to be able to easily upgrade to around 40k, but this wasn't carried through to the roof steel design, which means the whole steel bubble structure has to come off. Thats one reason it wasn't considered for the soccer world cup bid.

 

[kronic]

AAMI can't have a capacity increase done economically. The concrete structure was designed to be able to easily upgrade to around 40k, but this wasn't carried through to the roof steel design, which means the whole steel bubble structure has to come off. Thats one reason it wasn't considered for the soccer world cup bid.

Aware of that. Foundations can support 50k, however due to an agreement with Docklands you can't building anything north of 40k nearby.

If they were going to modify anything, it would be the ends, perhaps a tier on top or something like that.

If there's a will, there's a a way.