21-02-2017, 10:25
A few tips for visiting the Etihad Stadium.
1) Parking is a nightmare, if you must go by car then try and park 10/15 minutes walk away from the stadium and be careful...residents only parking in operation near the ground and the sneaky traffic wardens don't even put a ticket on, they just take a photo and send the ticket and photo through the post
2)Trams are about every 6minutes from the Etihad Campus station(far end of the ground from us) so whilst they are frequent, do expect to queue. Think it's £3 or £3.50 return from Piccadilly or 20/30 mins walk back to the Station which plenty do.
3) Pubs- little to no pubs usually for away fans, best of drinking in the city centre. Drink is served in the ground.
4) Seating- roughly 8000 tickets. The usual away allocation in the bottom and middle tier and from what I can gather almost all of the upper tier. Be warned if you are going in the upper tier it's very steep and very high to the back although having the majority of support up here (circa 6k) will probably mean the better atmosphere.
If you go for the bottom two tiers you will be separated by 2 lines of stewards from the home fans, many of which delight in 'banter' with the away fans and it's usually the away fan that gets into trouble. cracking view from the middle tier, the bottom tier is ok but you'd want to be near the back for a decent view of the game.
1) Parking is a nightmare, if you must go by car then try and park 10/15 minutes walk away from the stadium and be careful...residents only parking in operation near the ground and the sneaky traffic wardens don't even put a ticket on, they just take a photo and send the ticket and photo through the post
2)Trams are about every 6minutes from the Etihad Campus station(far end of the ground from us) so whilst they are frequent, do expect to queue. Think it's £3 or £3.50 return from Piccadilly or 20/30 mins walk back to the Station which plenty do.
3) Pubs- little to no pubs usually for away fans, best of drinking in the city centre. Drink is served in the ground.
4) Seating- roughly 8000 tickets. The usual away allocation in the bottom and middle tier and from what I can gather almost all of the upper tier. Be warned if you are going in the upper tier it's very steep and very high to the back although having the majority of support up here (circa 6k) will probably mean the better atmosphere.
If you go for the bottom two tiers you will be separated by 2 lines of stewards from the home fans, many of which delight in 'banter' with the away fans and it's usually the away fan that gets into trouble. cracking view from the middle tier, the bottom tier is ok but you'd want to be near the back for a decent view of the game.