Newcastle United chief executive Darren Eales revealed to The Athletic that the team is starting a “formal process” to expand St James’ Park.
Mail Sport revealed in February that the Magpies had bought land right behind St James’ Park with the aim of expanding the stadium.
The land was previously sold by former owner Mike Ashley to Helios Real Estate and Marrico for £9m four years ago and recently went to Reditum Capital. The stadium was last expanded in 2000, with a previous capacity of about 36,000 seats.
Newcastle chief executive Darren Eales said: “Given the demand for tickets, what we are doing is calculating the feasibility of the stadium and we are looking at what is possible.”
“We started that recently, a formal process. I quickly learned that everyone has an opinion about what’s possible and everyone is an amateur architect.”
Eales revealed that there will be a survey for fans, to get feedback from those who love the team.
“More consultation is needed but the first thing is to see what can be done,” Eales concluded.