Arsenal stadium tour

No seating plan on any page a reader can open

Arsenal do not publish a seating plan for the Emirates on any page a reader can open. The numbering exists - the ground is numbered in one continuous run around the bowl rather than restarting at each stand - but the document that sets it out is not reachable, so this page prints no block ranges and draws no diagram.

Where a club does publish one, a seating plan follows conventions worth knowing in advance — what a block number usually tells you.

Which parts of the bowl are worth paying for

The North Bank behind the goal holds the singing section and is consistently the loudest part of the ground. Club Level in the middle of the East and West stands has the best sightlines and the highest prices by a wide margin. The upper tier corners sit a long way back, and the rake is shallow enough that a tall spectator two rows in front genuinely matters.

The away section Arsenal have stopped publishing

Arsenal do not currently publish where visiting supporters sit at the Emirates either. They used to: a Visiting Supporters Guide existed as a PDF, and that address now returns HTTP 410 Gone - the status a server sends for a document withdrawn on purpose, not one that has merely moved. Nothing in the club's help centre names an away block in its place.

Put the two together and it is the clearest finding on this site. Arsenal publish neither a seating plan nor an away section on any page a reader can open, and both were available once — one document answers 404, the other 410. This is not a ground that never documented itself. It is one that has withdrawn what it had.

The consequence is worth stating out loud: every stadium site naming a block for the away end at the Emirates is repeating a figure the club has taken down. This page names none. An away supporter should ask their own club, which is where Arsenal now send the question.

£30 to £375, and a fifth tour the tours page does not list

Arsenal price every tour they list, on one page, which makes the Emirates the easiest of these five grounds to plan a visit to. The self-guided Stadium Tour is £30.00 for an adult, the Matchday Tour starts at £15.00, the Legend Tour is £50.00, and the VIP Legend Experience is £375.00 - a spread of more than twelve to one across four products at the same ground.

Self-guided Stadium Tour

£30.00

Matchday Tour

from £15.00

Legend Tour

£50.00

VIP Legend Experience

£375.00

The help centre states the trophy is viewable on the self-guided, matchday, Legend and VIP Legend tours but not on Whistlestop Tours. That is a fifth product, named in the help centre and absent from the tours page that sells the other four - so Arsenal document a tour they do not list.

Book on the official Arsenal tours site

For the general rules on booking direct and what a tour ticket covers, see buying from the club.

Queensland Road, first come first served, and a ticket you must already hold

Accessible parking is entered from Queensland Road, N7 7AJ, and is first come, first served. The condition that catches people is the order of operations: you must already hold a valid match ticket before you apply, and an application without one is rejected. The form opens at 10:00 on the day it opens, and parking itself only opens once all ballots have been processed.

A seasonal parking pass covers Premier League fixtures and the first four Champions League games only, and is not valid for women's fixtures — those need a separate match-by-match application. Visiting supporters who need accessible parking are told to go to their own club's access officer; Arsenal do not handle it.

Nine zones, three days' notice, and £14.15 an hour

The restrictions around the ground are set by Islington Council rather than by Arsenal, which is why they read differently from a club fan guide. Nine controlled parking zones are affected - E, F, G, H, J, L, N, Q and V - signs go up as much as three days before a match, and visitor parking runs at £14.15 an hour during matchday hours.

60,704, and the 60,260 that is the same ground counted differently

The published 60,704 has barely moved since the ground opened in 2006, and the changes since have been limited to wheelchair positions and the size of the away allocation. Unusually, the four stands sum exactly to that figure, because the bowl was built as a single continuous structure with no corner infill holding seats that belong to no stand. Where 60,260 appears in older sources, that is the figure net of press and hospitality seating rather than a different licensed capacity, and the two are often quoted interchangeably.

Two figures for one bowl, one of them net of press and hospitality seating, is the ordinary case rather than a contradiction: what a capacity figure includes.

A postcode the club publishes, and a coordinate it does not

Arsenal give the ground's address as Hornsey Road, London N7 7AJ, and publish no coordinate. The map below is plotted from one this site holds separately, so the postcode is the club's claim and the pin is ours.

Emirates Stadium, Hornsey Road, London N7 7AJ

View Emirates Stadium on OpenStreetMap

51.55504, -0.1084

Why Arsenal left Highbury, and what has changed since

Arsenal left Highbury in 2006 after concluding that a ground hemmed in by terraced housing and a listed stand could not be expanded. The Emirates was built on the Ashburton Grove waste-transfer site, with the naming rights agreed before it opened and the working name carried through planning. A programme in 2018 added the murals and exterior signage after sustained criticism that the interior felt anonymous next to the old ground. Licensed capacity has not changed since opening and no expansion is currently proposed.

Sources and verification

See how it compares with the rest of the division on the Premier League stadiums by capacity list.