Etihad Stadium seating plan

Block 130 became 030, and every row letter became a number

On 23 June 2025 Manchester City announced that they were relabelling the whole ground. Level 1 became Level 0, Level 2 became Level 1, the hospitality box level became Level 2, and Level 3 stayed as it was. The block numbers moved with the levels — the club's example is that "Block 130 will become Block 030, and Block 230 will become Block 130" — because the leading digit is the level and the levels had all shifted down by one. Blocks on Level 3 were not affected. Row labels changed too, from letters to numbers, across the ground.

Nothing physical moved. City were explicit that a season ticket holder enters by the same turnstile, walks to the same level and sits in the same seat, and that "the only change will be that the numbers outside the levels, blocks and rows will be visually different". The reasons given are the expansion and its new single upper tier, health and safety guidance recommending consistent labelling, and feedback from disabled supporters who found the old level names confusing in the lifts.

The consequence for anyone reading about this ground is larger than the change itself. Every block reference published before mid-2025 uses the old scheme, and that includes City's own older material. So a seating plan showing 1xx and 2xx blocks at the Etihad is not wrong so much as expired, and the two schemes overlap in a way that makes the error invisible: block 130 exists in both, and means a different seat in each. If a page does not tell you which scheme it is using, it does not know.

For where you enter the block, the current accessibility page gives three rules: on Level 0 you enter at the back row, on Level 1 from the concourse at Row 10, and on Level 3 from the concourse at Row 5. Each row is equivalent to two steps up or down, and blocks on Levels 1 and 3 have a small number of steps from the concourse in the non-wheelchair- accessible ones. Those row numbers used to be letters, which is the renaming showing its work.

City publish no stand-by-stand block list in text. The authoritative lookup is their 3D seat-view tool, which answers one seat at a time and cannot be read as a document, so this page prints the rule and the entry rows rather than a table it would have to assemble by hand.

For the conventions the relabelling was brought into line with, see how grounds label levels, blocks and rows.

Nothing published about where you sit, and one car park that is

Manchester City publish no fixed away blocks. Nothing on their site names a block, a range or a stand that reliably holds visiting supporters, and allocations are settled per fixture as they are at most grounds that have not written the answer down.

What the club do publish is narrower and more useful than a guess: where a visiting disabled supporter parks, and who to ask. An allocation of Blue Badge spaces is provided to the away club for each fixture, in the Grey Car Park for Etihad Stadium matches and the West Car Park for matches at the Joie Stadium. To reserve one you contact your own club's Disability Liaison Officer or ticket office, not City. That is the practical answer to the question this section usually answers with block numbers, and it is the one City have actually stated.

£28 on a matchday, £20 for sixty minutes on the pitch

The Manchester City Stadium Tour lasts approximately 75 minutes and starts at M-Gate, in the South Stand facing the Grey Car Park. Arrive fifteen minutes early, or thirty for a Countdown to Kick Off tour, and under-14s must be with an adult. City also run a City Football Academy tour and a Walk with a Legend; neither carries a published duration or price on the pages that describe them.

The two matchday products are priced. A Matchday Stadium Tour is £28.00 for an adult, £22.00 for over-65s and students, and £17.00 for under-16s. It leaves from the City Store and is available only up to four hours before kick-off, taking in the home dressing room with an audio-visual show, the glass players' tunnel, the dug-outs and the Tunnel Club hospitality suite, with a virtual Pep Guardiola fielding questions in the press conference room. Routes change with matchday operations.

The Matchday Pitch-Side Walk is the cheaper way in: £20.00 for an adult, £15.00 for over-65s and students and £13.50 for under-16s, for a sixty-minute walk around the pitch that includes a photograph with the official match ball and a complimentary programme. It needs a valid match ticket and runs from four hours before kick-off to one hour before.

Matchday tours run to a different timetable from ordinary ones, as stadium tours, and when they do not run explains.

Free in the Yellow Car Park, unless there is a match

Tour visitors park free. City hold a limited amount of free parking on the Yellow Car Park, entered via Gate 11 on Ashton New Road, postcode M11 3FF, and it is signposted around the ground. Coaches pick up and drop off next to Gate 11 on Rowsley Street at the same postcode.

The qualification is the whole of it: free parking is not available on matchdays, and City say charges may apply then. So the same car park answers the parking question two opposite ways depending on which day you come, and the free answer is the non-matchday one. The Metrolink stop is Etihad Campus, which is what the club point at instead.

The accessible car park is reached via the West Gate and is signposted locally as the West Car Park. For visiting supporters, Blue Badge spaces are in the Grey Car Park and are booked through your own club rather than through City.

Over 60,000 is a target, not a capacity

There is no current capacity figure for the Etihad, and that is the honest state of it rather than a gap in this page. The North Stand expansion is still under way, and while it continues Manchester City publish a target and nothing else: the work "will add more than 7,000 general admission seats, increasing the Etihad Stadium's total capacity to over 60,000".

"Over 60,000" is a target and not a measurement. It has no precision, it describes a stadium that is not finished, and no exact operational figure is published anywhere while the cranes are up. This page therefore states none. Any site giving you a precise Etihad capacity today has either taken a superseded figure or made one up, and the two are hard to tell apart once printed.

Two other numbers from the same announcement are worth naming so they are not misread as capacity. The expanded North Stand will include "a minimum of 3,000 rail seats, but this can increase depending on demand" — safe standing, and part of the ground rather than an addition to it. And City will release "more than 4000 new Flexi Season Tickets stadium-wide" for 2026/27, half of them ringfenced for Junior Cityzens; that is a ticket allocation, not seats. A museum, fan zone, hotel and food and beverage spaces are also promised for late 2026, and City attach no capacity figure to any of them.

A target and a capacity are not the same claim, and telling a target from a measurement is about telling them apart.

M11 3FF, and a query with no runner-up to reject

City publish the postcode M11 3FF for the ground and its Gate 11 entrance, but no coordinate, so the pin below comes from OpenStreetMap — object way/26329734, classified leisure/stadium. Unusually for this site the query returned a single result with nothing to reject: no adjacent street, suburb or railway station carrying the same name. That is worth recording as the exception rather than as a reason to skip the check next time.

Etihad Stadium, Manchester M11 3FF

View Etihad Stadium on OpenStreetMap

53.48314, -2.20053

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