page_title: Leicester Tigers
section_title: Stadium
hierarchical_section_title: Leicester Tigers / Stadium
caption_attribution_description: English: New stand at Leicester Tigers' ground.
context_page_description: Leicester Tigers are a professional rugby union club based in Leicester, England. They play in Premiership Rugby, England's top division of rugby.
  The club was founded in 1880 and since 1892 plays its home matches at Welford Road Stadium in the south of the city. The club has been known by the nickname Tigers since at least 1885. In the 2018–19 Premiership Rugby season Tigers finished 11th, this entitled them to compete in the 2019-20 European Rugby Challenge Cup. The current director of rugby is Geordan Murphy, who was appointed as head coach in September 2018 before taking on his current role in July 2020.
  Leicester FC have won 20 major titles. They were European Champions twice, back-to-back in 2001 and 2002; have won a record 10 English Championships; and have won eight Anglo-Welsh Cups, most recently in 2017. Leicester last won the Premiership Rugby title in the 2013 and appeared in a record nine successive Premiership finals, from 2005 to 2013. Leicester are one of only four teams never to have been relegated from the top division.
context_section_description: The club plays its home games at Welford Road Stadium.  The ground was opened in 1892 and the first stands accommodated 3,000 spectators.  The clubhouse was built on the Aylestone Road end in 1909, the Members' & Crumbie Stands were built just before and just after the First World War respectively. A stand was built at the Welford Road end in 1995, initially called the Alliance & Leicester Stand it is currently known as the Mattioli Woods Stand. The total ground capacity is currently 25,849 after redevelopments in 2008 and 2015.
  Before redevelopment of Welford Road began in 2008 the club explored other options.  On 23 November 2004 the club announced that it had entered into a 50–50 joint venture with the city's main football club, Leicester City, to purchase City's current ground, Walkers Stadium. If the purchase had gone through, the Tigers would have surrendered their lease on Welford Road and moved into Walkers Stadium. However, after several months of talks, the two clubs ended any ground share plans in July 2005.
  On 11 June 2007 the club announced plans that it was working for a redevelopment plan which would raise the capacity from 17,498 to 25,000 by 2011.  On 20 February 2008 Leicester Tigers received planning consent for the £60million redevelopment of Welford Road.  The first phase of the development was a new 10,000 seat North Stand (Granby Halls side), taking overall capacity from 17,498 to 24,000.  In the summer of 2008 work began on the construction of the new North Stand.  The work was completed for the first home game of the 2009-10 season against Newcastle Falcons.
  At the end of the 2008–09 season three home games were played at the King Power Stadium, then known as the Walkers Stadium, due to demolition of the old north stand.  These saw Tigers play Bath twice, a 20-15 win in the Heineken Cup quarter finals and a victory in the Premiership Play Off semi finals as well as a 73–3 win against Bristol.  Tigers have also played two Heineken Cup Semi Final games at the King Power Stadium, against Toulose and Llanelli Scarlets in 2005 and 2007 respectively, but the ground was designated as a neutral venue for both.
  On 27 February 2015 Tigers announced plans to continue the redevelopment of Welford Road by replacing the clubhouse and temporary West Stand with a new permanent building with a 3,100 capacity.  Work started on 28 May 2015 and was completed by January 2016.
caption: The North stand
exif: {"Image Make": "Canon", "Image Model": "Canon EOS 20D", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "240", "Image YResolution": "240", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows", "Image DateTime": "2009:09:19 23:26:21", "Image Artist": "unknown", "Image Tag 0x882A": "[1, 1]", "Image ExifOffset": "240", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "722", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "4626", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/200", "EXIF FNumber": "10", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Aperture Priority", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "200", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0221", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2009:09:19 15:06:59", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2009:09:19 15:06:59", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "477741/62500", "EXIF ApertureValue": "415241/62500", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Average", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "14", "EXIF ColorSpace": "Uncalibrated", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "3486", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "2310", "EXIF FocalPlaneXResolution": "233600/59", "EXIF FocalPlaneYResolution": "233600/59", "EXIF FocalPlaneResolutionUnit": "2", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard"}