Rangers to build Blue Sky Lounge at Ibrox to increase capacity by 200
Rangers have announced their plans to build a new hospitality area at Ibrox which will increase the capacity of the stadium by 200 seats.
The development will include a state-of-the-art restaurant which will immediately become a leading place in Scottish football with 330 guests able to be crammed into the lounge for every matchday at Ibrox.
Not only that, but the restaurant itself will be open seven days a week for those who wish to dine there and the process is set to run until October.
“The Blue Sky Lounge is another flagship development at Ibrox as part of our 150th-anniversary celebrations, said James Bisgrove, Rangers Commercial and Marketing Director on the Rangers club website.
“Alongside New Edmiston House and the new Club Museum, the board is committed to continually modernise and enhance the Ibrox matchday experience, and we look forward to welcoming supporters to the new Blue Sky Lounge restaurant (to open 7-days a week) and matchday hospitality guests later this calendar year.”
Moneymaker
An extra 200 seats isn’t going to revolutionise what is already an unbelievable atmosphere at Ibrox but that isn’t what this particular development is expected to do.
This is a way for the club to generate even more profits overall and that will eventually help us improve the squad and keep on getting better and better every year.
There will be plenty of interest when this lounge is first opened with fans wanting to experience a different kind of matchday and sponsors will be able to enjoy it too which will hopefully keep them happy.
Ibrox has been around for a long time and while the traditional aspects of the ground are to be admired, the club needs to keep moving with the times such is the reputation of the Light Blues, they need hospitality for their wealth of esteemed guests.
It won’t be a hugely popular bit of news for some Rangers fans but the crucial thing is that the current experience of watching Rangers at home won’t change one iota, there’s just a tad more money to spend in the transfer window, that’s all.
In other Rangers news, Steven Gerrard should be forced to “bring an army” if he wants to take one of his former players away from Ibrox and to Aston Villa this summer.