Kenilworth Road Set To Break Record For Premier League's Smallest Stadium If Luton Town Win Promotion

Kenilworth Road will set a new record for the smallest stadium in Premier League history if Luton Town are promoted via the Championship playoffs this season.

Luton Town are potentially just 90 minutes away from reaching the Premier League after beating Sunderland 3-2 on aggregate in the semi-finals of the EFL Championship playoffs.

If Luton win the playoff final at Wembley on May 27 then the Bedfordshire outfit will have gone from the fifth tier of English soccer to the first in just nine seasons.

Luton's on-field progress has been faster than the club's development off the pitch.

Luton Town have just defeated Sunderland to make it to the Championship Playoff Final 😮

They are one win away from playing Premier League matches at Kenilworth Road 🏟

SCENES! pic.twitter.com/jSyt76mkYq

— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) May 16, 2023

Brexit and the Covid pandemic are just two reasons why construction on Luton's planned new stadium has yet to formally begin.

Club bosses remain committed to building a new ground but for now home is still Kenilworth Road, as it has been since 1905.

If Luton are promoted, Kenilworth Road will become the smallest stadium in Premier League history.

With a capacity of just 10,356, it would break the record held by the Vitality Stadium, the 11,379-seat current home of AFC Bournemouth.

If Luton do manage to go up, they need to spend £10m to get Kenilworth Road @premierleague ready. While preparing to build a new stadium at Power Court. pic.twitter.com/hJWRw7jScs

— Henry Winter (@henrywinter) May 16, 2023

Prior to Bournemouth's arrival in England's top division in 2015, the smallest stadium in Premier League history had been Boundary Park where Oldham Athletic played in front of a maximum crowd of 13,559 in the 1993/94 season.

Kenilworth Road is not just small. It is also very quirky.

Away supporters enter the stadium via turnstiles embedded into a row of terraced houses.

Once through the gates, fans then have to walk up metal stairs above the gardens of local residents.

Luton away end via people's back gardens #avfc pic.twitter.com/SsQ6b7TTib

— Lee Bickerton (@Lee_Bickerton) August 10, 2016

A general view of the entrance where away supporters enter Luton Town's Kenilworth Road stadium :: IMAGO/PRiME Media Images/David Horn