LONDON: Approval has been granted for crowd capacity at Wembley Stadium to be increased to a record 96,000 for the Riyadh Season Card — Wembley Edition boxing event next month.
In the headline bout on Sept. 21, two-time former unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua will take on champion Daniel Dubois for the International Boxing Federation world heavyweight title.
General admission tickets for what will be the first Riyadh Season boxing event held in London sold out last week, based on the original event capacity of 94,000, but now that organizers have received the green light to increase capacity at England’s national stadium, additional tickets will go on sale on Friday at 12 noon, UK time, on Ticketmaster.com.
A sell-out crowd of 96,000 fans at the London stadium would set a record in the UK and post-war Europe for a boxing event, surpassing the 94,000 who watched Tyson Fury knock out Dillian Whyte at the same venue in April 2022.
The Riyadh Season Card event in London features six all-British bouts. Musical entertainment will be provided by Liam Gallagher in his first live performance since the announcement this week that he and his brother Noel will embark on an Oasis reunion tour in 2025.
The rebuilt Wembley stadium opened in 2007 on the site of the original stadium. For football matches, it has an official capacity of 90,000, and the record attendance is 89,874 for the 2008 FA Cup final in which Portsmouth defeated Cardiff City 1-0. The largest crowd at an event of any kind at the stadium was 98,000 at an Adele concert in June 2017.
The record attendance at the old Wembley Stadium was 126,047, when Bolton Wanderers beat West Ham United 2-0 in the 1923 FA Cup final.
