Wolves fans ready for move in new stadium

Wolves are to move visiting fans away from the South Bank permanently under their £40m Molineux redevelopment. Visiting supporters are to be situated in the new north east corner, between the Stan Cullis and Steve Bull stands, once work is complete in that area in two years' time.

Opposition fans have long occupied some part of the South Bank area because of its close proximity to the rail and coach stations.

But all that will change when the development gets under way next summer.

"We'll situate the away supporters in the new north east corner," said chief executive Jez Moxey.

"They will occupy a section of the new North Stand, and then as we build the East Stand, they will be able to expand, whether a club wants 1,100 seats or say 6,000 seats for an FA Cup tie."

"But we will never have home fans sitting above away fans, or vice-versa."

Ultimately, owner Steve Morgan wants Wolves fans to create the most intimidating atmosphere possible for the opposition and having exclusively home support behind both goals will help achieve that.

"Molineux has a fantastic atmosphere when they're really 'at it'," said Moxey.

"If we are to enclose this stadium and bring fans within touching distance almost of our players, the atmosphere could be the most intimidating it could get.

"Steve's driving factor is this has got to give us that genuine home advantage feel to our team that sometimes in the past we haven't had at Molineux."

During the redevelopment, allocations for away fans will be slashed in keeping with the reduced capacity.

"We need 10 per cent or 3,000 of the capacity, whichever is lower, so we'll be able to cater for about 2,200 away supporters during construction," said Moxey.

"One of the really important benefits of doing this is solving the away fans problem for ever and a day."