Re: EA FC 25 starhead thread
So with the confirmation of Bristol City’s Ashton Gate which all but confirms Blackburn’s Ewood Park and Coventry’s CBS Arena, there will only be 6 Championship stadiums missing.
Derby County’s Pride Park
Millwall’s The Den
Oxford United’s Kassam Stadium
Plymouth Argyle’s Home Park
Preston North End’s Deepdale
Sheffield Wednesday’s Hillsborough
So as well as praying for clubs to be promoted to the Premier League to get their stadium and players scanned, we now will be hoping they survive the Championship for the next few seasons and that clubs without stadiums get promoted from League 1 to get their stadiums scanned.
A few things to note:
- I do not believe Oxford’s stadium will make the game until they move to the new stadium as their contract to play at the Kassam runs out at the end of 25/26. It may mean whoever they ground share with for a season or two might end up with their stadium in the game (MK Dons, Reading, Wycombe most likely)
- Birmingham City fans must be particularly frustrated as surely their St Andrews would have been in the game had they survived last season.
- Will clubs like Birmingham, Bolton, Barnsley and Charlton usurp the clubs lower down the alphabet if they are promoted? I hope not as a Wednesday fan.
- Will Portsmouth get rescanned out of this eventually as the ground is the only current one that has been updated since it was scanned?
- Will League 1 start to get scanned once the Championship is complete?
- Are EA sitting on other stadium scans that they will drip feed over the next few years?
- Will the Spanish Segunda and German Bundesliga 2 have similar things happen in their 2nd tiers?
- Will the French Ligue 1 continue to have 1 new stadium a year. Are all or many more already scanned and just waiting for their turn to be added? Surely Nice, Monaco or Rennes will be next.
