Bristol Flyers head coach Andreas Kapoulas is "very confident" the club can sell out a new 3,600-seater basketball arena set to be built by Ashton Gate and help the team realise its full ambitions, domestically and on the continent.
The venue is part of plans for a £200m ‘Sporting Quarter’ development - including a 232-room hotel, 125 apartments, offices, shops, a gym, a club museum, and a multi-storey car park, which were approved by Bristol City Council this week.
Coach Kapoulas said the larger venue would be a “gamechanger” for the British Basketball League (BBL) franchise, which currently plays to a capacity home crowd of 750 at the SGS College Arena in Filton. He added the move would allow the Flyers to achieve their ambitions of playing in Europe, and to be closer to their Bristol Sport affiliates Bristol City and Bristol Bears.
