Committee chairwoman Sue Watts said if spectators continued to invade the field at half-time then they would have to look at the capacity of the ground.

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Roddy acknowledged that the club is losing out on financial revenue because of their limited ground capacity for the European games.

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Its Watnall Road ground has a capacity of 3, 000, with a record attendance in recent years being about 1, 800 at FA Trophy games.

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Tickets will be available for all areas of the ground but once the capacity has been met, the game will be sold out.

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The famous old ground in St John's Wood has a capacity of 30, 000, and that is unlikely to go beyond around 40, 000 at the most in the foreseeable future.

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Despite this setback and the club's debts, Charlton remain a relatively attractive proposition to investors as the side's famous ground, The Valley, has been extensively modernised over the last decade and boasts a capacity of 27, 000.

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