ALL 25,000 seats are under cover and within 90 metres of the centre of the pitch.

The overall cost was £25,449,208, making it around £915 per seat.

Costs included £127,000 on turnstiles, £7,550 on the dugouts, an amazing £295,000 on the glass for hospitality boxes and £189,521 on toilets.

Seven architects worked on the design of the building.

work started in June 1996 and finished on September 1, 1997.

In case of emergency, the estimated time to get to safety from any seat is eight minutes.

The stadium has twin players' tunnels, allowing both teams to enter the pitch at the same time - a features no other club in England has.

It has restaurants, shops, conference facilities, exhibition spaces, medical facilities and even a nursery.

The design of the stadium is based on the award-winning stadium at Huddersfield but with improvements including the continuous "bowl" shape of the lower tier of seats. Each of the roof spans covers the full length of one side of the stadium. Chief stadium architect Derek Wilson said: "The Reebok Stadium has been quickly adopted by Bolton's supporters as their spiritual home.

"Many have suggested it would never have been built if it was not for the precedent Huddersfield set in the development of its new stadium, winner of the RIBA Building of The Year Award in 1995.

"But to see this new building in the shadow of Huddersfield would be wrong.

"Huddersfield was designed for a smaller club with fewer financial resources and was intended to be built in four separate phases. The Reebok is a more extensive development, bigger and more integrated in concept, built in one phase and providing the extensive facilities required for a modern Premier League club."

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