St. Andrew's 1988 - 2004

The Taylor report in 1992, following the tragedies at Hillsborough and Valley Parade, resulted in the capacity of St. Andrews being reduced again to 26,000.

A year later this figure was increased to 28,235 and so came the time to completely revamp the whole of St. Andrew's into a modern all-seater stadium.

Under the new board of Directors at the club, David Sullivan and the Gold brothers work began immediately after Blues home game with Bristol City on 16th April 1994 when emotional fans took treasured momentoes from the Titon Road and Kop stands.

The £4.5 million redevelopment project meant a 7,000 all-seater Tilton Road stand, which was ready for the first home game of the 1994-95 season against Chester City.

The new Kop which had 9,500 seats was opened for Blues league cup game with Blackburn Rovers not long after on 4th October.

The "official opening" of the new St. Andrews stadium was on 15th November 1994 when Blues played host to arch rivals Aston Villa in a friendly game which ended 1-1 and was watched by a crowd of almost 20,000.

Work soon followed on assembling a new 9,500 all seater stand at the Railway end of the ground and this area was officially opened in February 1999 when Blues entertained Bolton in a first division fixture.

When the turn of the century came St. Andrew's was one of the best grounds outside of the Premiership with a capacity of just over 30,000.

During the pre-season of 2001/02, at the request of the then manager Trevor Francis, who complained about the pitch cutting up badly during the long winter season, the pitch was relaid at St. Andrews at an estimated cost of £250,000.