Aberdeen chairman Stewart Milne has confirmed his intention to include a standing area at the club’s new Kingsford Stadium.
Milne was speaking after the club’s 113th annual AGM meeting at Pittodrie when he discussed plans for the Kngswells project.
He said: “We will have a stadium with all the corporate facilities we need and a stadium with the facilities the fans need inside and out in the fanzone.
“When we come down to developing the detail, and we won’t be doing that for a few years yet, we will have had the feedback from some of the other clubs (such as Celtic) who will have been trialling safe standing.
“We would like to think by the time we finalise the plans for the stadium we will incorporate a standing area in it.”
Despite objections to the club’s Kingsford Stadium plans, Milne said he was confident in securing the backing of the city to finally move away from Pittodrie.
Milne said: “I think a lot of people who had concerns initially are now supporting the move to Kingsford.
“The last poll was organised by one of the fans groups and something like 75% were in favour of the move and behind us.
“There will always be an element out there who will oppose it, whether it is the stadium or some other project.
“I don’t think all the answers to the arguments we put on the table will satisfy these people because they have made up their minds.”
He added: “I would like to believe the will of the people in the city is behind this project.
“But we have to wait until it has gone through the full planning process.”
The Dons will lodge their official planning application for the £50 million stadium and training complex in January and hope to get clearance to start building it by next June.
