Fratton Park?
On 6 March 2019, Portsmouth Football Club revealed that improvements to the South Stand had begun with an estimated completion date scheduled before the start of the 2019-2020 season. The work on the South Stand included new exterior cladding, a new roof, new guttering, new lighting (including emergency lighting) and replacing structural steelwork within the South Stand's structure.[21]
On 21 May 2019, Portsmouth applied for planning permission to construct a new, larger camera gantry to the roof of the South Stand, along with eight sets of roof-mounted floodlight clusters.[22] The new gantry is hoped to be in place for the 2020-21 season.[23]
On 9 July 2019, a video released by Portsmouth's media department showed the first of ten sets of rooftop mounted floodlights being fitted to the new roof of the South Stand.[24]
By Tuesday 6 August 2019, the work to improve the South Stand roof, cladding and rooftop floodlights were completed in time for Fratton Park's first competitive match for the 2019-20 season, the First Round of the League Cup against Birmingham City, an evening fixture in which Portsmouth won 3-0.[25][26] This was the first evening game played without any light from Fratton Park's iconic four corner floodlight pylon towers since their erection in 1962.