A new stadium for Hull FC is merely “a pipedream”, owner Adam Pearson has revealed.
In recent years, talks have been broached about the possibility of the Black and Whites moving into their own home following two decades of holding a tenancy at the MKM Stadium.
The rugby league side moved into the MKM Stadium – back when it was named the KC – in 2003 when the venue opened.
Of course, with Hull City taking charge of the ground, the East Yorkshire side have to negotiate rent with four years left on the rent contract between the rugby league side and the football club.
For Pearson, the idea of owning their own stadium is the utopian dream, but it will not be happening any time soon.
“We’d love to have our own stadium obviously but that’s a pipedream at the minute. We have four years left at the MKM and I fully expect us to stay there and extend that lease,” Pearson told BBC Radio Humberside.
“We are not in a mad rush to extend, when you renegotiate it only goes one way so we would quite like to keep what we’ve got at the moment.
“The council is supporting us with a right to an extension. If we had a stadium like York or Warrington to move to then that would be the ideal scenario but I can’t see, in any shape or form, how that will happen.”
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