Plymouth Argyle installing permanent LED advertising boards at Home Park

Plymouth Argyle are in the process of installing permanent LED advertising boards around the perimeter of their new hybrid pitch at Home Park.

It is anticipated they will be ready for use for the opening home match of the season against Cheltenham Town in the Carabao Cup first round on Wednesday, August 14, and will be an added revenue stream for the Championship club.

Temporary LED advertising boards were in place when Argyle played Leeds United in a BBC-televised FA Cup fourth round replay at Home Park in February, but this time it will be a full-time set-up.

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Argyle head of venue Christian Kent told Plymouth Live: "One of the objectives when we looked at the new pitch was to integrate the LED boards as a permanent install. When we did it for Leeds it was a system that gets brought in and taken out.

"What we have done is we have procured a system that we will install permanently as part of the groundworks for the pitch. We have put in concrete plinths which enable us to attach the LED system to that.

"The system will be here early August. All of the groundworks have been done so it will be installed and ready to go for the Cheltenham game, subject to it arriving on time, which I'm sure it will do. It gives us an added revenue stream on a matchday for the commercial team to sell to sponsors."

Some repairs to Argyle's big screen in the corner of the stadium between the Lyndhurst Road and Barn Park stands have also been carried out during the close season break.

Jamie Yabsley, Argyle's head of marketing and communications, said: "The big screen had a shadow down one side of it towards the end of last season and if you got close you would have seen a thousand red dots all over it, so that has had 15 new panels made, brought in and installed. That's done, that's complete."

The big screen was installed at Home Park in the summer of 2022 and cost 'a sizeable six-figure sum' and Yabsley believes it has been a big benefit. "In terms of enhancing the matchday experience it has offered a new dimension to what we can do for everyone," he said.

"People are coming in earlier now watching videos. It has given the media team the opportunity to have a play with developing the content, so that's quite nice."