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With Clarets snapping up season tickets quickly for our first ever Premier League season it as something that the club has under consideration but time could be against them with other extensive work needed at Turf Moor to host top flight football.
We have to offer away supporters 10% of the capacity, less than 2,200, but currently they are afforded much more with the full cricket field stand. However, a split stand is a possibility if an agreement can be reached and work done to bring in new turnstiles, there is currently only one set, and to provide segregation.
Chief Executive Paul Fletcher said: "There are no plans to move the away fans from the cricket field stand in the next twelve months, maybe in the year after that if the developments go ahead. But we have considered segregation, although I don't know whether we'll have time to do it.
"There is an awful lot of work to do with the ground and a lot of it is compulsory for us to be in the Premier League. This segregation doesn't have to be done but we have looked at limiting away fans when teams like Manchester United come.
"We could say, 'You can only have 2,100 fans and the rest will be given to Burnley fans'. Whether we are able to do it I don't know. There would have to be segregation in the concourse, in the stand and at the turnstiles, so it's not something that's straight forward. Then when people are leaving the ground you have to make sure there is no conflict.
"I know people have wondered at times this season why we have left some of the stand empty, but it's not a simple thing to do."
Fletcher is confident the club will sell the 15,000 limit on season tickets. He said: "We're fairly comfortable that they will all go because there were only 7,000 available before yesterday and they were queuing back to Barnoldswick.
"The demand at this moment in time is unprecedented but it will give the players a lift next season and I can't wait to see a packed stadium at Turf Moor in the Premier League."