The local council of Lyon suburb Décines has finally signed the building permit for Lyon’s proposed 58,000-seater. The signature brings a long process, that started almost five years ago, to an end, and frees up the way for the start of construction [...]
They are only 20 stadiums in total, but we can still pull some interesting data out of them. Like how do they compare in terms of capacity and age? What are the differences between the old and new stadiums? And do the newer ones fill up easier than the old ones?
Supporter violence in the Egyptian port city of Port Said have cost the lives of at least 73 fans, Egyptian state television reports. Riots started after the referee blew the final whistle of a match between Masry and Ahly, and the home fans stormed the pitch. The [...]
Polish football player Ariel Borysiuk was on the brink of making a move from Legia Warsaw to Club Brugge yesterday, when he at the last moment decided to pull out of a deal and go to Kaiserslautern instead. The 20-year-old travelled to [...]
Good news for Spurs in their quest to build a new stadium, as chairman Levy was able to announce that the club had secured the commitment of London Mayor Boris Johnson and Haringey Council in financially contributing toward Tottenham’s proposed new stadium. [...]
Saudi Arabia newspaper Al Sharq reports that the people in charge of building a new stadium in the city of Jeddah have received instructions to make sure that the stadium can receive female spectators when it opens in 2014. This, of course, [...]
Yesterday, Warsaw National Stadium officially opened, the last in a row of eight playing venues for the upcoming European Championships. No football was played though, as was chosen for a series of concerts by Polish rock bands such as Zakopower, T.Love, and Lady Gaga Lady Pank. Celebrations were concluded with [...]
Not much stadium news these days, so instead a photo of a recently unveiled statue of Neymar at Santos’ Vila Belmiro stadium. The statue was made to honour the player for winning the FIFA Puskas award for the best goal of the year.
Cagliari president Massimo Cellino has once more stated that he is fed up with the complete lack of progress on Cagliari’s planned new stadium. From an interview with La Gazzetta dello Sport: Ogni giorno c’è da superare un cavillo. Sono stanco. O i lavori iniziano per giugno o sarò costretto [...]
In 2009 FC Zwolle opened a brand new stadium, however fans quickly realised that this wasn’t the stadium they had dreamt of all these years, but that something had happened in the chaotic process, something that has caused these fans never really to warm up to their new stadium.
Yes, according to the company that was in charge of demolishing Galatasaray’s old Ali Sami Yen stadium. Because apparently the stadium was so poorly constructed that it was on the verge of collapse. I cannot recall having read about this back in May 2011, when the article in Turkish newspaper [...]
Stadion Narodowy w Warszawie, or better Warsaw National Stadium, has announced the line-up of artists for its opening ceremony. The recently completed stadium will be officially opened on the 29th of January with an event involving concerts of various local artists, to be concluded with the traditional fireworks. The closing [...]
In the last few weeks we have increased our stadium database with another 70+ stadiums, and I think we can freely argue that Europe’s most important stadiums are now included (though admittedly there are still quite a few countries missing). That’s why we are now ready to start including smaller [...]
We hope you’ll enjoy what we’ve done, which basically means a complete overhaul of the site. Because the old one looked like 2002, and had not been updated for way too long of a time. So, to get started, let’s sum the basic changes [...]
With our new design live in a few days, let’s have a look at the current status of our database. So far we’ve entered the details of a total of 109 stadiums. Of these, 94 fall into the present stadiums category. England is the country with the most entries, 18 [...]
The Abe Lenstra Stadion is the home stadium of SC Heerenveen. It was the first modern stadium in the Netherlands. The stadium has a capacity of 26,100 seats. First plans for the construction of a new stadium were made in 1992. The old stadium could not meet the increasing popularity [...]
Stade Francis-Le Blé is the home stadium of Stade Brestois 29. It offers a capacity of 15,097 seats. The stadium opened in 1922 under the name Stade de l’Amoricaine. It was a relatively modest stadium that remained almost unchanged until a new grand stand was built in 1982. At that [...]
The swissporarena is the recently completed new stadium of FC Luzern. It has a capacity of 17,000, of which 3,000 standing places and 864 VIP places. The swissporarena was built on the same site as Luzern’s old Stadion Allmend. Construction started in September 2009 and was completed almost 2 years [...]
All About the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations
Tomorrow, the 28th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations will start with the opening match between Equatorial Guinea and Libya. For the former it will be the first showing at an Africa Cup, which is primarily because they are co-hosting the event with Gabon, who [...]
Liverpool FC took a step back and forwards at the same time when it decided to proceed with its 9-year-old plans for a new stadium, reports the Telegraph. Even though current American owners Fenway Sports Group had earlier indicated to prefer a redevelopment of Anfield, they now [...]
In May 2010 Wolves announced a £40 million redevelopment program for Molineux Stadium. A year and a half later Wolves seem to be progressing steadily with the project. Wolves occupied Molineux Stadium in 1889, and, after the stadium had decayed much in the 1970s and [...]
Valencia Stadium Works Resumed in 2012
Works on the Nuevo Mestalla stadium will resume at the beginning of 2012, according to an announcement of the mayor of Valencia and the club’s president last Tuesday. Construction of the stadium, which began in August 2007, was halted early 2009 with little indication during the last [...]
Spurs Pushing Ahead with NDP Stadium Project
Tottenham Hotspur has further committed itself to the execution of the Northumberland Development project which it presented three years ago. The project entails the construction of a 55,000-seater stadium, built adjacent to Tottenham’s current ground White Hart Lane, along with a [...]
Fulham Advances with Craven Cottage Development Plans
Fulham FC has revealed further information about their plans to develop Craven Cottage, including some new drawings of the proposed Riverside Stand. The club has a long-standing desire to increase capacity and modernise 105-year-old Craven Cottage and has in the past even [...]
Atlético Madrid Presents New Stadium Plans
Last Monday Atlético Madrid unveiled their plans to build a new stadium in the east of Madrid. The stadium will have a capacity of 67,500 seats, about 12,000 more than fit in the current Estadio Vicente Calderón. Atlético had been looking for a move from the Vicente Calderón for several years, as [...]
