• Wembley Stadium

    Wembley Stadium

    Wembley Stadium is, after Camp Nou, the second largest stadium in Europe and the standard playing venue of the English national team. It also hosts, among others, the annual League Cup final, [...]

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  • San Siro

    San Siro

    Stadio San Siro, officially called Stadio Guiseppe Meazza, is the home of Milan clubs AC Milan and FC Internazionale. The stadium has a capacity of 80,018 seats. The construction of the stadium [...]

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  • Old Trafford

    Old Trafford

    Old Trafford is the second largest stadium in England and home to Manchester United FC. The stadium has a capacity of 75,811 seats. In the first decade of the 20th century Manchester [...]

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  • Luzhniki Stadium

    Luzhniki Stadium

    Luzhniki Stadium is the home stadium of FC Spartak Moscow. With a capacity of 84,735 seats it is the largest stadium in Russia and one of the largest in Europe. After the [...]

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  • Camp Nou

    Camp Nou

    Camp Nou is the largest football stadium in Europe and home to FC Barcelona. It has a capacity of 99,354 seats. Camp Nou was built between 1954 and 1957, getting officially opened [...]

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  • Estádio Municipal de Braga

    Estádio Municipal de Braga

    Estádio Municipal de Braga, since 2007 unofficially renamed Estádio AXA, is the distinctive stadium of Sporting Clube de Braga. It has a capacity of 30,154 seats. The stadium, designed by Portuguese architect [...]

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  • Stamford Bridge

    Stamford Bridge

    Stamford Bridge is one of the oldest stadiums in England and home to Chelsea FC. It has a current capacity of 41,837 seats. The stadium officially opened on the 28th of April [...]

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  • Ibrox Stadium

    Ibrox Stadium

    Ibrox has been the home of Rangers FC for over a century. It currently holds a capacity of 51,082 seats. Rangers FC moved to the current Ibrox in 1899, leaving behind the [...]

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  • Anfield

    Anfield

    Anfield is one of the oldest grounds in England and home of Liverpool FC. It has a capacity of 45,522 seats. After Anfield opened in 1884 it got initially rented by Everton [...]

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  • Estadio Santiago Bernabéu

    Estadio Santiago Bernabéu

    Estadio Santiago Bernabéu is the third largest stadium of Europe and home to Real Madrid CF. It currently has a capacity of 85,454 seats. In the early decades of the 20th century [...]

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  • Celtic Park

    Celtic Park

    Celtic Park is the largest football stadium of Scotland and home to Celtic FC. The stadium currently has a capacity of 60,500 seats. The club moved to the current Celtic Park in [...]

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  • Petrovsky Stadium

    Petrovsky Stadium

    Petrovsky Stadium is the home stadium of FC Zenit. It has a capacity of 22,025 seats. Petrovsky Stadium got built in 1925, and opened on the 26th of July of that year. [...]

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  • Estádio José Alvalade

    Estádio José Alvalade

    Estádio José Alvalade is the home stadium of Sporting Clube do Portugal. It has a capacity of 50,049 seats. Construction of the stadium began in 2001 and finished in August 2003. The [...]

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  • St James’ Park (Sports Direct Arena)

    St James’ Park (Sports Direct Arena)

    St James’ Park, currently temporarily renamed Sports Direct Arena, is the home of Newcastle United FC. It is the sixth biggest stadium in England with a capacity of 52,339 seats, and has [...]

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  • Signal Iduna Park

    Signal Iduna Park

    Signal Iduna Park, before 2005 called Westfalenstadion, is the largest stadium of Germany with a capacity of 80,720, of which 25,000 standing places. Borussia Dortmund plays its home matches at the stadium, [...]

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  • PGE Arena Gdańsk

    PGE Arena Gdańsk

    The PGE Arena is the recently built home stadium of Lechia Gdańsk, and one of the playing venues during Euro 2012. The stadium has a capacity of 42,105 seats. The PGE Arena [...]

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  • Amsterdam ArenA

    Amsterdam ArenA

    The Amsterdam ArenA has been the home of AFC Ajax since 1996. It is the largest stadium of the Netherlands with a capacity of 52,960 seats. In the early 90s Ajax’s former [...]

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Lyon Receives Building Permit for Grand Stade

Lyon Receives Building Permit for Grand Stade 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 [...]

The Premier League Stadiums in Numbers

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The Premier League Stadiums in Numbers 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 Clashes in Egypt Cost at Least 74 Lives

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Supporter Clashes in Egypt Cost at Least 74 Lives 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 [...]

Borysiuk Refuses Move to Brugge as ‘Stadium too Ugly’

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Borysiuk Refuses Move to Brugge as ‘Stadium too Ugly’ 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 [...]

Spurs Receive Public Money Commitment

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Spurs Receive Public Money Commitment 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 Opens Up Football Stadiums for Women

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Saudi Arabia Opens Up Football Stadiums for Women 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, [...]

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Warsaw Celebrates National Stadium Opening

Warsaw Celebrates National Stadium Opening

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 [...]

Santos Reveal Tin Statue of Neymar

Santos Reveal Tin Statue of Neymar

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 Fed Up with Lack of Stadium Progress

Cagliari President Fed Up with Lack of Stadium Progress

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 [...]

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A Case of a New Stadium Done Wrong

A Case of a New Stadium Done Wrong

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.

Did Galatasaray Escape Disaster?

Did Galatasaray Escape Disaster?

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 [...]

Warsaw, Lady Gaga, Lady Pank, Chocolate, and Beer

Warsaw, Lady Gaga, Lady Pank, Chocolate, and Beer

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 [...]

Website updates

Your Stadium Requests

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 [...]

Welcome to Our New Site!

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 [...]

A Peek into Our Database

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 [...]

Recently added stadiums

Abe Lenstra Stadion

Abe Lenstra Stadion

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

Stade Francis-Le Blé

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 [...]

swissporarena

swissporarena

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 [...]