The Parc des Princes is the home stadium of Paris Saint-Germain FC. It offers a capacity of 48,527 seats. The Parc de Princes was designed with the aim of providing a venue for important rugby and football matches. Works started in 1968 when the Velodrome, that stood in its place, [...]
Stade Chaban-Delmas, until 2000 known as Parc Lescure, is the home of FC Girondins de Bordeaux. The stadium has a capacity of 34,263 seats. First football was played at the site of the stadium as early as 1912. However, it was only in 1938 that a proper football stadium was [...]
The Stade de France is the largest stadium in France and the stadium where the French national team plays most of its home matches. It has a capacity of 80,000 seats. Plans for the stadium were developed after France was awarded the 1998 World Cup. At that time no stadium [...]
Stade de la Mosson is the home of Montpellier HSC. The stadium has a capacity of 32,900 seats. Stade de la Mosson opened in 1972 and got further expanded in 1977 and in the 1980s. By the end of the 1980s the stadium could hold about 23,500 fans. The stadium [...]
Stade Geoffroy Guichard is the home of AS Saint-Etienne. The stadium currently has a capacity of 35,700 seats. Stade Geoffroy Guichard opened on the 13th of September 1931 with a match between AS Stéphanoise (which would later become Saint-Etienne) and AS Cannes (1-9). The stadium was built on a plot [...]
Stade Gerland is the home of Olympique Lyonnais. It has a capacity of 40,494 seats. The stadium was constructed in the 1920s and officially opened in May 1926. It was designed as a stadium for multiple sports and in its first decades little football was played at the stadium. It [...]
The Stade Velodrome is the home of Olympique de Marseille. The stadium currently has a reduced capacity of 42,000 seats due to the redevelopment works it is undergoing. Until the summer of 2011 it had a capacity of 60,031 seats. The stadium opened in 1937 with a friendly match between [...]
Stadium de Toulouse is the home stadium of Toulouse FC. It currently has a capacity of 35,472 seats. The stadium was built in 1937. One year later, at the 1938 World Cup, it hosted the match and rematch between Cuba and Romania in the first round of the tournament. The [...]
Houston Celebrate Opening of BBVA Compass Stadium
On Saturday the Houston Dynamo’s new stadium, the BBVA Compass Stadium, officially opened with a match between the Dynamo and DC United. The Dynamo celebrated the opening with a 1-0 win over the visitors from Washington DC. The BBVA Compass Stadium is the 14th soccer-specific stadium in the Major League [...]
Boca Juniors Wants to Build a New Stadium
Boca Juniors president Daniel Angelici has confirmed that the club is currently looking into the options of building a new stadium. The president did this in a radio interview while in Spain looking for investors in the club. He right away went into further detail [...]
Chelsea Submit Bid for Battersea Station Site
Chelsea’s interest in the Battersea Power Station site as a potential location for a future new stadium has been no secret, but the club has now officially submitted a bid for the iconic site. From the press release on its official website: [...]
Work Behind the Scenes on New AS Roma Stadium
A recently tweeted photo by AS Roma CEO Mark Pannes has confirmed that the club is currently working hard on realising a new stadium. The photo shows three men looking at a wall full of stadium photos and was accompanied by the following [...]
New Barcelona Stadium Back on the Table
FC Barcelona is again looking into the possibilities of either building a new stadium, or extensively renovating Camp Nou. This reports Spanish newspaper El Mundo Deportivo based on a strategic report the club will internally discuss in the upcoming weeks. The strategic report calls for the return of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Twenty Years Ago: The Bastia Stadium Disaster
No matches were played in Ligue 1 last Saturday. Instead the league commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Furiani stadium disaster which took the lives of 18 fans and injured hundreds more. The lead up to the disaster starts on the 22nd of April 1992. SC Bastia, from the football-mad [...]
The Stadiums that Could Have Been
Building a new football stadium is no easy task. It usually starts with an ambitious chairman enthusiastically announcing the plans, but all too often ends in frustration and sometimes resignation. Though in the end most stadium proposals manage to overcome [...]
Five Reasons Why Poland and Ukraine Won’t Be Another Portugal
With the European Championships still three months away, there is already plenty of talk about the legacy of the tournament. That is, experts are warning that Poland and the Ukraine might become the next Portugal. Or South Africa, speaking in World Cup terms. [...]
