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 [...]
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 [...]
There are less than 40 days to go before the start of Euro 2012, but instead of looking ahead, we are taking the opportunity to look back. Because when on the 8th of June Poland and Greece kick-off the tournament, most people will have all but forgotten about what went [...]
Estádio Independência, home of América Futebol Clube, is likely not a football stadium that will ring a bell among many football fans. And even in its own city of Belo Horizonte, a good 400 kilometres north of Rio de Janeiro, it gets eclipsed by the larger and more famous Mineirão. [...]
We are 800 days away from the start of the 2014 World Cup and for this occasion the Brazilian Ministry of Sport has released a series of photos that show how construction works are progressing. The issues plaguing the preparations have been well documented, so this is a great opportunity [...]
Stadium naming rights deals have become a significant source of income for many clubs, up to the point that a chairman is willing to throw one of the most classic stadium names away (and his remaining popularity with the fans) in favour of a sponsor name. In the Major League [...]
Last month we took a look at the 20 Premier League stadiums. This month we will look at the statistics of the 18 Bundesliga stadiums. So to get started with their most obvious feature: the Bundesliga stadiums are large, almost without exception. Whereas the Premier League stadiums averaged a capacity [...]
It was only ten years ago that the Major League Soccer seemed to die a slow death. The league was left to only 10 clubs, average attendances were stuck at about 14,000, and several play-off games failed to even attract a crowd of 10,000 fans. And as [...]
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. [...]
Every week all over the world football fans pay fortunes to see their favourite team in action. That’s not to say that every fan pays an equal amount, and some will feel more hard-done by than others after their team announced another price hike. But how much do [...]
Last Saturday Fenerbahçe played its second match with a women and kids only crowd at the Şükrü Saracoğlu. The match is the result of a creative solution by the club after the Turkish FA initially told the club to play two matches behind closed doors as a result of fan [...]
The Arena do Jacaré, which literally translates into Alligator Arena, is the home of relatively anonymous EC Democrata from the small Bazilian city of Sete Lagoas, which lies about 60 kilometres north-east of Belo Horizonte. EC Democrata has never really made it to the upper leagues of the Brazilian Championships, [...]
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. [...]
