Engenhão, officially called Estádio Olimpico Municipal João Havelange and also referred to as Stadium Rio, is the home of Botafogo FR. It is also the stadium where CR Flamengo and Fluminense FC play most of their home matches while the Maracaña is under construction. The stadium has a capacity of [...]
Estádio do Morumbi is the home of São Paulo FC. The stadium has an official capacity of 72,809, though the actual available tickets for a match tend to be about 10,000 less. In the early 1950s São Paulo started a search for a site to build a new stadium. They [...]
Estádio do Pacaembu is the home of SC Corinthians Paulista. The stadium has a capacity of 40,199 places. Estádio do Pacaembu officially opened on the 27th of April 1940. The first match, as part of a double match, was played one day later between Palmeiras and Coritiba (6-2). The match was [...]
Estádio Urbano Caldeira, more commonly known as Vila Belmiro, is the home of Santos FC. The stadium has a capacity of 15,800 places. In the first decades of the 20th century Santos shared a small ground with several other teams, but after a series of conflicts it decided to buy [...]
Estádio São Januário, nicknamed A Colina (The Hill), is the home of CR Vasco da Gama. The stadium has a capacity of 24,584 seats. São Januário opened on the 21st of April 1927 with a match between Vasco da Gama and Santos (5-3). The first goal was scored by Santos [...]
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. [...]
