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 stadium De Meer proved to be too small with a capacity of just 19,000, and plans were made [...]
De Kuip, officially called Stadion Feijenoord, is one of the stadiums with the most hosted finals in European tournaments, and home to Feyenoord Rotterdam. It is the second largest stadium of the Netherlands with a capacity of 51,177 seats. In the early 1930s then Feyenoord president Van Zandvliet came up [...]
The GelreDome is the home of Vitesse Arnhem. During football matches the stadium has a capacity of 25,000 seats. The GelreDome was built to serve as a multifunctional stadium, and was the first football stadium in the world to have a retractable pitch. It was also, after the Amsterdam ArenA, [...]
The Jan Breydel Stadion is the home stadium of both Club Brugge KV and Cercle Brugge KSV. The stadium currently has a capacity of 29,042 seats, of which 463 business seats. The stadium got built in 1974 and opened one year later in 1975. The stadium was built by the [...]
The Philips Stadion has been home to PSV Eindhoven since the club’s foundation in 1913. The stadium has a capacity of 35,200 seats. The first ball was kicked at the ground on the 13th of August 1913 by the then 8 year old Frits Philips, son of Philips Electronics founder Anton [...]
Stade de Sclessin, officially named Stade Maurice Dufrasne, is the home of Royal Standard de Liège. It offers a capacity of 30,023 seats. The stadium opened in 1909 and reached its maximum capacity in the 1970s with 43,000. The stadium organised the match for third place during the Euro 1972 [...]
Stade du Pays de Charleroi is the home of Sporting de Charleroi. The stadium has a capacity of 25,000 seats. First football was played at the site of the stadium in 1923, however it took until 1939 before an actual stadium was built. In its first 60 years of its [...]
The Stade Roi Baudouin (French) – Koning Boudewijnstadion (Dutch) is the largest stadium of Belgium, and the stadium where the Belgian national team plays most of its home matches. It has a capacity of 50,093 seats. In 1927 the Brussels government decided to build a new stadium that could cater [...]
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. [...]
