The Arena Naţională is the recently built new national stadium of Romania. The stadium has a capacity of 55,634 seats. The Arena Naţională got build on the site of Romania’s previous national stadium, Stadional Naţional Lia Manoliu, which closed its doors in 2007. Construction of the new stadium began in [...]
The Aviva Stadium is the national stadium of Ireland and the regular playing venue of the Irish national team. It also hosts most of the nation’s major rugby matches. The stadium has a capacity of 50,000 seats. The Aviva Stadium was built on the place of Lansdowne Road Stadium, one [...]
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 [...]
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 stadium was officially opened on the 6th of that month with a friendly match between Sporting and Manchester [...]
Etihad Stadium, previously called the City of Manchester Stadium and also known as Eastlands, is the home ground of Manchester City FC. The stadium has a capacity of 48,000 seats. The Etihad Stadium was built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games, but was converted after the games into a football stadium [...]
Hampden Park is the Scottish national stadium, venue of the Scottish Cup final, and home to the oldest club in Scotland, Queens Park FC. The stadium has a capacity of 52,000 seats. In the 1880s and 1890s Queens Park regularly drew home crowds of 10,000, and plans were made for [...]
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, [...]
Parken is the largest football stadium in Denmark, the home of F.C. København (also FCK or FC Copenhagen), and the standard playing venue of the Danish national team. The stadium has a capacity of 38,065 seats. Parken was built on the site of Denmark’s previous national stadium, Idrætspark, which had [...]
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, which has also been host to a large number of international matches. The stadium has the largest stand [...]
Şükrü Saracoğlu is the home stadium of Fenerbahçe SK. The stadium has a capacity of 50,530 seats. First matches at the site of the current stadium were played in 1908. Fenerbahçe moved into the stadium in 1929, buying the ground a few years later. By the late 1940s the stadium [...]
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. [...]
