The Pepsi Arena is the recently built new stadium of KP Legia Warszawa. The stadium has a capacity of 31,000 seats. The Pepsi Arena officially opened on the 7th of August 2010 with a friendly match between Legia and Arsenal (6-5). The stadium replaced Legia’s previous ground, Stadion Wojska Polskiego [...]
The PGE Arena is the recently built home stadium of Lechia Gdańsk, and one of the playing venues during Euro 2012. The stadium has a capacity of 42,105 seats. The PGE Arena was built with the perspective of being one of the host stadiums during Euro 2012. Construction of the [...]
Stadion Cracovii is the home of MKS Cracovia. The stadium has a capacity of 15,016 seats. Stadion Cracovii opened on the 31st of March 1912 with a match between Cracovia and Pogoń Lwów. The stadium underwent several changes in the decades following, often following damages sustained by, among others, a [...]
Stadion Miejski is the home stadium of KKS Lech Poznań and will be one of the playing venues during the upcoming 2012 European Championships. It has a capacity of 43,269 seats. Stadio Miejski was built over a period of 12 years. First works started in 1968, but it took until [...]
Stadion Miejski im. Henryka Reymana is the home of Wisła Kraków SA. The stadium has a capacity of 32,804 seats. Stadion Miejski was built in 1953 on a plot of land next to Wisła’s old stadium. The stadium still included athletics tracks running around the pitch. The stadium set its [...]
Stadion Miejski w Kielcach is the home of Korona Kielce. The stadium has a capacity of 15,500 seats. Stadion Miejski was built on the same site as Kielce’s old stadium. Construction of the new stadium started in 2004 and was completed two years later. It officially opened on the 1st [...]
Stadion Miejski w Wrocławiu, or Municipal Stadium Wrocław, is the home stadium of WKS Śląsk Wrocław and one of the playing venues of Euro 2012. The stadium has a capacity of 44,901 seats, of which 2,130 VIP places. The stadium was built with the perspective of the upcoming Euro 2012 [...]
Stadion Narodowy w Warszawie (National Stadium Warsaw) is Poland’s recently built national stadium. It has a capacity of 58,145 seats. Though plans had existed before to build a new Polish national stadium, these were accelerated with Poland being granted the Euro 2012 Championships. The stadium was built [...]
Stadion w Zabrzu is the currently under construction new stadium of Górnik Zabrze. The stadium will have a capacity of 31,871 seats, almost three times the number Górnik’s previous stadium, Stadion im Ernesta Pohla, had before it got (partly) demolished. The new stadium will be built on the same site [...]
Stadion Zagłębia Lubin, until 2012 called Dialog Arena, is the home of Zagłębie Lubin SA. The stadium has a capacity of 16,068 seats. Stadion Zagłębia was built on the same site as Zagłębie’s old stadium. Construction began in 2007 and was done in two phases so that the club could [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
