Estádio Algarve is a stadium near the city of Faro. The stadium was built to serve as one of the playing venues during the Euro 2004 tournament, and has a capacity of 30,305 seats, of which 320 places for VIPs. Construction of the stadium was completed late 2003, and the [...]
Estádio D. Afonso Henriques is the home of Vitória Sport Clube (Vitória de Guimarães). The stadium counts with a capacity of 30,000 seats. The stadium, then still called Estádio Municipal de Guimarães, opened in 1965. During its history the stadium underwent two major redevelopments, the first in 1991 for the [...]
Estádio da Luz, officially named Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, is the home of SL Benfica and was host to the Euro 2004 final. The stadium has a capacity of 64,400 seats, of which more than 7,000 business seats. The new Estádio da Luz replaced Benfica’s old stadium with [...]
Estádio do Dragão was built to provide FC Porto with a modern home and Euro 2004 with one of its flagship venues. It replaced FC Porto’s previous ground the Estádio das Antas, and has a capacity of 50,399 seats. The stadium is estimated to have cost €98 million. It was [...]
Estádio dos Barreiros XXI is the home of CS Marítimo. The stadium offers a capacity of 8,918 seats. Estádio dos Barreiros officially opened on the 5th of May 1957. In the following fifty years only minor changes were made to the stadium such as the conversion of the standing places [...]
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 [...]
Estádio Municipal de Braga, since 2007 unofficially renamed Estádio AXA, is the distinctive stadium of Sporting Clube de Braga. It has a capacity of 30,154 seats. The stadium, designed by Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura, was built with the objective of serving as one of the playing venues at [...]
Houston’s BBVA Compass Stadium Nearing Completion
Houston has been one of the last MLS clubs to build a soccer-specific stadium, however it also seems to become one of the finest ones. Houston started construction of the stadium in February 2011, and has the stadium planned to be completed in May of this year. Houston Dynamo will [...]
Bristol Rovers Confident of New Stadium Prospects
Bristol Rovers have vowed to move on with their plans to build a new stadium at the University of the West of England site, regardless of whether Bristol Rugby club will join them there. The football and rugby club currently share the Memorial Stadium, and [...]
Lyon Receives Building Permit for Grand Stade
The local council of Lyon suburb Décines has finally signed the building permit for Lyon’s proposed 58,000-seater. The signature brings a long process, that started almost five years ago, to an end, and frees up the way for the start of construction works. The stadium, which will be a prominent [...]
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 [...]
Fulham Advances with Craven Cottage Development Plans
Fulham FC has revealed further information about their plans to develop Craven Cottage, including some new drawings of the proposed Riverside Stand. The club has a long-standing desire to increase capacity and modernise 105-year-old Craven Cottage and has in the past even [...]
Atlético Madrid Presents New Stadium Plans
Last Monday Atlético Madrid unveiled their plans to build a new stadium in the east of Madrid. The stadium will have a capacity of 67,500 seats, about 12,000 more than fit in the current Estadio Vicente Calderón. Atlético had been looking for a move from the Vicente Calderón for several years, as [...]
