With our new design live in a few days, let’s have a look at the current status of our database. So far we’ve entered the details of a total of 109 stadiums. Of these, 94 fall into the present stadiums category. England is the country with the most entries, 18 in total, followed by Germany with 9, and Spain and Italy with each 8 entries. Needless to say that London is the city best represented with 7 stadiums.
The largest stadium on the site is the Estadio Azteca, which has a capacity of 104,000 seats, and the smallest Seacon Stadion -De Koel- in the Netherlands with a capacity of 8,000 seats. On average the stadiums in our database have a capacity of around 45,000. Needless to say that we have chosen to include the most important stadiums first, which tend to be relatively large. Right now, 60% of the recorded stadiums have a capacity of 60,000 or more, but we expect this figure to become smaller as our database grows.
The oldest stadium in our database is Stamford Bridge, opened in 1877, whereas we have 5 stadiums that saw their first match played in 2011. Obviously this was partly triggered by Euro 2012, however these also included the Juventus Stadium and the Türk Telekom Arena in Istanbul. Most productive years in terms of stadium construction were 2003, again triggered by European Championships, and 1923, with such gems as the old Wembley and the Belgian Bosuilstadion.
Remarkably, only one new stadium was built in the complete 1980s, the Stade Louis II, which are even less than in the decades that were plagued by a World War.
Of course, these statistics may, and some surely will, change with the inclusion of more stadiums. We therefore hope to present you more, and more detailed, statistics in the upcoming months.