Football Stadia - Past, Present & Future

[Winston Biscuit]

Villarreal has a population of 51,367
their home ground has a capacity of 23,000, so when it’s full, nearly 1 in 2 of them will be supporting their team.

yikes, can't miss that stadium.

a bit like Bursaspor's stadium

[Winston Biscuit]

do enjoy wandering around the streets outside a stadium on google street view. la Bombonera the obvious winner for that

Corinthians stadium is interesting. pitch is below ground level and so the lower tier of seating also is. they have put only 1 tier of seating behind the goals and then left the stadium open. when you drive past it just looks open and you can kind of see inside.

[Ark Royal]

For those that are interested, a football architecture exhibition opens 25th October at the Tate RIBA in Liverpool.

https://www.architecture.com/explore-architecture/exhibitions/home-ground-the-architecture-of-football-exhibition

[stealthpapes]

I am, actually, thank you

[Whore Jackie]

Kudos to Wagner and co, if they can get this built in 5 years. Looks absolutely sensational IMHO.

[Brum Royal]

At least when they appoint a new manager they can put smoke up the chimneys

[South Coast Royal]

At least when they appoint a new manager they can put smoke up the chimneys

[BRO_BOT]

Kudos to Wagner and co, if they can get this built in 5 years. Looks absolutely sensational IMHO.

Not for me...looks a bit tacky.

[AthleticoSpizz]

Is this April 1st?
What a fukkin eyesore, Battersea Power Station at least served a purpose

[Sutekh]

Is this April 1st?
What a fukkin eyesore, Battersea Power Station at least served a purpose

+1

Are Brum moving elsewhere in Birmingham or to create this thing or just redeveloping Standrews?

[Winston Biscuit]

Love a quirky stadium, but thats just way too try-hard quirky for the sake of it.

[Brum Royal]

Is this April 1st?
What a fukkin eyesore, Battersea Power Station at least served a purpose

+1

Are Brum moving elsewhere in Birmingham or to create this thing or just redeveloping Standrews?

It's basically the other side of (ie inside) the ring road from where St Andrews is now. Probably easier to get to if you're walking out to the ground from the city centre, but going to be a pain to park anywhere near it I'd have thought unless they open up a load of the roads or knock down some of the existing warehouses in the area. There's not as much information out about this currently.

I do know through my contacts in the industry who the appointed consultants are for the project, and that the ground investigation is underway for the site, so some of the enabling works are already underway.