TOP 10 biggest football stadiums in Europe PART TWO 5-1

TOP 10 biggest football stadiums in Europe, Part two.

Continuing the post from yesterday. From 5th biggest stadium

to the biggest.

In the last post, i went through the TOP 10 biggest football stadiums from 10th to 6th. Now ill go

through the remaining 5 biggest stadiums in Europe.

TOP 10 biggest football stadiums in Europe, number 5:

Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Milan, Italy

Giuseppe Meazza, also known as San Siro. Home of two Italian heavyweights, Inter Milan and AC

Milan. For Inter Milan purposes, the stadium is called Giuseppe Meazza. Named after an 1920’s,

30’s and 40’s Italian player of legendary status. The stadium is located in San Siro district of

Milano, therefore the other name San Siro. For AC Milan purposes the stadium is called AC Milan.

Giuseppe Meazza/San Siro is gategory 4 ranked Stadium, by UEFA(like pretty much every other

top 50 stadiums in Europe). The capacity of the stadium is 81277, making it the 5th biggest football

stadium in Europe. For any football fan, its one of those “must see” stadiums due to its rich history

and beautiful architecture.

Giuseppe Meazza/San Siro has hosted many big events, such as: 6 FIFA World Cup matches in

1990 including one of the quarter-final matches. Four Champions league/European Cup final’s, in

1965, 1970, 1990 and the last year’s Champions League final where Real Madrid beat Atletico

Madrid on penalty shootout.

By Jose Luis Hidalgo R. – San Siro, CC BY 2.0, Link

TOP 10 biggest football stadiums in Europe, number 4:

Stade de France, Saint-Denis(Paris), France

Stade De France, is the national stadium of France. In other words, there is no club that calls the

stadium home. It was built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup in france. With a capacity of 81338 its the

4th biggest football stadium in Europe. A modern masterpiece of a football stadium. Certainly one

of the most beautiful stadiums in the world. Due to it having a full length athletics track around it,

it’s not the most intimate stadium. Therefore it might not be among the best FOOTBALL stadiums

in Europe, strictly because the atmosphere suffers a bit from the running track around the pitch. But

it is a marvellous piece of engineering, and beautiful stadium while at it.

Stade De France has been a host to number of big events, despite its “young age”: Stade de France

has hosted FIFA World Cup final, in 1998 and EURO 2016 final between Portugal and France. As

well as 2 Champions League final’s 2000 and 2006. Not to mention, a Rugby world cup final and

other big sporting events.

By George M. Groutas from Dali, Nicosia, Cyprus – Germany vs Poland 0-0, CC BY 2.0, Link

TOP 10 biggest football stadiums in Europe, number 3:

Westfalenstadion, Dortmund, Germany

Westfalenstadion, better known as Signal Iduna Park. Home of Borussia Dortmund(BVB). Signal

Iduna park has a capacity of 81360, making it the 3rd biggest football stadium in Europe. Although

that capacity is reduced to 65289(seated only) on FIFA/UEFA matches.

Signal Iduna Park is known for the fierce atmosphere(read: AWESOME) and the “yellow wall” the

intimidating south curve. Which is the biggest free-standing grandstand in Europe. Sight that will

make your hair stand on your arms as you see and hear them. Signal Iduna Park, is generally

considered the greatest football stadium in the world, in terms of fan atmosphere. Mainly but not

exclusively, because of that “Yellow Wall”.

Even though being the 3rd biggest football stadium in the world, Signal Iduna Park hasn’t hosted as

many big events as you might think of. They hosted the other semi-final on 2006 FIFA World cup,

as well as other smaller World Cup matches in 2006 and 1974. Signal Iduna Park also hosted the

2001 UEFA cup final(the previous version of Europa League). Definitely one of the football

stadiums every football fan has to experience once in their life.

By Dmitrij Rodionov – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

TOP 10 biggest football stadiums in Europe, number 2:

Wembley Stadium, London, England

Wembley Stadium, home of England national football team. Also home for Tottenham Hotspur

while their current home ground White hart lane is being demolished and the new stadium being

built. Wembley stadium is also the annual host of FA Cup Final. Other than Spurs vacating it in the

coming year or two, there is no club that calls it home. Wembley Stadium is owned by the English

Football association, better known as the “FA”.

Capacity of Wembley stadium is 90000(all seated), making it the second biggest football stadium in

Europe. Biggest football stadium in England and UK and biggest stadium overall in Britain.

Wembley Stadium also likely is the most expensive football stadium ever built, anywhere. The

building cost nearly £800million, £798million to be exact. That’s only for the actual stadium, the

transportation infrastructure developement and financing made the eventual cost of Wembley

Stadium close to an estimated £1billion.

The Wembley Stadium(new) was built on the location of the old one. Meaning the site needed to be

demolished and cleaned out before starting to construct the new one. Originally it was planned that

the stadium would be “up and running” in 2003. But after many twists, the construction only started

in 2003.

Eventually 4 years after the original plan, Wembley Stadium was handed over to the FA in 2007.

Despite being only 10 years old, the new Wembley Stadium has hosted many big events, such as:

UEFA Champions League finals in 2011 and 2013. Yearly FA Cup Final, League Cup Final,

League Playoff-finals, 2012 olympics football final’s(or gold medal games). Wembley Stadium will

also host the UEFA European Championship semi.finals and Final in 2020.

Wembley Stadium, is one of the most beautiful football stadiums in the world. The building cost

was absolutely ridiculous, but it might be worth all that money, if not already, it will be after the

EURO 2020.

By Øyvind Vik – Own work, Public Domain, Link

TOP 10 biggest football stadiums in Europe, number 1:

Camp Nou, Barcelona, Spain

The biggest football stadium in Europe, by quite a distance. Third largest football stadium in the

world. One of the most iconic stadium’s in the world. It may not be as aesthetically beautiful as

some other stadiums on the list, but its very beautiful in it’s on way. In a way it represent’s or at

least used to represent freedom to the people of Catalonia. Without going too much into politics,

let’s just say it has seen stuff, good and bad.

Capacity of Camp Nou is 99354, making it the biggest football stadium in Europe, by quite a

distance. At biggest the maximum capacity of Camp Nou was 121749 from 1980 to 1993 but it has

been changed many times due to new safety regulations.

Camp Nou has hosted many big events during the years, such as: FIFA World Cup semifinal in

1982, 1992 Olympics football matches, 2 Champions League finals: in 1989 while it was still called

European Cup and in 1999 Champions LEague final between Manchester United and Bayern

Munich. That particular final is one of the most iconic Champions League finals ever, due to its

dramatic developments on the injury time. Manchester United were 0-1 down vs Bayern, but scored

two goals on injury time to claim the Champions League title.

By Little Savage – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

Those are the TOP 10 biggest football stadiums in Europe, from 5th biggest Giuseppe MEazza/San

Siro, to the biggest one, Camp Nou. The previous 10th to 6th biggest football stadiums can be

found from the part 1.

This top 10 list is for FOOTBALL stadiums, purely based on capacity. Some of the big stadiums i

left out of the list with a purpose, for example: Twickenham stadium from London, with a capacity

of 82000 it would have been number 3 on the TOP 10 biggest football stadiums in Europe, but it’s

NOT a football stadium.

Original post can be found here: afootball.net/top-10-biggest-football-stadiums-part-two-5-1/

The previous post can be found from here: afootball.net/top-10-biggest-football-stadiums-part-one/