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Check out all the stadiums you could be playing at if you became a pro!
English Stadiums:
Stadium: Wembley.
Location: London.
Capacity: 90,000.
Team: England.
Fact: Wembley is the seventh largest football stadium in the world.
Stadium: Old Trafford.
Location: Manchester.
Capacity: 76,212.
Team: Manchester United.
Fact: Old Trafford is also known as the Theatre of Dreams.
Stadium: Emirates Stadum.
Location: London.
Capacity: 60,355.
Team: Arsenal.
Fact: The Emirates Stadium is the newest Premier League ground after opening in 2006. Arsenal’s previous stadium was called Highbury.
Stadium: St. James’ Park.
Location: Newcastle.
Capacity: 52,387.
Team: Newcastle United.
Fact: St. James’ Park was one of only four stadiums in England selected to host a number of football matches at the 2012 London Olympics.
Stadium: Anfield.
Location: Liverpool.
Capacity: 45,362.
Team: Liverpool.
Fact: Between 1884 and 1892 Anfield was actually Everton’s home ground.
Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium.
Location: Manchester.
Capacity: 47,726.
Team: Manchester City.
Fact: The City of Manchester Stadium is also known as the Etihad Stadium.
Spanish Stadiums:
Stadium: Nou Camp.
Location: Barcelona.
Capacity: 99,394.
Team: FC Barcelona.
Fact: The stadium was first opened in September 1957.
Stadium: Santiago Bernabéu.
Location: Madrid.
Capacity: 85,454.
Team: Real Madrid.
Fact: The stadium’s construction cost was a massive €1,732,943!
Stadium: Mestalla.
Location: Valencia.
Capacity: 55,000.
Team: Valencia.
Fact: During the Civil War the Mestalla was in fact used as a concentration camp and storage warehouse.
Stadium: Vicente Calderón Stadium.
Location: Madrid.
Capacity: 54,851.
Team: Atletico Madrid.
Fact: The stadium is called the Vicente Calderón Stadium, after the famous Atlético club president.
Stadium: Stade de France.
Location: Paris.
Capacity: 81,338.
Team: France.
Fact: The stadium is also used by the French national rugby team.
French Stadiums:
Stadium: Stade Veledrome
Location: Marseille
Capacity: 60,013
Team: Olympique de Marseille
Fact: Rhe stadium hosted matches in both the 1938 and 1998 World Cups.
Stadium: Stade Pierre-
Location: Villeneuve-
Capacity: 50,186.
Team: Lille OSC.
Fact: The stadium isn’t just used for football. Rihanna performed there as part of her World Tour in July 2013.
Stadium: Parc des Princes.
Location: Paris.
Capacity: 48,712.
Team: PSG.
Fact: The stadium has previously been the finish for the Tour de France on 54 occasions.
German Stadiums:
Stadium: Signal Iduna Park.
Location: Dortmund.
Capacity: 80,720.
Team: Borussia Dortmund.
Fact: The stadium established the European record in average fan attendance in 2004–2005 with a total of 1.354 million fans.
Stadium: Olympiastadion Berlin.
Location: Berlin.
Capacity: 77,166.
Team: Hertha BSC.
Fact: The current Olympiastadion was originally built for the 1936 Summer Olympics and suffered little damage during World War Two.
Stadium: Allianz Arena.
Location: Munich.
Capacity: 71,901.
Team: Bayern Munich.
Fact: The Allianz Arena has a luminous exterior and lights up different colours on the outside.
Stadium: Mercedes-
Location: Stuttgart.
Capacity: 60,469.
Team: Baden-
Fact: Between 1933 and 1945, the stadium was called Adolf Hitler Kampfbahn.
Italian Stadiums:
Stadium: San Siro.
Location: Milan.
Capacity: 80,074.
Teams: AC Milan, Inter Milan, Italy.
Fact: In the stadium there is a museum about AC Milan and Inter Milan’s history featuring lots of memorabilia.
Stadium: Stadio Olympico.
Location: Lazio.
Capacity: 72,700.
Teams: Lazio, Roma, Italy.
Fact: The Stadio Olympico has hosted national football and rugby matches as well as Olympic and World Cup games.
Stadium: Stadio San Paolo.
Location: Naples.
Capacity: 60,240.
Team: Napoli.
Fact: During the 2005–06 season, Napoli achieved the 3rd highest average home attendance throughout the whole of Italy.
Stadium: Stadio San Nicola.
Location: Bari.
Capacity: 58,248.
Teams: Bari.
Fact: The stadium resembles a flower. To create this effect, it consists of 26 'petals' and upper tiers of the higher ring.
World Stadiums:
Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium.
Location: Kolkata, India.
Capacity: 120,000.
Teams: Mohan Bagan AC, India.
Fact: The surface is in fact Astroturf.
Stadium: FNB Stadium.
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa.
Capacity: 94,700.
Team: South Africa.
Fact: It cost $440 million to construct.
Stadium: Azadi Stadium.
Location: Tehran, Iran.
Capacity: 95,225.
Teams: Esteghlal FC, Persepolis FC, Iran.
Fact: It was built to host the 1974 Asian Games.
Stadium: Estadio Azteca.
Location: Mexico City, Mexico.
Capacity: 104,000.
Teams: Club America, Mexico.
Fact: The first goal scored scored in the stadium was by the Brazilian Arlindo Dos Santos Cruz.
