Stade de France
July 19, 2009 by admin
The Stade de France is the national stadium of France, situated in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis. It has an all-seater capacity of 80,000 and is used for the French rugby union team during the Six Nations and other major internationals. The French football team also use the stadium for almost every home game, and it was there where... [Read the rest of this article]
Santiago Bernabéu
Estadio Santiago Bernabéu is a football stadium in the Chamartín distric of Madrid, Spain. It was inaugurated on December 14, 1947 and is owned by the Real Madrid football club. With a capacity of 80,354 spectators in 2007, it was named as a UEFA Elite Five-Star Stadium in 2007. The Bernabéu is one of the world’s most famous... [Read the rest of this article]
Westfalenstadion
July 19, 2009 by admin
Westfalenstadion is a football stadium in the German city of Dortmund in the industrial metropolitan area of the Ruhrgebiet (“Ruhrpott”). The stadium is officially named Signal Iduna Park under a sponsorship arrangement lasting from December 2005 until June 2011, giving naming rights to the Signal Iduna Group, an insurance... [Read the rest of this article]
Twickenham Stadium
July 19, 2009 by admin
Twickenham Stadium (usually known as just Twickenham or Twickers) is a stadium located in Twickenham, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is the largest rugby union stadium in the United Kingdom and has recently been enlarged to seat 82,000. This makes it the second largest stadium in the UK after Wembley Stadium and... [Read the rest of this article]
Croke Park Stadium
July 19, 2009 by admin
Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland is the largest sports stadium in Ireland and the principal stadium and headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association, Ireland’s biggest sporting organisation. The stadium is in the heart of the city, a 15 minute walk from the main thoroughfare O’Connell Street. Since 1884 the site has been used... [Read the rest of this article]
Olimpiysky
July 19, 2009 by admin
The Olimpiysky National Sports Complex (also known as Olympic Stadium, Republican Stadium or Central Stadium; Ukrainian: “Olimpiys’kyĭ”) is a multi-use sports facility in Kiev, Ukraine, located on the slopes of city’s central Cherepanov Hill. The stadium is the premier sports venue of Ukraine and one of the world’s... [Read the rest of this article]
San Siro
The Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, more commonly called Stadio San Siro, is a football stadium in Milan, Italy. It is the home of A.C. Milan and F.C. Internazionale Milano. The stadium is named in honour of Giuseppe Meazza, the two-time World Cup winner (1934, 1938) who played both for Internazionale and Milan in the 1930s and 1940s. History The... [Read the rest of this article]
Estádio do Morumbi
May 18, 2009 by admin
Estádio Cícero Pompeu de Toledo is a stadium in São Paulo, Brazil, popularly known as Estádio do Morumbi, or just Morumbi, because of its location in the city’s Morumbi neighborhood. It is the home ground of São Paulo Futebol Clube and its formal name honors Cícero Pompeu de Toledo, who was São Paulo FC’s chairman during... [Read the rest of this article]