Football stadium oddities/trivia

[Lady Whistledown]

Prompted by a FASCINATING similar thread on another board. Football grounds with unusual and/or interesting features & facts about them. GO.

SC Braga. Has a mountain at one end.

Atletico Madrid (the very Albion-named Stadio Vicente Calderon) has the Madrid ring road running underneath one stand.

Everton have their own church stuck inside Goodison Park

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

i'm going to enjoy this thread VERY much

bloody love STADIUMS

stadia?

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Singapore, Marina Bay. Made entirely of steel, the floating platform measures 390 feet long and 270 feet wide. It can bear up to 1,070 tonnes, equivalent to the total weight of 9,000 people, 200 tonnes of stage props and three 30-tonne military vehicles. The gallery at the stadium has a seating capacity of 30,000 people.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

This stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea, is- I believe- the largest football stadium in the world (currently in use), capacity 150,000. And is presumably also handy for mass adoration of the Dear/Great/Awesome Leader, as well as public executions. And it looks Coolio Iglesias.

 

[Badger]

Singapore, Marina Bay. Made entirely of steel, the floating platform measures 390 feet long and 270 feet wide. It can bear up to 1,070 tonnes, equivalent to the total weight of 9,000 people, 200 tonnes of stage props and three 30-tonne military vehicles. The gallery at the stadium has a seating capacity of 30,000 people.

...and it also has a Formula One racing circuit running through it for one weekend a year.

 

[8ace]

 

[The Large One]

I've been to that Braga ground. In fact, I was at that game shown in the picture. Two other things about that...

1. The quarry face is at the other end as well.
2. At ground level it was glorious and sunny. By the time I got to my seat on the top shelf, it was f***ing freezing.

 

[8ace]

It presently has a capacity of approximately 18,500 all seated, which is quite large relative to the population of Monaco (about 30,500); it can seat almost two-thirds of the country's population, a feat no other stadium can boast. The vast majority of the stadium's facilities are located underground, with a large car park directly under the pitch

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Arbroath's Gayfield Park is the closest ground to the sea in Britain. Not so fun when the tide comes in.

 

[banjo]

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

largest stadium in the world

not really in use any more, although i believe sparta prague train there.....you can fit NINE football pitches in it

 

[Art Vs Science]

Taiwan has what is being touted as the largest solar-powered stadium in the world, the 'World Games Stadium'. It comes with massive and gigantic solar panels which harnesses all the solar energy in order to generate electricity that could be used by the stadium. It has a 14,155 square meter roof and it harnesses about 1.4 gigawatt hours of electricity every year. The coolest part of the stadium is that when the stadium is not being used, 80% of the neighborhood around the stadium can also be powered through the electricity generated by the stadium on days when it is not being used

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Old Trafford was build with massively over-specified foundations. Tht is why they have been able to build up the height of the stadium relatively easily.

(I am no expert - so authoritative confirmation/denial welcomed).

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Bolton used to have a supermarket or cash & carry style place at one end of Burnden Park.

Anyway. Inverness Caledonian Thistle is the only stadium to be located on the side of a FIRTH. Whatever a firth is.

 

[banjo]

Wembley.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

not a football stadium, but this is the Deutsches Stadion....had it been built it would've had a capacity of 400,000

sadly for stadium lovers, a little thing called the second world war went and stopped construction

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Not part of the thread, but I just found this and thought it was a nice picture. Sniff. Seagulls.

 

[banjo]

Craven cottage.

 

[Simster]

It has supermarket at one end. This would be the dreary urban equivalent of a mountain then.
It has a f***ing dreadful "nightclub" in the main stand, which looks 50 years old.
It has a truly stand at one end that looks like a barn.

Quirky or utter wank? You decide.

 

[Butch Willykins]

This thread is like porn for me. I LOVE stadiums/Stadia