![]() ![]() MetLife Stadium has been named “Highest Grossing Stadium of the Year” 9 times by Billboard and “2017 Venue of the Year” by StadiumBusiness. Event highlights include the first outdoor, cold-weather Super Bowl XLVIII, WrestleMania 29 and 35, the Copa America Centenario Final, the 2021 Army-Navy Game, and many concerts, college football games, and international soccer matches. MetLife Stadium has hosted over 550 major events and 3,000 special events. MetLife Stadium hosts the world's biggest events on the world's biggest stage and will serve as a host stadium for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. It is one of the largest stadiums in the NFL with a capacity of 82,500. There are three rows of wood seats on the balcony where the players’ families sit during the game.Īnother must-see Premier League stadium is Bramall Lane at Sheffield United, known by Blades as “Beautiful Downtown Bramall Lane.” And it truly is downtown, just minutes from the train station.MetLife Stadium, located in East Rutherford, NJ, is the home of the New York Jets and New York Football Giants. The designer forgot to include dressing rooms, so they added the cabin! It still hosts the tiny dressing rooms and manager’s office. The most famous thing about the Fulham stadium is the cottage itself (right), which was built with the Haynes Stand in 1904. The other three stands are much more modern, but just to walk up Stevenson Road for a game at Fulham makes you think it’s still the 1870s, when the club was founded. The Johnny Haynes Stand at Fulham’s Craven Cottage is actually a historically protected building, one reason it hasn’t been updated (you might wish this were different when you try to pee at halftime). The cottage itself at the Fulham stadium. ![]() Both it and Burnley itself are probably smaller than you think: The Clarets average 20,000 a game in a town of 73,000. Burnley’s home since 1883 is also the longest continually used stadium ever to be in the Premier League. Next up is Burnley’s Turf Moor - what a name. The Gwladys Street End is another Leitch stand from 1938. The Goodison Road Stand was built in 1971 but isn’t actually straight one end curves in a bit because the property itself isn’t square. ![]() The Bullens Stand was built in 1926 and only updated for fire safety in 1960 it’s one of only three that still has its distinctive trusses from famed architect Archibald Leitch. It’s tucked into a neighborhood so tightly there’s a church inside it there are pubs directly across a small street it remains beautiful and old-fashioned its wood seats are cramped views are obstructed everybody agrees it has to be replaced and everyone is sad about that fact.Īmericans: Imagine if you knew the Cubs were about to leave Wrigley. You would hurry up and go, right? Let’s start with Everton stadium, Goodison Park. They call it the Grand Old Lady, and Goodison Park defines many of the things I love about English soccer stadiums. Check Out Our Map of English Football Clubs Premier League Stadiums in our Football Ground Guide So put these English football stadiums, from the top two divisions, high on your list to visit on your next trip to England ( and let us help you plan it!). Or just contemplate Wrigley or Fenway coming down. In the States, think about the Polo Grounds giving way to Shea Stadium, or Comiskey Park giving way to wherever the White Sox play now. Want to see what I mean about these modern stadiums? Go to Southampton, Stoke, Sunderland, Reading, Leicester, or Swansea. They are tearing down old grounds full of character and history, but lacking in space and facilities and corporate boxes, and replacing them with clean, comfortable, sterile, and utterly crap stadiums that everyone seems to agree are better and necessary as well as boring and awful. The Older English Football Stadiums Are Being Replacedįor about twenty years now, England has been engaging in a slow-motion bad idea-similar to something America did in the 1960s and 1970s. They aren’t the most comfortable, but they are right in the middle of town, are beloved by fans, and are a part of the fabric of their club. Many English clubs are building fancy modern homes, like the new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.įor us at Groundhopper Soccer Guides, though, it’s all about the historic soccer stadiums in England, the ones that have housed their clubs for many decades. Stadiums can be all sorts of shapes, sizes and styles, and they can have very different sets of characteristics. What makes English Football Grounds so Great? ![]()
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