Comments on: The 10 Largest Football Stadiums In The World

By: maestro96

maestro96 — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:16:06 +0000

MCG is a great stadium. It has to be cricket’s best stadium.

Btw, you forgot to mention Real Madrid’s home turf under which some of the greatest players have played their football week in week out.

By: Irish Nick

Irish Nick — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:31:31 +0000

Regarding the comment about Soccer City, the term ‘soccer’ is not exclusive to north america at all. In ireland it is common, to distinguish the sport from Gaelic Football. And more importantly in England well into the 70s the term was used as a more white-collar term and ‘football’ was the working class name for the sport.

By: JasD

JasD — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:07:24 +0000

you are wrong,when united came to malaysia,40000 people showed up for their training,the game itself had around 85000 fans

By: lorne greene

lorne greene — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:00:17 +0000

Wasnt south africa some kind of
english, dutch, germanic colony?

Where the hell did they
get Soccer City name?

I thought it was just a US (and its
canadian colony) thing?

By: bomaz

bomaz — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:32:44 +0000

San Siro has capacity of 80.065

source: http://www.inter.it/it/biglietti/ssiro.html

By: Murph

Murph — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:13:24 +0000

@Ray

No Ray, it doesn’t.

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:24:01 +0000

San Siro has a capacity of 90 000

By: Chris Mann

Chris Mann — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:35:38 +0000

@trstra

But the Strahov is only used as a training ground.

@CrazyMike

OK, I wasn’t aware of that. Thanks for the info.

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:23:51 +0000

Although I believe it’s technically correcct, it’s important to note that, just as the maracaná was filled to 200,000, many many stadiums in South America often surpass their listed capacity, and double it for important matches. This is largely due to the fact that south american stadia traditionaly have very few seats. The majority of the capacity is made up of standing room, or concrete bleachers, which effectively turn into standing room. With no safety regulations, or the importance of making money given a greater priority that safety, clubs often sell as many tickets as they think they can.

By: CrazyMike366

CrazyMike366 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:19:18 +0000

@Chris Mann

Actually, the Rose Bowl hosted several high profile soccer matches this summer, including a Chelsea-Inter friendly which I attended (84,000) and an LA Galaxy-Barcelona friendly (93,000). It also hosted the ’94 World Cup Final (94,000 sellout) and ’99 Women’s World Cup Final (94,000 sellout) and the best attended club soccer match in US history during an LA Galaxy game in ’96 v. Tampa Bay (93,500). Though it hasn’t regularly hosted a team in recent years, it served as the home of the Galaxy for 7 years from 1996 to 2003 until the opening of Home Depot Center in Carson.