Football Stadia - Past, Present & Future

[Green]

The County Ground, Northampton

[Sutekh]

The County Ground, Northampton now

[Winston Biscuit]

Mmabatho Stadium, South Africa

[Sutekh]

Don't think that'd get past health and safety over here.

[Winston Biscuit]

Stadiums of Independiente & Racing Club in Buenos Aires, just 300 metres from each other. 2 of the so called 'big 5' in Argentinian football.

[Green]

Stadiums of Independiente & Racing Club in Buenos Aires, just 300 metres from each other. 2 of the so called 'big 5' in Argentinian football.

Who are the other three, and are there any outside BA?

[Clyde1998]

Stadiums of Independiente & Racing Club in Buenos Aires, just 300 metres from each other. 2 of the so called 'big 5' in Argentinian football.

Who are the other three, and are there any outside BA?

I'm guessing River Plate, Boca Juniors and San Lorenzo are the other three. I think they're all based in BA.

[Winston Biscuit]

Stadiums of Independiente & Racing Club in Buenos Aires, just 300 metres from each other. 2 of the so called 'big 5' in Argentinian football.

Who are the other three, and are there any outside BA?

I'm guessing River Plate, Boca Juniors and San Lorenzo are the other three. I think they're all based in BA.

correct.

Argentinian football has a lot of teams in the greater Buenos Aires region

the structure of their league keeps changing too. its quite nuts. They run 2 seasons every calendar year, with differences between the 2 seasons. its currently split into 2 x 14 team leagues. a few years ago they tried out 1 x 30 team league table and everyone played 30 games. 1 against the other 29 opponents and 1 extra in your derby match. Though some clubs don't have a derby in the same division so they were just matched up with each other and told it was their new derby

[From Despair To Where?]

IIRC, relegation in Argentina is (or was) determined by average points over the previous 3 seasons which was basically insurance for the big teams to avoid relegation every year as long as they didn't have 3 really shit seasons on the trot.

[Dirk Gently]

P*xford United release plans for their proposed new stadium

https://www.oufc.co.uk/news/2023/october/new-stadium-details/

[RG30]

https://planningregister.cherwell.gov.uk/Planning/Display/24/00539/F

Planning application for it.

[Winston Biscuit]

Estadio Monumental in Lima, Peru. The 2nd largest stadium in South America with a capacity of 80,000

[Winston Biscuit]

Underneath the Bernabeu, where they can store the pitch in 'greenhouses' or just grow new bits in there

[Brogue]

Mansfield announce new ground

[Deadlock]

Odi Stadium, Mabopane, South Africa




"Hold on" I hear you say, "isn't that Mmabatho Stadium in Mafikeng? It's at the top of this very page!"

Nope. Two stadiums built to the same design 245km apart, in what was then Bophuthatswana in the 1980s.



Odi Stadium was actually completed later, but has been abandoned for years and these days is mostly used as a source of building materials for the local populations.

I absolutely would hate to be on one of those floating stands.

[Clyde1998]

Holywood have announced they want to expand their ground up to 55,000 : https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/ar ... n1wegp847o

[From Despair To Where?]

Deluded as fcuk.

[Winston Biscuit]

Proposed new Greenlandic national stadium

Capacity 2000

[SouthDownsRoyal]

Holywood have announced they want to expand their ground up to 55,000 : https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/ar ... n1wegp847o

LOL

[Sutekh]

Deluded as fcuk.

Be fair, they need somewhere for all the glory hunters and celebrity posers (+ entourages), as well as all the cameras once they start making the film.