Potential Stadia for Englands 2018 World Cup Bid
FIFA have certain rules and regulations for stadium selection in World Cup bids. There will need to be at least ten stadiums put forward all with 40,000 capacity or above, plus at least two stadia must be 60,000 plus capacity, for the opening match, the semi-finals and the final of the World Cup. A further current regulation is that only two of the stadiums can be in the same city.We expect some of the following stadia to be used in 2018 if England are successful with their bid:
These are just a list of potential venues at present, FIFA’s two stadia per city rule, means many London based grounds may not be included even though the stadiums are of a very high quality. Also currently some stadiums lack the necessary access for the media and press, whilst there are also many stadiums which aren’t yet at a suitable capacity but by 2018 they could easily be large enough for World Cup games.
Opening game, Final, Semi Final, Quarter Final, Knock-out phase, Group phase:
Semi Final, Quarter Final, Knockout phase, Group Phase:
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Old Trafford, Manchester
Capacity 76,312
Team: Manchester United |
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New Anfield, Liverpool
Capacity 61,000
Team: Liverpool |
Knockout phase, Group phase:
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Villa Park, Birmingham
Capacity 43,300
Team: Aston Villa |
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St Mary’s Stadium, Southampton
Capacity 30,000
Team: Southampton |
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Madjeski Stadium, Reading
Capacity 24,200
Team: Reading |
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Pride Park, Derby
Capacity 30,000
Team: Derby County |
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Ricoh Arena, Coventry
Capacity 32,000
Team: Coventry City |
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Kingston Communications Stadium, Hull
Capacity 25,400
Team: Hull City |
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Every one is slagging off the madejski stadium in reading without actually realising that if… no WHEN we are promoted the sponsorship deal with vodafone has been organised as has a stadium upgrade to 40,000 seats…. the town is on the verge of becoming a city and is constantly growing… plenty of hotels and things are being built and it is right on the M4 motorway it is the perfect place for world cup games for the smaller teams like new zealand, slovakia etc..
why not leicester city staium its a awsome stadium better the mk dons stadium
sorry about before but i mean meam stadium
Its all good saying the stadiums will be increased by say 20.000. But after the world cup how will say birmingam bristol ipswich sunderland fill the stadiums if they cant fill them now they wont fill it say 15-25% bigger. So logically how can these football clubs financially biuld and suvive with bigger stadiums same crowd the revenue from each home game would not be enough for the clubs to keep a bigger stadium. To where newcastle liverpool tottenham? chelsea could and would fill there grounds so it would be wise for these to consider to build or upgrade as big as possible. Also sunderland is not a suburb of newcastle they play games on seperate days ie,newc=home sun=away because norhumbria police operate in both cities and with the metro now going to sunderland it is to dangerous for the non football residents to travel and be in the cities with the police force strech to its limits.
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Hey, what about Stoke-on-Trent’s Britanna Stadium, just a high capacity as some of the smaller stadiums, perfect for group stage matches because access to and from the stadium is so great, with the A50 & A500, and then just along the A500 is the M6
We can only win the bid if we have a little help from our family..The Britishiles. If it were the British isles we can boast The Millenium stadium in Cardiff, Ibrox park in Glasgow, Croke park in Dublin and Murryfield in Edinbough. England is only 50 000 square miles, thats pidly and half the stadiums we have put forward are old under sized dumps. If Germany in 2006 set the standard we can match them with a whole British wide effort and that includes the magnificent Twickingham stadium all 82 000 of it, bigger than any ground in Germany.As things stand we look dead.
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Specially to Michael Lee:
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I would also like to add that the City Of Manchester Stadium is likely to be expanded to an 80,000+ stadium with a third tier being seriously considered by the board – not like we don’t have the money!!!!
I like the list of stadia, however, I would like to see some changes made to this website as in updating the capacities etc..
I think they should make it scotland and england as you would be able to use Hampden and Celtic Park, Ibrox is a disgrace and im a ger!!
Why Hull ????? If you were picking them , why not Leeds or Huddersfield??
They have motorways at either side and easier to get to .
rest of the stadiums are good choices
Include the Millenium Stadium
Look we have great stadiums but compared to Spain and the U.S we have no chance of hosting 2018. I mean its a maricle that we got 2012 olympics
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Spain and Portugal have better stadiums than England. Portugal organise very good the 2004 Eurocup and in Spain are very big and beatiful stadiums like Santiago Bernabeu(80,000), Nou Camp(98,000), New Mestalla(74,000), La Peineta(70,000),La Cartuja(58,000), Monjuit(55.000),New Saint Mames(53,000), New Romareda(50.000)… I think the Iberian bid is better than England and U.S no have posibilities
Twickenham should be considered as it has one of Englands highest staium capacities as well as having some great places nearby. Richmond Park or Richmond Green would be a great place to set up big screens and it has links to London via train & underground.
Some of the stadiums up for the chance to host games are just stupid suggestions. MK dons do not have the stadium nor the prestigious reputation and with the whole world watching us we dont need tourists stuck in Milton Keynes its laughable. Instead of small stadiums like that use a place like twickenham its a good 80,000 seats and group games could eeasily be held there and goodison park isnt even mentioned yet its a premier league team so has some great facilities. Sort it out and use the best stadiums instead of trying to spread it out using little stadiums we wont have this chance again for a long time make good use of the oppertunity
Stadiums should be Wembley
Old Trafford
The Emirates
Eastlands (be made a lot bigger by the arabs)
Anfield (same stadium but upgraded)
St James Park
Elland Road (upgraded)
Stadium of Light (upgraded)
Stadium MK
New Home Park (new stadium)
Football should come home we will expand we are the homeland of football.
its in our veins
hmm why not goodison park?
no mention of leeds in there.i thought they wood get a couple of games, nailed on
YOU MISSED OUT THE REEBOK STADIUM in BOLTON its perfect location and it is a brilliant stadium
The stadiums should be:
New stadium Rotterdam 82.800
De Kuip Rotterdam 47.490
Arena Amsterdam 65.200
Olypisch stadion Amsterdam 43.012
Phillips stadion Eindhoven 42.450
Abe lenstra stadion Heereveen 42.450
Grolsch Veste Enschede 41.214
Nationaal stadion Brussel 80.000
Brugge stadion Brugge 40.698
Stadion Luik Luik 41.942
Stadion Gent Gent 40.300
Stadion Genk Genk 40.450
stadium Charleroi Charleroi 41.264
Stadium Antwerpen Antwerpen 41.887
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