size matters

Just The One

Can anyone tell me where Croke Park fits in on the list of largest (capacity) stadiums in Europe.

It was discussed on Ray Darcy show last week and I think they said it was the fifth largest.

Not sure what the others were

Kinetic^

Nou Camp is larger than Croker anyway.

Bluetonic

5th largest.

6th when Wembley opens.

If you take into accounts it's seating capacity only it drops well down the list.

Nou Camp, San Siro, Olympic Stadium and Westfalenstadion are all bigger.

cornbb

Its the 3rd largest in Europe, according to its Wikipedia page. I remember reading the same thing on some other website too.

jdivision

Wikipedia isn't an authoritive source. It'll be sixth largest when Wembley reopens as was posted elsewhere.

Pherekydes

According to The Stadium Guide, it's the fifth largest.

Top 10:

1 Camp Nou 98,800

2 San Siro 85,700

3 Olimpiyskiy Stadion (Kiev) 83,200

4 Westfalenstadion (Dortmund) 82,700

5 Croke Park Stadium 82,500

6 Stadio Olimpico Rome 82,000

7 Atatürk Olympia Stadi Istanbul 80,600

7 Luzhniki Moscow 80,600

9 Estadio Santiago Bernabeu 80,000

9 S.M. Kirov St Petersburg 80,000

9 Stade de France 80,000

abelard

What will the capacity of new Wembley be?

TwoShedsJackson

abelard wrote:

What will the capacity of new Wembley be?

90,000

Kinetic^

I wonder what it would be if they changed the Hill into seating, like the canal end......100k??

county

Kenny 5 wrote:

I wonder what it would be if they changed the Hill into seating, like the canal end......100k??

surely it would hold less

cooperguy

Kenny 5 wrote:

I wonder what it would be if they changed the Hill into seating, like the canal end......100k??

It would hold much less. Try closer to 60k

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Nalz

cooperguy wrote:

It would hold much less. Try closer to 60k

doubt it would be a difference of 22,000 people would it?

Kinetic^

Oh really.

Jimoslimos

cooperguy wrote:

It would hold much less. Try closer to 60k

Neh, not that much. It might hold less but I can't see how the addition of two extra tiers would drop capacity by 20k.

Does anyone know what the capacity of the Canal end is?

copacetic

cooperguy wrote:

It would hold much less. Try closer to 60k

how are they gonna lose 20k overall when the hill and nally hold 13k between them to begin with?

When they were planning to put a stand at that end in 2003 they said it would hold 13k as well so capacity would only change by a few hundred under that plan.

Bluetonic

cooperguy wrote:

It would hold much less. Try closer to 60k

The capacity with temp seating for the FAI matches will be 76,000, so a permanent solution on the current terrace would hold more.

A permanent solution with a similar stand to the canal end would see an all seated capacity of 85,000 approx. Of course this isn't viable with the rail line positioned as it is.

For the record the current capacity is roughly.

Lower Hogan 14,000.
Upper Hogan 8,500.

Lower Cusack 14,000.
Upper Cusack 8,500.

Lower Canal 9,000.
Upper Canal 5,000.

Hill 12,500 standing or 6,500 approx temp seating

Boxes and premium 10,000.