| | Topic: 25 Largest Stadiums in the world |     |
| arenateam
 |  posted 12:35p, 09/22/08   
Surprising #1 topping the list.
http://www.prepticket.com/album/823292:Album:64642/market/national
| Sweet Kitten Feet
  | posted 12:41p, 09/22/08
Work filter blocks the list, how about just copy-pasting it? Do race tracks count as stadiums?
"It takes a big man to admit he's wrong. I am not a big man."
| CBattBQ87
 |  posted 12:42p, 09/22/08
BOMC!!!!
| AgPilot98
| posted 1:06p, 09/22/08
copy and paste...
| tamugmidn
 | posted 1:06p, 09/22/08
25. Gelora Bung Karno Stadium - Capacity: 88,306 - Jakarta, Indonesia - Home Team: Indonesia national soccer team.
24. Ben Hill Griffin Stadium - Capacity: 88,548 - Gainesville, Florida - Home Team: Florida Gators football
22 (tie). Wembley Stadium- Capacity: 90,000 - London, England - Home Team: England national soccer team
22 (tie). Eden Gardens - Capacity: 90,000 - Kolkata, India - Home Team: Kolkata Knight Riders, Bengal cricket team, Indian national cricket team
21. Beijing National Stadium - Capacity: 91,000 - Bejing, China - Home Team: none. Host of 2008 Summer Olympics.
20. Rose Bowl - Capacity: 91,136 - Pasadena, California - Home Team: UCLA Bruins football
19. FedEx Field - Capacity: 91,704 - Landover, Maryland - Home Team: Washington Redskins
18. Bryant-Denny Stadium - Capacity: 92,138 - Tuscaloosa, Alabama - Home Team: Alabama Crimson Tide football.
17. Cotton Bowl - Capacity 92,200 - Dallas, Texas - Home Team: none, hosts annual Oklahoma-Texas game and Cotton Bowl game.
16. Tiger Stadium - Capacity: 92,400 - Baton Rouge, Louisiana - Home Team: LSU Tigers football
15. Sanford Stadium - Capacity: 92,746 - Athens, Georgia - Home Team: Georgia Bulldogs football.
14. Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum - Capacity: 93,607 - Los Angeles, California - Home Team: USC Trojans football
13. Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium - Capacity: 94,113 - Austin, Texas - Texas Longhorns football.
12. Estadio do Maracana - Capacity: 96,000 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Home Team: Flamengo, Fluminense.
11. Camp Nou - Capacity: 98,772 - Barcelona, Spain - Home Team: FC Barcelona.
8 (tie). Melbourne Cricket Ground - Capacity: 100,000 - Melbourne, Australia - Home Team: Melbourne FC, Richmond FC, Australian national rugby union team.
8 (tie). Bukit Jalil National Stadium - Capacity: 100,000 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Home Team: Malaysia national football team.
8 (tie). Azadi Stadium - Capacity: 100,000 - Tehran, Iran - Home Team: Iran national soccer team.
7. Neyland Stadium - Capacity: 102,037 - Knoxville, Tennessee - Home Team: Tennessee Volunteers football.
6. Ohio Stadium - Capacity: 102,329 - Columbus, Ohio - Home Team: Ohio State football.
5. Estadio Azteca - Capacity: 105,000 - Mexico City, Mexico - Home Team: Mexico national soccer team
4. Michigan Stadium - Capacity: 106,201 - Ann Arbor, Michigan - Home Team: Michigan Wolverines football
3. Beaver Stadium - Capacity: 107,282 - State College, Pennsylvania - Home Team: Penn State football
2. Salt Lake Stadium - Capacity: 120,000 - Kolkata, India - Home Team: East Bengal Club, Mohun Bagan AC.
1. Rungrado May Day Stadium - Capacity: 150,000 - Pyongyang, North Korea - Home Team: North Korea national football team.
| AgPilot98
|  posted 1:07p, 09/22/08
ok, happy face now.
| SwampFox
| posted 1:16p, 09/22/08
I think I'd pass on seeing a game in a 150,000 seat stadium built by the North Koreans - the same people who brought us "the worst building in the history of mankind" aka "The Hotel of Doom" http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/story.html?id=662064
| Sweet Kitten Feet
| posted 1:19p, 09/22/08
So obviously racetracks do not count as "stadiums." Thanks!
"It takes a big man to admit he's wrong. I am not a big man."
| GiveUsRoom
| posted 1:23p, 09/22/08
Maracana stadium in Rio had 199,854 for the World Cup final in 1950. They don't pack them in as tightly now so it's 12 on this list, but it should get an extra salute.
| SwampFox
| posted 1:27p, 09/22/08
^
Those soccer stadiums used to have large standing room only sections (not even bleachers, just a terrace surrounded with chain link fencing) that have since been outlawed. They lost a lot of capacity when most of the top-flight stadiums converted to "all-seaters" in which every seat is a chair - like the NFL.
| Killin Me Smalls
 |  posted 1:33p, 09/22/08
I wonder if that North Korean stadium is verified by outsiders, because Kim Jong-il also said that he has only played golf once, and he had a hole in one and shot under par.
| SwampFox
| posted 1:33p, 09/22/08
Regarding racetracks, I think you really could make the argument for Bristol (Capacity 165,000)
http://www.bristolracewaycamping.com/images/Picture%20005.jpg
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There's a guy who has been trying for YEARS to set up a Va-Tech v. UT neutral site game there.
However, racetracks like Indy (250,000) have a bunch of separate grandstands of varying heights - it's not really one cohesive structure. (Kinda like Kyle haha)
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| NoACDamnit
|  posted 1:35p, 09/22/08
They EXPANDED The Cotton Bowl!?!?!
| SwampFox
| posted 1:36p, 09/22/08
Yep, they expanded it as part of the deal to keep the Red River Shootout from leaving. Insane huh?
| p-wonk01
| posted 1:38p, 09/22/08
I didn't realize the Cotton Bowl could hold that many.
| SwampFox
| posted 1:41p, 09/22/08
Here's what it's supposed to look like when they're done.
The hilarious thing is, that dump'll lose the actual Cotton Bowl Game when they make the COBO a BCS Bowl and move it to Jerry World (expandable to 100,000+). It will be a 92k seat stadium that has 1 game played in it a year (kinda like Legion Field before they decided that Legion Field's upper deck was a disaster waiting to happen and removed it.)
| Deadwood
| posted 1:45p, 09/22/08
I think Indy raceway seats something like 500,000 in total. I know it seats more than 250K. They usually have over 1M counting the infield.
| Cowtown Red
| posted 1:47p, 09/22/08
Five of the 25 largest sports stadiums in the world are SEC football stadiums.
| Dallasag02
|  posted 1:49p, 09/22/08
Up until last season, it was somewhere in the 68,000-70,000 range. The city of Dallas thought it would be a good idea to sink $50M into the thing for six more Texas/OU games, Prairie View/Grambling, Arkansas Pine-Bluff/Texas Southern, and some Eastern Oklahoma game.
I'm sure those other games are going to reach capacity. Laura Miller = Idiot.
| reineraggie09
| posted 1:50p, 09/22/08
Add another Zone so we will be in the top #25 of something football related
| CBattBQ87
| posted 1:50p, 09/22/08
$50 million to rehab and expand a stadium that holds 2-3 games a year and will be losing The Cotton Bowl in 2010, when $300 million would have gotten Dallas the new Cowboys Stadium.
| SwampFox
| posted 1:51p, 09/22/08
Indy's capacity is 257,000. Temporary seating and the infield bring it to 400,000.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/motor/irl/indy500/2004-05-27-attendance-count_x.htm
As per your 500,000 number and 1,000,000 total including the infield:
quote:
People haven't stopped talking about — or exaggerating — the 500's attendance since. Long regarded as the largest single-day sporting event crowd in the world, ridiculously high estimates were never curtailed by the Speedway's brass because each increase heightened intrigue.
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| UMichAg
| posted 1:58p, 09/22/08
of course those capacities are not accurate. I've been to games at the Big House that was ~112,000.
| RockinAg10
| posted 2:51p, 09/22/08
the largest stadium on the list:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/May-day_Stadium_at_night.jpg
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[This message has been edited by TexAgs staff (edited 9/22/2008 3:52p).]
| RockinAg10
| posted 2:52p, 09/22/08
sorry don't know why it came out so big
| rwtxag83
| posted 2:56p, 09/22/08
Of course you do. You just can't make the biggest stadium smaller than that.
| Keegan99
| posted 2:59p, 09/22/08
There was some talk a few years back of a promoter trying to ink Tennessee and Virginia Tech to a neutral site series at Bristol.
| houstontexan
| posted 3:11p, 09/22/08
keegan, they've tossed that idea, obviously at a different track, around for texas as well.
bristol seems like it might actually be doable, though.
| AirborneAg04
| posted 3:19p, 09/22/08
Kyle is #31 if anyone is curious.
I tried looking for better pictures of the stadium in North Korea, but no wide shots seem to be available.
| Killin Me Smalls
| posted 3:47p, 09/22/08
i dont know if this will work--first time picture posting
| Killin Me Smalls
| posted 3:48p, 09/22/08
^
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^That's the N.Korean Beast
| Ole Ball Coach
| posted 3:56p, 09/22/08
Thats alot of egg rolls
| twk
| posted 3:56p, 09/22/08
The expanded Cotton Bowl doesn't look as stupid as that schematic drawing (although the added seats are all metal, so it does have a little bit of a high school feel).
| hutsonwt
| posted 4:00p, 09/22/08
Do you think Kyle will be remodeled any time soon
| hutsonwt
| posted 4:00p, 09/22/08
Just to increase Capacity
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