7 HUGE Football Stadiums That No Longer Exist 

That Bald & Bankrupt call got me good lmao

As a Benfica fan I was checking to see if saw our old cathedral and wasn't disappointed! Truly one of the most iconic and magnificent stadiums of it's era!

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Having been to Prague I can attest to how unimaginably massive Strahov Stadium is. I was on a tour headed to Prague Castle when we drove by the Stadium. At the time I didn't know what it was but I did know it seemed to go on forever.

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A restaurant near my home in Almada (south of Lisboa) has a seat from the old Estádio da Luz. It's on top of some indoor ceiling tiles. It looks really cool whilst looking extremely out of place.

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So nice to see the legendary Estádio da Luz again. So many great memories.. was there on the final day, and like so many others, grabbed a bit of the turf, which I unsucessfully tried to grow in my garden. As for the biggest attendance, there is a consensus that the match with highest attendance (albeit unofficially), was the WC Youth final when Portugal beat Brazil back in 1991.

Luz is a neighbourhood in the parish of Carnide, where the Estádio da Luz is also located. Funnily Estádio da Luz just neighbours the parish of Benfica.

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I was hoping the Zentralstadion of Leipzig would be included, and it was. It is mentioned that it was demolished and replaced by the RB Arena. Well, the new stadium was build inside the old stadium. The mounts of the old stadium are still there, as areal footage will show. Odd construction.

Funny about Leipzig- the new Red Bull Arena has been constructed in the middle of the "bowl" of the Zentralstadion. You can still see remains of the Zentralstadion stands today

You should do a video on the oldest National Stadium Hampden Park. It holds all the European records. Clubs like Motherwell and Dundee have appeared in front of attendances here that are bigger than any of the top European clubs have played in front of. It still retains its original shape from 1903. The terracing has basically just been replaced with seats. This is the 3rd Hampden Park. The second Hampden still exists just up the road from the 1903 Hampden. It was renamed Cathkin park which was left to rot in 1967 but the pitch and terracing are still there. The first Hampden is now Hampden bowling club. This is where the world's first international was played in 1873. Scotland beat England 5-1 with the first black player to play in international football as well. For Scotland of course.

Fantastic video again, Alfie. I'm glad you put in Strahov Stadium as I was in Prague 2 months ago and had no idea about the stadium. Looked where in Prague it is located & noticed it is on the west side of the famous Petrin Tower lookout point. I had a quick look at my photos from when I went to the top of the tower & low and behold, what do ya know, I have a photo of it without even realising it. Incredible structure.

Estadio da luz

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Alfie The record in the Old Estádio da Luz is 140k at least when portugal won the u20 final in 1991. There are no records of that but my dad would go to every game and told it had more people than that classico. I would have loved to go there, my dad was one of the 7 founders of Red Devils Ultras and tells me amazing stories, people brought their own 5/10 liters of wine, a griller to grill some steaks, would go inside with knifes to cut bread, feed the securities whenever they were hungry and nobody was ever hurt. It all changed on an away game in our league when a fan threw a bottle of wine to the linesman head and he blacked out. A porto fan would always bring a pig and whenever they scored he would go around the pitch and everyone would call him "porco" (pig) as it is very similar to porto name and tbf that´s what their are xD

ACHTUNG! The GDR played their last match ever on the 12th of september 1990 in Brussels - a 2:0 victory over Belgium. Matthias Sammer scored twice.

Hey alfie, i dont know if you will see this but I’d love to see you make a video on africa’s ‘right to dream’ academy and their heavy connections to Manchester City and FC Nordsjælland. Nordsjælland (Danish team) have dozens of Ghanaians in theor team because of it including hot property Muhammad Kudus who recently signed for Ajax. Manchester City also have some current and former right to dream players in their academy including Godsway Donyoh (who is now at Nordsjælland), Collins Tanor, Razak Nuhu, Nana Boateng, Thomas Agyepong, Divine Naah, Yaw Yeboah, Ernest Agyiri, Evans Mensah, Enock Kwakwa, Dominic Oduro and so many more. You many not know many, if not any but that’s not the point the point is Man City’s and Nordsjælland’s involvement in the right to dream academy and I believe City have had some sort of legal controversy with this whole right to dream and Nordsjælland stuff. Would love to see a video made on this personally as I find it really interesting.

Imagine watching 9 different games on the last day of the league/group at Strahov Stadium

There are still some matches at Strahow stadium. Sparta Prague´s B team plays there their 3rd tier fixtures and also some of the youth teams of Sparta.

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You mentioned Wembley stadium being a new stadium on the old site , so why not Hampden Park ? The old ground had a capacity of around 160,000 , new ground 50,000 or so .

You missed Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland. Holds a lot of records. It was allegedly the largest football stadium for attendances in the world during the early part of 20th century. Ground improvements increased the official capacity of the ground to 183,388 in 1937, but the SFA were only allowed to issue 150,000 tickets for games.[19] The 1937 Scotland v England match had an official attendance of 149,415, but at least 20,000 more people entered the ground without tickets.[19][20] A week later the 1937 Scottish Cup Final between Celtic and Aberdeen drew an official crowd of 147,365, with 20,000 more people locked outside.[19] Biggest attendance at a European Cup tie was Celtic v Leeds 1970 semi-final 136,000 Hampden Park (official attendance would have been 140,000).

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Old Benfica Cathedral was fenomenal!

I wouldn't say Wembley is as iconic as the Maracana..

Well,I'd never heard of the west ham stadium. Nice one.👏👍

MAKE ESTÁDIO DA LUZ GREAT AGAIN

Loved the Bald and Bankrupt reference!

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Have you ever done a video on quirky old grounds? Norwich used to play at the Nest which was an old chalk pit I believe. I used to live very close to it and you could still see crush barriers and advertising hoardings up until the early-mid 80s.The corner collapsed several times due to the od chalk mines (I think they were neolithic) and the original Russell Allison (groundsman,there have been three of them) had to shore it up with wooden beams!

Excellent, I never knew about the strahov stadium

love how back in the day they used to have vast crowds upwards of 120 or 130,000 or even more at a football match.. to c a c of fans crammed in looks awesome..

Roker park was estimated to have reached a total attendance of 100,000 against man United in the FA Cup, surprised it doesn’t feature

I remember running around the old White City stadium on a Wednesday night, with Royal Marines Reserves in 1973 before we moved to Bermondsey Jamaica Road.

“A form of genius that’s wasted on this platform but enjoy it while it lasts” Oh Alfie your dry humour and sarcasm needs to last forever 😂😇

Careful: Stadium of the Light is Sunderland's stadium, so "Estádio da Luz" or "Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica" remains like that, without translation. "Luz" means "light" but it is also a neighborhood in Lisbon, near the stadium.

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Saudade eterna do verdadeiro inferno da luz. Benfica.

Nice plug for bald and bankrupt. One of my fav channels

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Awesome Bald & Bankrupt reference, but unfortunately this video must be missing some stadiums... Only in Brazil there's two stadiums that fit the criteria to be on that list: Grêmio's old Olímpico Monumental, in Porto Alegre, had a record attendence of 98 thousand, it's closed since 2013 and expected to be demolished soon; and the old public stadium of Salvador city, Fonte Nova, with a record attendence of 110 thousand, was totally demolished in 2010 for the construction of the new Fonte Nova for the 2014 world cup.

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Old Estadio da Luz was MASSIVE. Been there many times.. mythical stadium.. BENFICA 💪

1923 was known as the White Horse Final and the name of the horse was Billie

where is the tower athletic ground? new brighton tower played there up until 1901 and then new brighton played there after the second world war until 1977 and it was closed in 1977 and it hosted 100,000 and is now a housing estate

Wow as a QPR fan it’s insane to think that my club once played in the 7th biggest stadium of all time and that I’ve walked through the piece of land where it once was just 20 years before I started going to games hundreds of times without the slightest clue of that, insane! Great video!

Wow. Shout out G-TOWN! Also Trivia for you.... Newton wasn't in Grantham when he 'discovered' (or coined the term) gravity. Neither was tree. He was in Woolsthorpe (Woolsthorpe by Colsterworth). The house still stands and i think they reckon the tree is now 400+ years old. Is that even possible? I'm uncertain if the apple made it. Great video again mate. Hope everyone's doing good.

Should have mentioned Yuvabharti Stadium (Salt Lake Stadium) of Kolkata, India. Record attendance was almost 132,000. Though after modern renovations, especially the u-17 WC, the actual capacity is way less now. Edit: Did not notice the criteria where the stadium has to be demolished to feature in this list. Sorry, my suggestion doesn't stand. Still, the stadium is home to the fiercest derbies in India, possibly the entire south east Asia. You should look in to doing a story on Mohun Bagan FC who famously defeated the British Army XI in 1911, BAREFOOT. The club has some fascinating history from the colonial times of India.

amazing to think that every team in the prem has already lost eventhough it took liverpool until february to lose

Hey, this might not be very popular but you should probably look into the Luzenac AP story of their promotion into the second tier of french football and how they weren’t allowed due to their ground being too small. The lawsuit I think was closed not too long ago but the team is now in like the 5th division of french football

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Nice to see Boothferry Park in the intro, now a housing estate

Honourable mention: Stadionul 23 August (later Stadionul National) in Bucharest. Opened in 1953, the stadium had an official capacity of around 80000, a figure that was often reached and sometimes exceeded at fixtures involving the Romanian national team with some matches having at least 90000 spectators and some sources citing as many as 100000. It was also the venue for the record attendance for a rugby match in Romania, when the national side hosted France in 1957 in front of 100000 fans. However the claim to fame, in terms of attendance, happened on March 16, 1985 and a twin fixture organized during the national league. First Steaua played Rapid, being then followed by Dinamo vs Sportul. Since all four clubs were from Bucharest, this drew a crowd that easily exceeded 100000. Some accounts claim as many as 120000, though that may well be an exaggeration since the exact figure is unknown. What is certain is that the terraces were so full the crowd spilled onto the running track that surrounded the pitch. Some footage can be seen here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OlijfRAvHOw.html In the 90s the stadium was converted to an all seater and the capacity dropped to a little over 60000. In the late 2000s the stadium was demolished to make way for a new stadium. I'm proud to say I attended the last match ever played there (a Euro qualifier match vs Albania). At the end of the match an excavator was used to symbolically tear up a few rows of seats before actual demolition work started. The new stadium was opened in 2011 and has a capacity of just over 55000. With this and the state of Romanian football in mind, it's all but certain the days of football matches with 80-100000 fans are long gone.

It says a lot that the Pontiac Silverdome in Detroit (82,000) didn't even make the list. It only use for ~world~ football was the 1994 world cup and warm up games, but it still counts.

8:33 Fun fact: the company that built this stadium is the same company behind Emirates Stadium.

Great video. I'm surprised Highbury (Arsenal) didn't make the list.

Knew that the Strahov would be number 1...shame it isn't used now for concerts as the sheer scale of it is incredible...

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Nice Qi reference! Hard to believe that such a huge stadium would house an attendance of 400 or so...

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What about the old Crystal Palace Stadium where the FA cup was held before WW1 and the original home of Crystal Palace FC... ???

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I think nobody cares, but I played a set of matches in the Strahov Stadium in October 2014. It still was standing together but now it’s nearly fallen apart and abandoned

Estádio da luz😍😍

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Nice video

A version of this but of stadiums that never came to be (ie largest planed stadiums that never came to exist) like Eircom Park or the Bertie Bowl in Ireland from the early 00’s.

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I have an idea for your next video! How about stadiums with the most humiliating football defeats before a hometown crowd? Number one would be the Maracana!

Celtic Park and Hampden? Both had record crowds of over 100,000

A video on the kroenkes or the glazers

Seems like every spectator in the Strahov stadium would need binoculars to watch any event there

I really appreciate that bald and bankrupt reference

Bald and Bankrupt x HITC Sevens collab when?!!!

Maybe a documentary style video on CD Palestino. It is a touchy political subject, but I believe it warrants recognition.

This is interesting

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Yay stadiums

I may have missed it, but what about a video of the most successful/famous teams that no longer exist?

Its a shame that stadiums nowdays dont have so many capacity.

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A better video would be “7 BEST football stadiums that no longer exist” or “Most missed stadiums” something along those lines. Worthy contenders for the for me are: Ali Sami Yen - Galatasaray Boleyn Ground - West Ham Estádio da Luz (original) - Benfica Highbury - Arsenal Maine Road - Manchester City Probably loads more that I’ve missed

Actually official matches are played on Strahov stadium. Sparta Prague’s youth and women play their official matches here.

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I went to White City when they had a Speedway team in the late 70s and it must have been a really dreadful venue for football

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I think the most obvious potential use of the strahov stadium is to build a track and use it for auto racing.

Did the Maracanã miss out on this list because it counts as a renovation, as opposed to a demolition as per Wembley?

West Ham's Boleyn Ground was situated in the old County Borough of East Ham not West Ham.

i still cant find any answer as to why the original wembly stadium was demolished.

If I were going to build a million seater stadium, I go for a circular prymaid.