I'm looking for images/examples of car parks which have been built into the side of a stand. The only example I can think of is St James Park, Newcastle where a multi level car park has been built into 2 of the stands. I'm sure there are other examples but can't find any. Thanks in advance.

Fenerbahçe sükrü saracoglu stadium has got parks under the main stand and the stand infront of main stand

the park at the main stadn is bigger
but there are aso parks directly under the stands
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/2760/farukimg2142ao1.jpg

Wembley! I'm not sure where you'd find the images, though.

there is quite a big car park under the millennium stad

The new Mestalla (Valencia C.F.) will have an underground car park for 4.500 autos.

Melbourne's Telstra Dome has over 2,500 car park spaces which are situated beneath the playing surface itself.

What about the old VFL Park car park out in the SE Melbourne suburb of Mulgrave. It is big enough to be a suburb in itself. The stadium used to hold around 80,000 people and when you have NO public transport to the place and only 4 lanes back to the city it is a recipe for utter mayhem. A lot of cars were only single passenger cars.

How many times have we all "lost" our cars in those jungle of cars?

There is probably STILL people trying to get out of that place all these years later. That was a shocker that joint.

Thanks a lot and please keep them coming. I'm led to believe the car park at St James, Newcastle is for corporate guests only? I don't suppose anyone has any pictures of the inside of the car park at Newcastle?

Personally I think it's the way forward for big stadiums, because parking is always an issue and with a a bit of planning and good architecture you could quite easily put car parks either underground, or built into the side of the stand. Otherwise your frequently left with

1) A stadium surrounded by lots of car parks which doesn't look great, a lot of NFL teams have stadiums like this

or

2) No parking nearby and sometimes poor transport links as well.

Don't Soldier Field and Allianz simply have large car parks under the stadiums themselves?

Allianz Arena has got europest largest car park builing
9.800 cars
http://www.mvg-mobil.de/images/anfahrt_allianz_arena_800.jpg

I would hate to play on a ground in which theirs a carpark underneath. Would not be good for your feet at all as the ground is like rock hard. But guess im just a soft cock. lol.

Nah but yeah you gotta put them somwhere and the simplest solution is underground.

I would hate to play on a ground in which theirs a carpark underneath. Would not be good for your feet at all as the ground is like rock hard. But guess im just a soft cock. lol.

Nah but yeah you gotta put them somwhere and the simplest solution is underground.

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Stade Louis IIThe Stade Louis II is a stadium located in the Fontvieille district of Monaco. It serves as a venue for both football, being the home of AS Monaco as well as the location of the annual UEFA Super Cup match, and athletics, where it plays host to the IAAF World Athletics Final (though certain events, such as the hammer, have to be held elsewhere, due to the stadium not being big enough).

The original Stade Louis II was opened in 1939 as the home of AS Monaco. The new stadium was built in the early 1980s, close to the site of the old stadium on land reclaimed from the sea, opening fully in 1985. It presently has a capacity of approximately 18,500 all seated. The vast majority of the stadium's facilities are located underground, with a large car park directly under the pitch (something that has caused some degree of criticism from managers of AS Monaco's opponents in the past over the state of the pitch).

What about the old VFL Park car park out in the SE Melbourne suburb of Mulgrave. It is big enough to be a suburb in itself. The stadium used to hold around 80,000 people and when you have NO public transport to the place and only 4 lanes back to the city it is a recipe for utter mayhem. A lot of cars were only single passenger cars.

How many times have we all "lost" our cars in those jungle of cars?

There is probably STILL people trying to get out of that place all these years later. That was a shocker that joint.


Finally, something we can beat the Aussies at! You want to try coming out of Silverstone/Badminton/Burghley with 125,000 others down single-track rural roads! Throw in a bit of rain (which as you'll know we often do) and the potential for muddy mayhem is infinite.

Only in England can we aspire to such a jaw-dropping mis-match of capability and popularity!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/720000/images/_723715_jams300.jpg

I'm looking for images/examples of car parks which have been built into the side of a stand. The only example I can think of is St James Park, Newcastle where a multi level car park has been built into 2 of the stands. I'm sure there are other examples but can't find any. Thanks in advance.
Do you mean below the stands or "inside" the stands ?

In Grenoble, the new Stadium under construction will have a car park (460 spaces) below the stands:

http://www.la-metro.org/fr/images/stade/stade_p2_p3.jpg

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/9149/pict0078gl3.jpg
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/3893/pict0079ut2.jpg
http://goodanic.skyblog.com/pics/651219275.jpg

Do you mean below the stands or "inside" the stands ?

In Grenoble, the new Stadium under construction will have a car park (460 spaces) below the stands:



Thanks for the pictures. I originally meant actually built inside the stands, the perfect example is St James Park, Newcastle. The car park (for corporate guests I believe) is built into the Sir John Hall Stand (and maybe the Milburn stand) as can be seen below, and you can see the circular vehicle ramps as well:

http://www.soccermania.dk/layout-stadionbilleder/st%20james%20park.jpg

I don't know if there are any other examples, most other car parks are built underneath the pitch. But please keep posting pictures, thanks.

Just recently a parking deck has built by Continental Arlines Arena, which is to the right of it, though it's not that special.

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d129/DeltaGator/SydneyTrip/SIN2ATL/Meadowlands1.jpg

Here is one attached to our arena, it's for club seat ticket holders. It's a really nice idea because in the winter the wind can be quite strong and COLD off the lake. If you look at the top left corner of the picture, that is our old arena, it has a garage underneath the ice level, not for spectators though, it's for team buses, tour buses, stuff like that.

http://www.sabres.wz.cz/obrazky/HSBC%20arena.jpg

Durbans new World cup stadium will have an under ground car park that will have over 10 000 bay's & the figure is expected to rise.

In the Euroborg stadium in my city they have build 2 levels car parking build under the first tier (900 spaces). They also build a cinema, a casino, a school, a supermarket and offices in it.

If you look to the right you see the tier
http://hpbimg.euroborggroningen.com/parkeergarage2.JPG

http://www.bc-euroborg.nl/Fotoboek/photogallery/Luchtfoto/September/Foto-3.jpg

Here some pictures of the car park (capacity 9800 cars) at the Allianz Arena in Munich (1995):

http://www.allianz-arena.de/en/service/parken/

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/5189/allianzarenaparkdeckyy6.jpg

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/324/allianzarena20050509bilhb7.jpg

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/783/allianzarena20050305bm7.jpg

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/650/allianzarena20050519tesyt0.jpg

For a football club that's still in it's original stadium, Barnsley FC and Oakwell (Stadium) has alot of space for parking
http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/2065/oakwell.png

The Stade Louis II in Monaco has a 4-level car park (cap. 1,700 cars) below the pitch which is at 9 meters over the ground level (3rd floor) :

Entrance:
http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/7549/principautedemonacomerc.jpg http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/4551/070726010626.jpg




In Paris, the Stade de France has also car parks under the stands and the "esplanade" (4 parks, 6,000+ cars)

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/6177/parkingsdf.jpg http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/1153/capturedcran20100304044.jpg

Amsterdam Arena:

http://i49.tinypic.com/4u83dz.jpg

6k under the satdium!!1
maybe world record for stadium?

They may be ugly and are a product of US sprawl, but I LOVE TAILGATING :banana:

http://www.nflgridirongab.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/tailgate-0926.jpg

http://i50.tinypic.com/2mqvmsw.jpg

Amsterdam Arena:
http://i49.tinypic.com/4u83dz.jpgNot only a parkinggarage below the Arenastadium, there is also an expressway(tunnel) trough the stadium connecting the borough A'dam-South-East with the highway A10.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Arena2.jpg

The University of Oklahoma's Memorial Stadium has a parking garage built into the west stand.

http://image02.webshots.com/2/3/21/28/122832128PWvxGn_fs.jpg

Demolished in 2002 old Riverfront Stadium had a garage for 3000 surrounding it.

http://a.imageshack.us/img823/3710/23685743.jpg (http://img823.imageshack.us/i/23685743.jpg/)
Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati Ohio

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/4809/81360289.jpg (http://img43.imageshack.us/i/81360289.jpg/)

The "Q" on game day in the 2009 NFL season. I know you Europeans love the massive parking lot. That's not all of it! Qualcomm Stadium has 19,000 parking spaces. Note the Light Rail station in the bottom left corner. .

I know Estádio José Alvalade in Lisbon has parking underneath the stadium. I parked there when I went to the stadium, but I have no idea how many cars it holds.

Great American Ballpark (the successor to Riverfront Stadium) has a parking garage beneath it that has 3,500 spots.

This is the current garage.
http://www.mcflash.4000loavesanhour.com/TransitCenter/transitupdate_0017.jpg

This is a rendering of what the riverfront will look like in a few years. The current parking garage will be extended underground all the way to the other stadium, making it one of the largest in the midwest.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4138/4784538491_4f39bba69a_b.jpg

This is a very recent picture of the construction. The stadium is in the background.
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e33/UncleRando/Cincinnati/Downtown/TheBanks1.jpg

The new Tivoli in Aachen, Germany has a two level VIP garage for 1200 cars with two soccer training-fields on the roof (artificial turf, still under construction).
Between this garage (which costed 11 mio € to build :nuts:) and the stadiums main entrance is a promenade with large stairways under which the players and team busses park their cars. (in the rear of the picture)
At the north side (the right of the picture) is a parking space for 400 cars and a park for guest busses. (right, rear) These carparks for the Tivoli are of course also used for the neighboring equestrian stadia.
http://static.alemannia-aachen.de/cache/e6fe074af5befdd7399d528305b70114-3682.jpeg
(picture from www.alemannia-aachen.de)

To get a building permit for this stadium with a capacity of 32960 they had to grant a minimum of about 6770 parking spaces all together for the visitors in nearby locations.
Most of these parking spaces are being rented from neaby landowners, mostly parking from the equestrian stadia, companies, office parking space, or from retail stores which would be unused otherwise on weekends and at matchtimes anyways.

Here's a little map of the different parking locations available for the stadiums visitors:
http://static.alemannia-aachen.de/cache/94658749778f6f727ed60887e593cfd0-3817.jpeg
(picture from www.alemannia-aachen.de)
The three orange areas show the VIP parking, the red shows regular visitor parking and blue shows parking from retail stores only available during times when these stores are closed. All these areas are within a walking distance of less than 1 km from the stadium.

The original concept for the stadium had plans to have the carpark integrated into the stadium body at the south and west side, to reduce the noise emission towards the nearby housing area. But those were changed in favor of the solution of putting the training fields on top of the garage and to allow for a nice view from the business area of the main stand into the nearby area. The noise emission has been reduced by closing the gap between the stand and the roof at these two sides of the stadium (the south and the west/main stand).
Original (preliminary) concept with a multilevel carpark at two sides the stadium:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/thumb/a/aa/SportparkSoers.jpg/585px-SportparkSoers.jpg)
(picture from http://upload.wikimedia.org)
Nr.1 - iceskating arena
Nr.2 trough 6 - equestrian stadia and complex where the yearly CHIO takes place.
Nr.7 - old Tivoli
Nr.8 - location of the new tivoli,
Nr.9 - training pitches,
Nr.10 - planned carpark.
Nr.11 -planned hotel

nice photos westsidebomber! I grew up in Cincinnati back in the late 50s' until 1971.. And the Riverfront looks nothing like it did when I was a kid..

i heard that wembley and the emirates both have underground car parks but apparently they never use them coz they are paranoid about terrorism...

i heard that wembley and the emirates both have underground car parks but apparently they never use them coz they are paranoid about terrorism...

True and the cost of sniffer dogs and men with mirrors makes it incredibly expensive and slow. I believe that at Wembley it is used only for officials and senior staff. At the Emirate my understanding is that members of the Diamond Club can use the car park but the hassle of getting in and out means that on average half the spaces under the stadium are unused on matchdays.