UEFA EURO 2008 Stadiums

[cybec]

SWITZERLAND

Bâle, St. Jakob-Park.
42 500 places.


Berne, STADE DE SUISSE Wankdorf.
32 000 places.



Genève Stade de Genève.
31 500 places.




Zurich Stade Letzigrund.
31 500 places.



AUSTRIA
Innsbruck Stade Tivoli Neu.
30 000 places.

Klagenfurt Stade Waidmannsdorf.
40 000 places.


Salzbourg Stade Salzburg.
32 700 places.


Vienne Ernst Happel Stadion.
50 000 places.

[cybec]

Basel (Switzerland)



Soon a tower next to the stadium

[Martuh]

Yep, not until two years but the qualification groups are here.

Group 1
Portugal
Poland
Serbia & Montenegro
Belgium
Finland
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Kazakhstan

Group 2
France
Italy
Ukraine
Scotland
Lithuania
Georgia
Faroe Islands

Group 3
Greece
Turkey
Norway
Bosnia
Hungary
Moldova
Malta

Group 4
Czech Republic
Germany
Slovakia
Ireland
Wales
Cyprus
San Marino

Group 5
England
Croatia
Russia
Israel
Estonia
Macedonia
Andorra.

Group 6
Sweden
Spain
Denmark
Latvia
Iceland
Northern Ireland
Liechtenstein.

Group 7
The Netherlands
Romania
Bulgaria
Slovenia
Albania
Belarus
Luxembourg


And the venues, of course.

Ernst Happel Stadion, Wien
53 295 seats






Sankt Jacob Park, Basel
42 500 seats (currently 30 000 seats)








Stade de Suisse Wankdorf, Bern
31 907 seats






Wörthersee-Arena, Klagenfurt
31 957 seats





Tivoli Stadion, Innsbruck
30 000 seats (currently 17 000 seats)






Stade de Genève, Genève
31 600 seats






Stadion Salzburg, Salzburg
31 020 seats (currently 18 000 seats)






Letzigrund, Zurich
30 000 seats

[Mephisto]

Sankt Jacob Park is my favourite... also, the Euro2008 logo reminds me a lot of the Sydney 2000 olympics logo.

[alexandros1984]

hmmm hard to tell, they are not that nice thou maybe Stade de Suisse Wankdorf

[bubomb]

What's the big deal about the stadiums!! You only spend about 270 minutes of your 2 week trip in stadiums. It's location that counts, and you cannot get better than Austria/Switzerland. Two of the richest most beautiful countries in the world, with Salzburg and Vienna simply out of this world. You will be spending two weeks surrounded by history, culture, the Alps, stunning scenery, lakes and great weather. You simply cannot get a better location. Would you rather spend a fortnight in some shitty industrial rundown city???

The stadiums are fine anyway (apart from Zurich).

Trust me, I travel to Salzburg every year, it's amazing!!

[MoreOrLess]

Originally Posted by bubomb

What's the big deal about the stadiums!! You only spend about 270 minutes of your 2 week trip in stadiums. It's location that counts, and you cannot get better than Austria/Switzerland. Two of the richest most beautiful countries in the world, with Salzburg and Vienna simply out of this world. You will be spending two weeks surrounded by history, culture, the Alps, stunning scenery, lakes and great weather. You simply cannot get a better location. Would you rather spend a fortnight in some shitty industrial rundown city???

The stadiums are fine anyway (apart from Zurich).

Trust me, I travel to Salzburg every year, it's amazing!!

If you don't get any tickets due to the stadiums being so small then I'd guess it would become a problem.

[bubomb]

Originally Posted by MoreOrLess

If you don't get any tickets due to the stadiums being so small then I'd guess it would become a problem.

Take away Da Luz and the average size of the stadiums would be almost the exact same as Portugal. The stadiums are smaller because football is less popular in these regions, which means your chances of not getting a ticket due to smaller stadiums will be more than compensated by less local interest. I would say it will be easier to get a ticket in Innsbruck than it would be in Lisbon.

[magicks]

Sankt Jacob Park,Basel!
Stadiums are small

[empersouf]

The stadiums of Portugal 2004 were much better and nicer i think.

[Martuh]

Originally Posted by Soufian

The stadiums of Portugal 2004 were much better and nicer i think.

Don't forget it costed Portugal very, very, very much. There's even one stadium that hasn't been used yet, except for Euro 2004.

[Kampflamm]

Yeah, compared to da Luz, Dragao, Braga or Alvalade, these stadiums are crap.

[Greg]

I wouldn't say that they are crap, but I also like the stadiums in Portugal a lot more. Remember, St. Jakob Park Basel is from the same architects as the Allianz Arena.
Zurich was supposed to get a fantastic stadium at a different location than the Letzigrund. However, close by resident's objections halted the project. It will still be realized, but after Euro2008.

[Bahnsteig4]

Actually, the Innsbruck and Salzburg stadiums will be enlarged, so you can't really judge by these pictures.

[2zanzibar]

Stade de Suisse Wankdorf

Oh dear, what a rather unfortunate name

[MoreOrLess]

Originally Posted by 2zanzibar

Stade de Suisse Wankdorf

Oh dear, what a rather unfortunate name

Even more unfortunately the team that plays their is known as "Young Boys".

Sankt Jacob Park looks nice but otherwise I'd agree this is definately the worst collection of stadia since the european championships expanded to 16 teams.

[pompeyfan]

Originally Posted by 2zanzibar

Stade de Suisse Wankdorf

Oh dear, what a rather unfortunate name

Originally Posted by MoreOrLess

Even more unfortunately the team that plays their is known as "Young Boys".

Sankt Jacob Park looks nice but otherwise I'd agree this is definately the worst collection of stadia since the european championships expanded to 16 teams.

Thanks a lot. FAR too much information

[Lostboy]

I think you could probably string a better set of stadia from the Second Tier of the English League, and probably of many others.

[Noostairz]

edit.

[XCRunner]

Happel!!