Wembley Stadium (2007)

Wembley Stadium
Wembley Stadium (2013)
Data
place	Wembley , London , United Kingdom
Coordinates	51 ° 33 '21.5 "  N , 0 ° 16' 46.4"  W Coordinates: 51 ° 33 '21.5 "  N , 0 ° 16' 46.4"  W.
classification	4th
owner	The Football Association
operator	Wembley National Stadium Limited (WNSL)
start of building	July 2003
opening	March 2007
surface	Hybrid lawn
costs	1.2 billion euros
capacity	90,000 seats
playing area	105 × 68 m
Societies)
Tottenham Hotspur (2016-2019)
Events
International matches of the English national football team (since 2007) FA Cup final (since 2007, Final Four , since 2008) Game for the FA Community Shield (since 2007) Football League Championship Play-offs final (since 2007) Football League One Play-off Final (since 2007) Football League Two Play-offs final (since 2007) Challenge Cup final ( Rugby League , since 2007) Games of the NFL International Series ( American football , since 2007) Race of Champions 2007 Race of Champions 2008 Final Four in the Carling Cup (since 2008) 2010/11 UEFA Champions League final 2012 Summer Olympics 2012/13 UEFA Champions League final Rugby League World Cup 2013 Rugby Union World Cup 2015 European Football Championship 2021 European Women's Football Championship 2022 The final UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Concerts

The Wembley Stadium ( English Wembley Stadium ) is a football stadium in Wembley , part of the London borough of Brent . The stadium is mainly known for football matches . It was built from 2003 to 2007 after the old Wembley Stadium was demolished in 1923, holds 90,000 spectators and has a 133 m high arch and a roof that can be closed. The stadium is the second largest football stadium in Europe after the Camp Nou in Barcelona .

history

The construction site of the new Wembley Stadium (2006)

After the old Wembley Stadium was closed in October 2000 and demolished in 2003, a new National Stadium was built on the same site .

The Australian construction company Multiplex Group was won over for the new building . However, the company could not meet the originally planned financing costs of 326 million pounds sterling : By the time the contract was signed, the planned costs had climbed to 445 million pounds. After completion of the stadium, the pure stadium costs were already around 800 million pounds. Multiplex had to pay for 147 million pounds of the additional costs itself, which is why the owner of the construction company agreed to contribute up to 38.1 million US dollars from his private assets. Due to the poor financial planning and the associated consequences, the company's shares plummeted by 40 percent. The total construction costs (including financing and infrastructure) were estimated at 1.2 billion euros in May 2013 .

Compared to the old Wembley Stadium, the new arena is twice as large and four times as high. Instead of the 39 steps that had to be climbed in the past, you now have to climb 107 steps from the field to reach the Royal Box , the tribune of honor on which the trophy previously won on the lawn is presented.

The new Wembley Stadium was completed on May 23, 2007. It was originally supposed to open on May 13, 2006 with the English Cup final . However, since the construction company responsible could only give a seventy percent guarantee that the construction would be completed on time, the final was actually moved to the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff for the sixth time in a row .

Soccer

Basic data
start of building	July 2002
construction time	56 months
opening	March 2007
height	52 m (stadium) 133 m (arch)
width	300 m
length	315 m
scope	1 km
Seats	90,000
Grandstand capacity	34,303 (lower tier ) 16,532 (middle tier) 39,165 (upper tier)
Wheelchair spaces	310
Press spaces	400
Restaurants	6th
Bars	34
Kitchens	98
Food and drink stands	688
Toilets	2,618
elevators	26
Escalators	30th
Parking spaces	2,900
Bus parking	500

Wembley Stadium is the national stadium for the English national football team.

The first football game at the new Wembley was a charity match on March 17, 2007. The first goal of the event was scored by Mark Bright, a former professional footballer. The first official international match was the U21 friendly match between England and Italy on March 24, 2007 (final score 3: 3). In this game, the Italian Giampaolo Pazzini scored the first goal scored by a professional player in the new stadium after just 25 seconds.

The first competitive game was the 2007 FA Cup final on May 19, 2007; Didier Drogba was the goalscorer in Chelsea FC's 1-0 win over Manchester United . On June 1, 2007, the first A international match was carried out in the new Wembley Stadium, where England and Brazil separated 1: 1. England's next game in the new arena also meant their first defeat: On August 22, 2007, they suffered a 2-1 draw in a friendly against Germany ; the first victory came on September 8th in a 3-0 victory over Israel .

During the 2012 Olympic Games , four preliminary round games, a quarter-final, two semi-finals and the two final pairings for women and men took place as part of the soccer tournament.

The UEFA Champions League final was held twice in the new arena: in 2011, FC Barcelona and Manchester United met . Two years later, in recognition of the 150th anniversary of the English Football Association by UEFA , Wembley experienced the first and so far only purely German final of the Champions League between Borussia Dortmund and FC Bayern Munich .

In the 2016/17 season, Tottenham Hotspur played their home games in the UEFA Champions League at Wembley Stadium due to the construction of White Hart Lane . In 2017/18, all of Spurs' home games took place in the national stadium. For this season, Tottenham paid the Football Association as the owner around 19.7 million euros in rent. In April 2019, after some delays, the new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium was inaugurated.

date	competition	encounter	Result
May 28, 2011	2010/11 UEFA Champions League	FC Barcelona - Manchester United	3: 1
May 25, 2013	UEFA Champions League 2012/13	Borussia Dortmund - FC Bayern Munich	1: 2

After the two finals of the UEFA Champions League in 2011 and 2013, the English football association FA competed with Wembley Stadium for the 2023 final to mark the 100th anniversary of the famous football temple . It would be the third final of the European premier class in the last 12 years at the new Wembley Stadium. The old Wembley has hosted the European Cup and the Champions League five times. The decision for London was made on September 24, 2019, when the finals for 2021 to 2023 were awarded in Ljubljana .

Games at the 2021 European Football Championship

In September 2014, Wembley Stadium was initially accepted as the venue for the two semi-finals and the final of the 2021 European Football Championship , originally scheduled for 2020 , which was to be held once in a total of 13 European countries. After UEFA canceled the originally intended venue Grimbergen (Belgium) due to delays in planning, the games originally planned for there (three preliminary round matches and one round of 16) were also assigned to London. With a total of eight games, most of the games at this European Championship will be played in Wembley Stadium.

Sun., June 13, 2021, 2:00 p.m. (3:00 p.m. CEST) - Group D
England	-	Croatia	1: 0 (0: 0)
Fri., June 18, 2021, 8:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. CEST) - Group D.
England	-	Scotland	0-0
Tue., June 22, 2021, 8:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. CEST) - Group D.
Czech Republic	-	England	0: 1 (0: 1)
Sat, June 26, 2021, 8:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. CEST) - round of 16
Italy	-	Austria	2: 1 a.d. (0: 0)
Tue., June 29, 2021, 5:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. CEST) - round of 16
England	-	Germany	2: 0 (0: 0)
Tuesday, July 6, 2021, 8:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. CEST) - semi-finals
Winner quarter-finals 2	-	Winner quarter-finals 1	-: - (- :-)
Wed., July 7, 2021, 8:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. CEST) - semi-finals
Winner quarter-finals 4	-	Winner quarter-finals 3	-: - (- :-)
Sun., July 11, 2021, 8:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. CEST) - final
Winner semifinals 1	-	Winner semifinals 2	-: - (- :-)

Games at the 2022 European Women's Football Championship

Wembley Stadium was also selected as the final venue for the women's European football championship to be held in England in 2022 . This will make Wembley the first stadium to host both a men's and a women's European Championship final.

(Date still open) - Final
Winner semifinals 1	-	Winner semifinals 2	-: - (- :-)

Other sports

Circuit for the Race of Champions

On December 16, 2007, the racing spectacle Race of Champions was held at Wembley Stadium. For this purpose, the lawn was turned into a one kilometer long race track within six days. First, the company FM Conway laid out 8500 aluminum protective plates along the double lane on the Wembley lawn and set up 400 meters of freeway crash barriers on the winding parts of the route. The team then applied around 3,500 tons of asphalt in three layers. In contrast to other racetracks, the greatest value was not placed on grip here , so that more spectacular scenes emerge. After the race, the track was dismantled within three days. The asphalt was recycled and paved elsewhere.

rugby

In 2015, Wembley Stadium hosted two group matches of the Rugby Union World Cup , including the victory of eventual world champions New Zealand against Argentina . In addition, Ireland defeated Romania in a group match in front of 89,267 spectators.

In addition, the London rugby club Saracens has played at least one game per season at Wembley Stadium since 2009.

NFL football

→ Main article : NFL International Series

Since 2005, the National Football League (NFL) has played regular season games abroad as part of the NFL International Series . On October 28, 2007, the first took place outside of North America. The eventual winners of the Super Bowl XLII , the New York Giants , prevailed against the Miami Dolphins with 13:10 . Also in the following years a game was played at Wembley Stadium; in 2013 there were two games for the first time and in 2014 there were three games for the first time.

music

Live Earth at Wembley

The first concert in the new building was originally supposed to be played by Bon Jovi . Due to the problems with the completion of the stadium, the planned concerts for June 10th and 11th, 2006 had to be canceled. On June 9, 2007, George Michael finally played the first concert in the new stadium, and Muse sold the new stadium for the first time on both evenings the following weekend. On July 7, 2007, the European part of the global Live Earth concert took place in Wembley Stadium next to Hamburg . A day later, the Metallica group held a concert as part of the 2007 “Sick of the Studio” tour. On July 9, 11 and 12, 2009 the Britpop band Oasis played three concerts in a row. On July 1, 2007, the Concert for Diana took place in honor of Princess Diana , who had died ten years earlier . In 2015 Ed Sheeran was the first solo artist to play completely without a band on three days in front of 80,000 people a day. On the occasion of his x tour, the concert recording Jumpers For Goalposts was recorded at Wembley Stadium. The South Korean boy band BTS also played two sold-out concerts at Wembley Stadium on June 1 and 2, 2019 as part of their Speak Yourself Stadium World Tour . This makes them the first artists from Asia to perform there.

Trivia

As part of the new construction, a new pedestrian bridge was built at the nearby Wembley Stadium station, the name of which was to be determined in an online survey by the BBC in 2005 . Of more than 670,000 votes, mainly from Germany, Dietmar Hamann Bridge was suggested the most - the German international had scored the last goal in the old Wembley Stadium and thus brought England a serious defeat. Ultimately, however, this proposal was rejected and the bridge was instead named after a police horse, The White Horse Bridge, who was particularly capable during the first FA Cup final in the old stadium .

See also

• List of the largest football stadiums in the world
• List of the largest stadiums in the world

literature

• Kenneth Powell, Patrick Barclay: Wembley Stadium: Venue of Legends . Ed .: David Jenkins. Prestel, Munich, London 2007, ISBN 978-3-7913-3773-9 . (English)

Web links

Commons : Wembley Stadium  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wembley National Stadium (English)
• Football Ground Guide (English)
• Official website London 2012 ( Memento of January 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
• Wembley Stadium - Portrait of a Place of Worship Article dated May 25, 2013
• Detailed picture gallery

Individual evidence

1. ↑ wembleystadium.com: Desso pitch installed at Wembley (English)
2. ↑ faz.net: Wembley Stadium - England's Expensive Football Grail Castle Article from May 25, 2013, accessed on July 16, 2013
3. ↑ wembleystadium.com: Stats and Facts (English)
4. ↑ "Football Schedule" (PDF; 2.6 MB) website from London 2012. Accessed on February 16, 2011 (English)
5. ↑ stadionwelt.de: Spurs move for Champions League games fix article from May 31, 2016
6. ↑ tottenhamhotspur.com: Club Announcement - Wembley Stadium Article from May 28, 2016 (English)
7. ↑ St. Petersburg, Munich and London get CL final. In: stadionwelt.de. September 25, 2019, accessed September 25, 2019 . 
8. ↑ UEFA EURO 2020 - EURO 2020 opens in Rome, London gets more games. In: uefa.com. UEFA, December 7, 2017, accessed December 11, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Wembley is applying for the CL final in 2023. In: stadionwelt.de. August 2, 2019, accessed August 7, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Stadiums for RWC 2015 ( Memento from July 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
11. ^ Wembley sets another Rugby World Cup attendance record. In: Reuters UK. Retrieved May 26, 2016 (UK English). 
12. ^ Saints and Tigers play-off fight to outshine Wembley world record tilt. In: The Independent. April 15, 2016, Retrieved May 26, 2016 (UK English). 
13. ↑ BBC Sport: Wembley to host Dolphins & Giants , February 2, 2007, accessed November 11, 2008
14. ↑ setlist.fm: Concerts at Wembley Stadium (English)
15. ^ White Horse Bridge wins Wembley vote. The Guardian , May 24, 2005, accessed November 9, 2015 .