Here you can post everything about Irish soccer stadiums. According to www.worldstadiums.com there's no Irish soccer stadium with a capacity above 10,000. Pretty strange, according to the site it seems only Ireland, Canada and the United States don't care about soccer. But I doubt on that about Ireland. They have a very strong national team, but how come there are no big soccer stadiums, or are they there?
We have what you might call one proper stadium for football, that is also used for Rugby the Aviva Stadium (Lansdowne Road) in Dublin. Its currently being redeveloped and should open sometime this year. Think its will have around a 50,000 capacity. Windsor Park (30,000 capacity) in Belfast could be considered as another stadium for football, but its in desperate need of redevelopment. Other than that There aren't too many stadium used for football over the 10,000 capacity. I'd think most grounds hold an average between 3,000-8,000, but are very rarely filled and most grounds are in need of redeveloping!
http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_pictures/europe/ireland/dublin_tallaght.shtml Tallaght Stadium is the most recently built stadium and is the only UEFA 3 star facility on the island. It currently has 5,700 seats but temporary seating was installed for the visit of Real Madrid last July bringing capacity on that great day to 11,000. Ireland's biggest club are the current sole tenants of ths stadium: www.tallaghtstadium.ie KOH
Dalymount Park (est 1901) once had a capacity of nearly 50,000 but unfortunately years of neglect by successive Bohemian FC boards as well as the apathy of the Irish public towards the domestic game have resulted in it now having a "safe" capacity of just 6,000. In response to an earlier post, Dalymount is traditionally the "Home of Irish Football", where Internationals, Cup Finals and bigger European ties were staged. Lansdowne Road has always been a rugby ground where football is also played. Despite the FAI sharing the cost of the building that constitutes the new Lansdowne (Aviva) Stadium, the IRFU own the land and the pitch, effectively making it still a rugby stadium that hosts football matches.
Windsor now only holds 12,000 unfortunately it really needs redevelopment, caught the match there last night just out of interest and noticed how run down it was.
OP, soccer is not the biggest spectator sport in ireland. hurling, gaelic football, and rugby respectively, are more popular.
Football is the most popular sport in Ireland but the locals wont support senior clubs is another way of looking at it. KOH
hence why i said spectator sport. i know plenty about the country i was born and raised in. thanks mate.
Fecking perfidious Irish fans! Only bandwagon jumpers, Ole, Ole, Ole and all that right? So great we have you here to patrol and inform us who the heretics are, but it must be a very tough job. Let us know when your Ayatollah duties get too heavy, now won't you?
Does ANYONE have any idea what this means? Anyone? It seems a dictionary exploded and these were the first or only 4 four that survived the explosion intact. Truth. Always. Hurts. Obsessed. It would make as much sense as 'Always hurts, truth obsessed'. Or maybe 'Truth always, obsessed hurts'. I suppose one could working one's way through all 24 options with 4 words, but why bother? It'll never make sense. And the wonder is that this is supposed to be some sort of pithy saying or truism. Oh well. "Soylent green is people" I suppose.
Yes, take counties like Kerry, Limerick, Clare, Tipperary (as examples) you're right, no GAA, no rugby ball. Most of Connaught, again all about soccerball. Dublin has no GAA tradition whatsoever either. Neither does Cark. There's no such thing as provincial rugby teams in either province either. Er, riiiiiggggght. You're a right character Hoopy and no mistake.
I object to this post on the grounds that it unnecessarily takes the piss out of the Ayatollah who rules Irish soccerball. Amen, now and forever.
I would love it if soccerball ruled the roost in Oireland. But it doesn't. Call me thick, but I'm kinda lost here. Oh, just call me thick.
i'd be very surprised, amazed actually, if club level rugby gets higher spectator numbers than club level football.
Where does outside of Dublin attracts high soccerball figures. Cork, perhaps, that is more or less it though. I can't believe how many of you true Irish soccerball watching patriots understimate Gahball. Of any code. I'm not denying Hoopy's claim that alot of 'fans' head down to the pub to watch Manure, Liverpool, Arsenal or whoever. But on that basis Hoopy is contradicting himself. No?
Actually you're right but since the game went prof, please do not tell me any provincial team reaching the Heineken Cup final would have a lower profile than an LOI team getting to Europe. It wouldn't. And that to me is more of an issue than Irish people supporting English soccerball teams.