Westfalenstadion, Dortmund, of course! ;-) Last season highest average attendance in Europe....ever! Besides my beloved BVB's home stadium, I pretty much like San Siro as it is pure football history and still a great venue to watch football (though the seat are a bit outdated and more of Italian size).
The Westfalen looks amazing, and I'd love it if UK clubs were able to do the old terrracing for domestic matches/seating for European games effort. I think the atmosphere would improve dramatically. I was at Man City vs Norwich recently, and the City of Manchester stadium is very impressive, but you could have heard a pin drop at any stage during the 90 minutes! Of course, there are many valid reasons for not re-introducing terracing to British stadia, but if there's an improvvment in safety standards and stewarding I see no reason not to give it a bash.
San Siro gets my vote. Fantastic stadium, especially the two goal-ends on the first tier. Been there three times now and I loved it better every time. I also liked the Olympic stadium of A'dam. I'm one of the very few, but it had great atmosphere and was pitch dark except for the actual playing field. The red glow of the flares was tremendous. Only downside was that most of it was not covered and that the stands were a bit far away from the field. You've probably never been on a packed terrace, have you? The risk of standing itself is minimal. When I was about 12-15 most younger boys would stand on the downside of the terrace. The older guys were usually more to the top. If a goal was scored all hell broke loose and the whole pack was thrown down the terrace where everybody made a run for the fences. Great fun and really not that dangerous. It becomes dangerous when there are too many people in there, especially if they don't understand what's about to happen. But standing itself has very little to do with it.
theres one thing i like about White Hart Line its that thing that hands in one corner the circle thing
The Westfalenstadion in Dortmund is incredible. It's proof that an ultra-modern stadium can still produce a pounding atmosphere. I used to stand on the Südtribune and the atmosphere is simply deafening, especially when the teamsheets are read out. For those of you hyping the Olympiastadion here, forget it. Half of the ground is exposed to the elements, which is far from ideal in a Munich winter, and the atmosphere is rubbish. Granted, this has much to do with Bayern's pathetic support, but even with hardcore fans it would be difficult as the seats are miles away from the pitch. When 1860 München play there they get half the attendances Bayern do but the fans that do go make twice as much noise. The Maracana in Rio is a crumbling wreck where you're even further from the action than in the Olympiastadion. However, you can sense the history and on certain sides of the ground you can see the statue of Cristo Redentor, which is cool. The Monumental in Buenos Aires is a massive bowl which doesn't look like anything special at first, but inside the experience is incredible. The River fans make loads of noise (actually, Argentine supporters are the most frightening I've ever come across).
The New Waldstadion in Frankfurt! The roofconstruction is the biggest one of its kind in the world, and a masterpiece of arcitecture... There is gonna be a video-cube with 4 screens in the middle, where the roof will fold up into when tis closed. Check out the video: --> http://www.neues-waldstadion.de/de/downloads/dach-divx-3.avi
I gotta agree with much of what you say Richard. I ve only been to The Valley in London and I have to say, It was ok, but I would have loved to have been in the old Wembley or Hampden Park!!! the atmosphere alone would have been worthwhile. Shame that Hampden became a quasi-old wembley...ironic isnt it? the open terraces at least---I think lend some type of ambience to a Football ground. White Hart Lane is another ground that should have kept one old stand. because one of the stands was too classic to destroy, but they did anyway. I do hope to visit the Camp Nou someday.Its enormous no doubt, but its not as intimidating to play there as the San Siro from what my television viewing can decipher. It's a lulling kind of intimidation. I actually think when I saw the "superclassico" bet. Barca-Real, it was the first time I think I heard noise in that ground!!! other than applause in a gran opera....lol San Siro is something else when a Cup competition is played, otherwise when the redevelopment for World Cup'90 eliminated much of the supporter's ends where it is now raised, looks disjointed. I still have some old footage of it before the redevelopment. Luckily, the Ferraris stadium in Genoa still managed to retain it, yet I hope Sampdoria could do the same and retain their form!!!
Old Trafford is amazin, same with The Millenium Stadium in Cardiff.I can't really say whats the best Stadium in the world until Wembley, Arsenal & Liverpoools ground r finished though.Sam
I chose other, so Hampden Beautiful ground, Scotland's national stadium. That's just for soccer, the best stadium in the world is Michigan Stadium, which hosts American Football.
Croke Park in Dublin Irelandis the greatest but it does not host soccer matches. It's only used for Gaelic football and Hurling which are the national sports.........