Football Ground Map
Football Ground Map
The latest football ground news from around the world. New stadiums, ground renovations and records - it's all here. Heard some news that you think should be featured? Drop us a line through the contact page. Want to keep up-to-date with the latest stadium news by email? Sign up to the site and join the monthly stadium newsletter.
Monday 6th March 2023
The New Saints have broken ground on a project to build a new 800-seater stand at their Park Hall Stadium.
The new stand is expected to cost around £1m and will increase the ground's capacity from 1,000 to around 1,600. It is being built to ensure the ground meets the required standards to host UEFA competition qualifying matches from next season onwards.
TNS are currently 15 points clear at the top of the Welsh Premier League, which will see them qualify for the Champions League next season.
Wednesday 1st March 2023
Austrian Bundesliga side LASK have played the first game in their new Raiffeisen Arena.
The club beat Austria Lustenau 1-0 with a goal in the 4th minute of injury time.
The new stadium cost around €30m to build and is located in Linz - the 3rd largest city in Austria, approximately halfway between Salzburg and Vienna.
Thursday 23rd February 2023
Football Ground Map is expanding into new sports! We have rugby and cricket versions due to launch shortly and I'm looking for people to help me out with adding new stadiums and creating graphics.
Adding new stadiums involves researching the teams, grounds and leagues all around the world, finding the coordinates on Google Maps and then uploading them to the site - it's a pretty simple process, but can be fascinating researching teams and stadiums around the world.
If you're good with graphics (or you want to learn), the sites also need numerous images creating for them, including each team's crest and a header image of the home stadiums (as we have on footballgroundmap.com).
So, if you're passionate about cricket or rugby, drop me a line (or reply to this email).
Saturday 18th February 2023
New Canadian league side Vancouver FC have revealed plans to build a new 6,500 capacity stadium.
The stadium is being dubbed "the flat pack stadium" whose modular design is already being shipped in, with the aim to open in just a few months.
Vancouver FC will become the city's second major football club, after Vancouver Whitecaps who play in the MLS Western Conference at the 55,000 capacity BC Place.
Saturday 18th February 2023
Spanish side CD Eldense have revealed plans to build a new stadium.
The 3rd division sides have their sights set on the Primiera Liga, and a new 18,000 seater stadium is essential to that plan.
Eldense are based in the city of Elda, close to Alicante and Benidorm in the south east of the country.
Saturday 18th February 2023
League One side Forest Green Rovers have started construction of their new wooden stadium.
The new ground will have a capacity of around 5,000 and is being built next to junction 13 of the M5 motorway, around 10 miles away from the New Lawn.
The wider development will also host a number of carbon-neutral businesses and the site will generate 80% of its own power requirements.
Sunday 12th February 2023
The Olympic Stadium in Athens has been temporarily closed after routine safety checks found issues with the metalwork in the roof.
Panathinaikos currently use the 70,000 capacity stadium to host their European home matches.
Wednesday 1st February 2023
UEFA has moved the location of this year's UEFA Super Cup from the Russian city of Kazan to Athens in response to the war in Ukraine.
It is the latest in a long line of sporting sanctions against Russia, having been disqualified from the 2022 World Cup, thrown out of UEFA competitions and also losing the right to host last year's Champions League final, which should have been held in St Petersburg.
The match will now be played in Athens' Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, home of Olympiacos.
Friday 27th January 2023
A fan survey of over 11,000 people conducted in several European nations has revealed the top 10 ways supporters would like to improve their matchday experience.
Fans of football, basketball, tennis, volleyball and cycling voted the following as their most-desired changes to matchdays:
Almost half of the people surveyed didn't attend a live sporting event in 2022 (the other half must have gone to matches in America), but the list is an interesting insight into the changes that may come into football in future years (hopefully not!).
Tuesday 10th January 2023
Barcelona have revealed that they expect to lose up to €100m in matchday revenue when they move to the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys next season.
The move comes as Barca look to expand the Camp Nou to 105,000 capacity, but will need to play the 2023/24 season away from their home ground whilst the construction work takes place.
The club have started working on modernising the Lluis Companys, but attendances will be significantly down next year as the stadium only holds 55,000.
Barca are also having to pay to upgrade several areas around the stadium including for better public transportation routes and lighting.
Monday 2nd January 2023
Villarreal have moved back into their revamped El Madrigal after development work completed on schedule.
The La Liga outfit has spent the previous 6 months modernising their stadium, including building a new corner stand which now fully encloses the ground.
Instead of increasing capacity, seats in other stands have been spaced out more to give fans more room - as a result, the capacity has remained static at 22,000.
Other improvements include 2 new large screens and the replacing of all seats inside the stadium, which are now all covered by a roof.
The first match at the revamped stadium saw Villarreal beat Valencia 2-1 on New Year's Eve. Ironically, the Yellow Submarine had been playing in the nearby city of Valencia at Levante's Cuidad de Valencia whilst the modifications took place.
Monday 26th December 2022
A new 10,000 seater stadium is to be built in Hunedoara, Romania.
The stadium will be known as the Complexului Sportiv Michael Klein and will be the new home of Liga III side Corvinul Hunedoara.
The new stadium will have a capacity of just over 10,000 and cost around £55m to build. The project is expected to take a little under 2 and a half years to complete.
This is the second new stadium to be announced in Romania after plans were revealed for a new ground to be named after national legend Georgie Hagi.
