Stadium Insight

Stadiums, stats & practical facts.

Capacities, seating plans and the practical detail of getting into a ground. Every figure here is attributed to the source that published it, with the date it was checked — and, where a club contradicts itself, all of its figures rather than the convenient one.

Rankings

• Premier League stadiums by capacity The 2026/27 grounds, ranked. Eighteen of the twenty — the page says which two are missing and why.
• Largest stadiums in Europe Wembley leads at 90,000, not Camp Nou, which is operating at 62,652 during rebuilding.
• Biggest stadiums in the world Twelve of the largest venues on earth are American college grounds built for 1920s crowds.

Stadium pages

11 grounds are written up in detail so far, each built only where a club or venue publishes enough to say something a reader cannot get from the club's own page.

• Signal Iduna Park 81,365 with standing, and a full block plan — the most any club in the research set publishes.
• Murrayfield Ninety-nine sections with seven numbers missing, and why a rugby international has no away end.
• Old Trafford Manchester United publish four capacities. This uses the one filed with a regulator.
• Falmer Stadium Brighton publish four figures too, and one project is stated to produce two different totals.
• Tottenham Hotspur Stadium 62,850 by the club's count, 62,062 by the league's.
• Gamla Ullevi Two capacities for one ground, and three senior clubs sharing it.
• Strawberry Arena Sweden's national arena publishes no exact capacity at all.
• Vitality Stadium The smallest ground in the Premier League, and the one most likely to change.
• Villa Park The only English ground in the set that publishes a full block map of all four stands.
• Craven Cottage A capacity with two qualifications inside it, and a listed stand whose columns block the view.
• Portman Road Visiting wheelchair users are not in the away end — they sit among home fans.

How the figures are sourced

Only official sources: the stadium's own site, the resident club's, or the body that owns it. Not Wikipedia, not stadium databases, not aggregators. Where two figures disagree, both are shown with their publishers rather than averaged or quietly resolved.

Each page states whether its sources were verified — someone opened the cited page and read the figure off it — or merely accepted from research. Most currently say accepted, and they say so at the top rather than in a footnote.