Countries (13 nations)

Each country page gathers its grounds and cities, with the matchday culture that distinguishes one football nation from another.

Austrian alpine valley town with green mountains, a church spire and a small football stadium below
1 grounds

Austria

Austria's national ground has stood in Vienna's Prater park since 1931 and was rebuilt for Euro 2008.

Danish harbour town with a modern bridge, low colourful houses and calm grey-blue water
1 grounds

Denmark

Denmark's national stadium doubles as the home of FC Copenhagen, ten minutes from the centre of the city by metro.

English green countryside with hedgerows, a market town and the roof of a large football stadium behind
10 grounds

England

England has the deepest concentration of large grounds in Europe: ten of the stadiums in this guide are here, from the 90,000-seat national stadium at Wembley to the historic grounds of the north-west and the north-east.

French countryside with rows of vines, a stone village and a distant city skyline
3 grounds

France

France offers two very different models: the tight, historic Parc des Princes inside Paris and the vast national stadium at Saint-Denis, plus Marseille's Vélodrome in the south.

German river valley with a modern city, bridges and the white roof of a football stadium
3 grounds

Germany

Germany combines enormous capacity with the cheapest and most fan-friendly matchday culture in Europe, from the yellow wall in Dortmund to the retractable roof in Gelsenkirchen.

Hungarian riverside town on the Danube bend with a historic basilica and a long bridge
1 grounds

Hungary

Hungary's national stadium opened in 2019 on the site of the ground where the country's golden team played, beside the City Park in Budapest.

Italian hilly landscape with cypress trees, a domed hill town and warm late-afternoon light
4 grounds

Italy

Italy's grounds are among the most atmospheric in Europe, and several are shared between two clubs, most famously the San Siro in Milan and the Olimpico in Rome.

Dutch polder landscape with a windmill, straight canals and flat green fields
2 grounds

Netherlands

The Netherlands pairs the modern Johan Cruyff Arena in Amsterdam with De Kuip in Rotterdam, one of Europe's oldest and loudest grounds.

Polish historic city square with rebuilt colourful facades and cobblestones in daylight
1 grounds

Poland

Poland's national stadium was built for Euro 2012 with a retractable roof, and is unusual in having both a metro stop and a railway station at its gates.

Portuguese Atlantic coast with a terracotta-roofed white town above blue water
2 grounds

Portugal

Portugal's two biggest grounds, the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon and the Estádio do Dragão in Porto, were both built or rebuilt for Euro 2004 and both are on the metro.

Scottish loch with steep mountains, a stone village and low clouds
2 grounds

Scotland

Scotland's football is built around Glasgow, where Celtic Park and Ibrox stand a few miles apart and hold more than 110,000 seats between them.

Spanish Mediterranean coast with a hillside white town and bright blue sea
5 grounds

Spain

Spain pairs two of the largest grounds in Europe — the rebuilt Bernabéu and the Camp Nou — with a set of older, tighter stadiums in the north and south.

Turkish strait with domed mosques and slender minarets above the water at golden hour
2 grounds

Turkey

Turkey's grounds combine vast national-stadium capacity with some of the most intense club atmospheres in Europe, all on the European side of Istanbul.