Countries (13 nations)

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

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1 grounds

Austria

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

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1 grounds

Denmark

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.