Luigi Ferraris is a glorious stadium. Full of character, unique and imposing as well as in a great city. A great place to visit if you're ever in Genoa.
I’m a Sampdoria fan and I have season tickets there. The athmosphere is incredible and it has an intimate, passionate setting. The pitch is in horrific conditions, but other than that it’s a unique stadium
I have a great love for Italian stadiums because of Italia 90, but it’s strange to see how little has changed for most of those stadiums in the last 30 years. That said, the San Siro is still my all time favourite stadium and if it does get demolished, it will be sadly missed.
It's incredible to think that the San Siro opened only about half a dozen years after the cowshed that was the original Wembley Stadium. It will be an act of cultural vandalism if it is demolished, it should be declared a World Heritage Site. I know the narrator joked about bulldozing The Colosseum, but, for me, demolishing probably the greatest football stadium ever built would be just as great a loss. It's worth saving at any cost.
Loving the videos man - as a stadium geek and Serie A nostalgist, this was my favourite. Italy really has a certain strange, delapidated style to their stadiums. Maybe worth doing a best-of-the rest Italian stadium video at some point. I love Bari's flower-like concrete monster for example.
@@francesco4302 I'd love to see that unique stadium ("L’astronave" - "the space ship") in one of his videos! Unfortunately, I've never been there, but especially the outside looks incredible!
If you ever go to Naples you will know why Maradona has their stadium named after him. He has shrines all over the city from his time with Napoli and winning a few titles with them.
This is a really great idea! I think the most beautiful and fascinating stadiums are the ones of smaller clubs internationally. DusselfDorf has a GORGEOUS stadium from memory
Bologna's stadium Renato Dall'Ara is actually set to be renewed in the next 3 years, increasing the capacity and with all the seats to be covered, instead of just a section.
yeeh sure. 10 years ago they said: it will be renewed in 3 years. trust me, it will take a long time before seeing actual renovations in italian stadiums.
I went to the San Paolo (Stadio Diego Armando Maradona) in Naples just before the facelift and it was a shithole. No concessions, leaky toilets with literal rivers of urine running across the concourse, and incredibly uncomfortable seats. Hopefully the renovations fixed some of the problems
This video makes me a little sad. While I understand their flaws, I feel like there is real beauty in some of the rounded stadiums in rural Italy. I hope at least some of them are (safely) maintained. Fiorentina's stadium is absolutely gorgeous
As an Arsenal fan, two of the featured stadiums have been the location for some of the greatest football moments of my life. Stadio Olimpico - Roma 1 Arsenal 3. Henry with a hat-trick and one of the best individual performances I have witnessed. San Siro - Inter 1 Arsenal 5. The most iconic stadium on the planet - the most extraordinary result in my lifetime. Yeah, you can win away at a European giant but not 5-1. The entire evening felt like a dream. I'm going to miss the old girl when she goes.
Please do a Stadium Video for the Turkish Süper Lig, since it's so diverse. Some clubs literally have brand new stadiums whereas other play in quite run down places, it would be sooo interesting! Or maybe the Austrian Bundesliga
Amazing that with a league team having a stadium capacity of 7,450 that has space to park 5 coaches next to the pitch they are thinking of knocking the most iconic that has a capacity of 80,000 and is loved by fans the world over.
Have seen a match between Lazio-Sampdoria at the Olympic Stadium in Rome. As tourists we were wondering why everybody brought a match newspaper. To sit on!. There was a lot of seagull crap on the seats 😎
Serie A’s heyday was in the 90s where all the big stars of Europe head to following the Italia ‘90 WC but it’s unfortunate that not many stadiums have been upgraded since, the worst part though is that despite the stadiums all having low capacity, you watch the game and all you see is empty seats…
The Milan Derby in a UCL semi-final at the San Siro , the year before the stadium is demolished. What a fitting ending for such an iconic ground Milanista Last Dance
Many of these stadiums are simply a shame for a premier division in a country where football is the most practiced and followed sport. Who goes to the stadium on a rainy day, is forced to get completely wet or follow the match with an umbrella. Is such a thing possible in 2021?
It's in a lovely setting, but Venezia's stadium is really like a very minor non-league semi-professional English football ground in the eighth tier, and a pretty decrepit one at that. It's quite astonishing they will be hosting clubs like Juventus and Inter there next season. But good luck to them, I hope they can stay up.
There was a "moat" (empty concrete deep trench) in the former SAn Paolo when I lived in Naples 1987-1991.. NOt sure if its still there. it was between the "Anello Inferiore" and the athelitc track around the pitch
some of them yes. but mostly they're round because the italian sports federation in the past gave some money if you were going to build a stadium with a athletics track, so to make it "multifunctional".
@@mattiasantangelo9421 Ah that explains the running tracks, i always wondered why so many stadiums had tracks... because the Italian people don´t seem extremely interested in track and fields!
truth about italian stadiums: gewiss stadium will not be finished, new stadiums will not be built. old stadiums will remain the same forever. in italy it's impossible to build something.
Same in Belgium. Club Brugge is trying to build a new stadium since 2009 because theirs is too small and just dangerous to be in but they can't even find a ground to build it on.
So most Italian clubs have antiquated, ugly, and overall bad stadiums that half of them have to share with another club, which is in most cases their rival? Damn.
see Stadio Benite Stirpe of Frosinone Calcio! It's a new stadium and the team played in it in Serie A in 2018/19 (they also played in Serie A in 2015/2016 but the new stadium wasn't complete). The stadium is property of the Team for 45 years.
Suggestion. For these big soccer leagues I think you should do some research and find the stadiums of teams in the lower divisions that have been demoted to those divisions. But historically have spent a lot of time in the top division in their respective countries. Like Shalke in Germany. Their are several cases in several countries where big named clubs with decent sized stadiums have been demoted to lower divisions.
Agreed. One of Italy's best stadiums (Nereo Rocco Stadium in Trieste) hasn't seen Serie A in decades because its home club (Triestina) has always been in 2nd or 3rd division. Edit: also Renzo Barbera Stadium in Palermo is really good, but Palermo currently plays in 3rd division due to financial problems (even though the club played in Serie A for almost 20 years).
little titbit about the semi demolished Caligari stadium. In the 1990 World Cup the organisers made England play all their group games there.. to keep England fans off the mainland !
Most rectangular stadiums are bland and boring. That being said, the Florence stadium was actually build as an hommage to Mussolini; his nickname was Il Duce, and if you look closely, you will notice the shape of the building is a giant"D". De for Duce.
I am Italian and after seeing this video ,waiting the new stadiums of bologna firenze atalanta and cagliari I can say half are good the others are shit 😅
As a Roma fan I still find it sickening that we have to share with those actual Mussolini loving nazis, Lazio. Can’t wait for the new stadio. They can have the decrepit pile.
Most of Italy's stadiums were build and upgraded during Italian footballs boom in the late 80s and early 90s and have not been upgraded since. Take that with the decline of Italian football post 2011 and you get allot of run down stadiums
the worst is the fiorentina stadium, how does a team like Fiorentina that has gone to the Champions League and Europa League many times to have such a horrendous stadium?
Luigi Ferraris is a glorious stadium. Full of character, unique and imposing as well as in a great city. A great place to visit if you're ever in Genoa.
The toilets don't look good though
I’m a Sampdoria fan and I have season tickets there. The athmosphere is incredible and it has an intimate, passionate setting. The pitch is in horrific conditions, but other than that it’s a unique stadium
@@guglielmonicolini3684 Love it. All the best with your survival!
I have a great love for Italian stadiums because of Italia 90, but it’s strange to see how little has changed for most of those stadiums in the last 30 years. That said, the San Siro is still my all time favourite stadium and if it does get demolished, it will be sadly missed.
Pity Bari aren't in Serie A. That stadium seemed so futuristic at the time and so unlike anything in England.
@@johnporter5173 Agreed, it was totally unique at the time. Given the state of it now however, it’s probably better they’re out of the limelight.
It's incredible to think that the San Siro opened only about half a dozen years after the cowshed that was the original Wembley Stadium. It will be an act of cultural vandalism if it is demolished, it should be declared a World Heritage Site. I know the narrator joked about bulldozing The Colosseum, but, for me, demolishing probably the greatest football stadium ever built would be just as great a loss. It's worth saving at any cost.
@@tonyboneMK Completely agree! It’s truly unique and awe inspiring in a way no modern day bowl stadium can ever be!
I bleed Azzuri but, man they MUST keep up with the times. WOW!!!!!!
Loving the videos man - as a stadium geek and Serie A nostalgist, this was my favourite. Italy really has a certain strange, delapidated style to their stadiums. Maybe worth doing a best-of-the rest Italian stadium video at some point. I love Bari's flower-like concrete monster for example.
Stadio San Nicola
@@francesco4302 I'd love to see that unique stadium ("L’astronave" - "the space ship") in one of his videos! Unfortunately, I've never been there, but especially the outside looks incredible!
The best stadium channel by far - great mix of history, geekiness, and informed humour
Cheers!
The goat is back
Love the Udinese stadium!
Going to the Venice stadium with your family on a boat sounds like a great day. If the team wins that's a bonus.
If you ever go to Naples you will know why Maradona has their stadium named after him. He has shrines all over the city from his time with Napoli and winning a few titles with them.
Could you show the stadiums of the 2nd Bundesliga that would be interresting?
Better than serie a Stadiums hahaha
He already did
...nvm he didn't I mistaken his Euro 2024 video for it
Yes please
Will do! Eventually.
This is a really great idea! I think the most beautiful and fascinating stadiums are the ones of smaller clubs internationally. DusselfDorf has a GORGEOUS stadium from memory
Bologna's stadium Renato Dall'Ara is actually set to be renewed in the next 3 years, increasing the capacity and with all the seats to be covered, instead of just a section.
yeeh sure. 10 years ago they said: it will be renewed in 3 years.
trust me, it will take a long time before seeing actual renovations in italian stadiums.
Everytime I'm seeing Bologna FC in the scores and fixtures or their stadium, I'm getting reminded of Ragù alla bolognese which is always a good thing.
I went to the pre-developed Friuli Stadium, home of Udinese so Udinese is my Italian team. My main club is Plymouth Argyle, Ehgland league 1.
I went to the San Paolo (Stadio Diego Armando Maradona) in Naples just before the facelift and it was a shithole. No concessions, leaky toilets with literal rivers of urine running across the concourse, and incredibly uncomfortable seats. Hopefully the renovations fixed some of the problems
This video makes me a little sad. While I understand their flaws, I feel like there is real beauty in some of the rounded stadiums in rural Italy. I hope at least some of them are (safely) maintained. Fiorentina's stadium is absolutely gorgeous
The Fiorentina stadium is part of the Cultural Heritage
good humour. Great videos.
Please show the stadiums of smaller leagues like Andorra, San Marino, Gibraltar
I’m afraid that they have only one stadium each.
@@johnprice164 Andorra has four. Gibraltar only one. San Marino i think that they only have one but i am not sure. Liechtenstein has 2 thar i know of
Venezia stadium 🔥🔥🔥
Half these stadiums look exactly the same
Only if you look with your eyes closed .. ,😎😉😆😆😆
Yeah and most of them sharing their stadiums 😂
That's fascist architecture for you
@@jerkteen4090 this sets derby on a whole new different level
As an Arsenal fan, two of the featured stadiums have been the location for some of the greatest football moments of my life.
Stadio Olimpico - Roma 1 Arsenal 3. Henry with a hat-trick and one of the best individual performances I have witnessed.
San Siro - Inter 1 Arsenal 5. The most iconic stadium on the planet - the most extraordinary result in my lifetime. Yeah, you can win away at a European giant but not 5-1. The entire evening felt like a dream. I'm going to miss the old girl when she goes.
Wembley stadium italy win euro 2020
Please do a Stadium Video for the Turkish Süper Lig, since it's so diverse. Some clubs literally have brand new stadiums whereas other play in quite run down places, it would be sooo interesting!
Or maybe the Austrian Bundesliga
Just subscribed to your channel yesterday and I'm watching all the videos XD
It’s nice all stadiums are still in city centers where as in Western Europe more outside the city, in industrial/ office areas
Amazing that with a league team having a stadium capacity of 7,450 that has space to park 5 coaches next to the pitch they are thinking of knocking the most iconic that has a capacity of 80,000 and is loved by fans the world over.
It was great having a team from Venice in Italy's top flight last season.
Have seen a match between Lazio-Sampdoria at the Olympic Stadium in Rome. As tourists we were wondering why everybody brought a match newspaper. To sit on!. There was a lot of seagull crap on the seats 😎
Syria has quite a lot of good stadiums
Serie A’s heyday was in the 90s where all the big stars of Europe head to following the Italia ‘90 WC but it’s unfortunate that not many stadiums have been upgraded since, the worst part though is that despite the stadiums all having low capacity, you watch the game and all you see is empty seats…
Cause of Covid restrictions mate
80s
From what I remember, I’m sure you can walk inside the Udinese arch
Another great video. I'd love to see you do NRL.
"The Birmingham of the south" :)
Excellent! I love watching your videos, informative and funny!
Thank you 👍
Cheers!
The Milan Derby in a UCL semi-final at the San Siro , the year before the stadium is demolished.
What a fitting ending for such an iconic ground Milanista Last Dance
If compared with premier league, Bundes liga, La Liga / Ligue 1 i think the stadium in seria A most ancient but even so i still like serie A
Stadiums of the Portuguese League or the Russian League next.
I love Serie A 💙
4:55 of course no one seems to sit there it’s a Chievo match not hellas Verona
Many of these stadiums are simply a shame for a premier division in a country where football is the most practiced and followed sport. Who goes to the stadium on a rainy day, is forced to get completely wet or follow the match with an umbrella. Is such a thing possible in 2021?
It's in a lovely setting, but Venezia's stadium is really like a very minor non-league semi-professional English football ground in the eighth tier, and a pretty decrepit one at that. It's quite astonishing they will be hosting clubs like Juventus and Inter there next season. But good luck to them, I hope they can stay up.
Love the vid! Now I want a moat at my local stadiums!
There was a "moat" (empty concrete deep trench) in the former SAn Paolo when I lived in Naples 1987-1991.. NOt sure if its still there. it was between the "Anello Inferiore" and the athelitc track around the pitch
The disparity is strong in here.
I do like the Italian stadiums. They have character. I think some of them served as velodromes in the past hence the round shape.
some of them yes. but mostly they're round because the italian sports federation in the past gave some money if you were going to build a stadium with a athletics track, so to make it "multifunctional".
@@mattiasantangelo9421 Ah that explains the running tracks, i always wondered why so many stadiums had tracks... because the Italian people don´t seem extremely interested in track and fields!
Thank, you or should I say Grazie for this video I lived in Italy during the mid 1990s.
truth about italian stadiums: gewiss stadium will not be finished, new stadiums will not be built. old stadiums will remain the same forever.
in italy it's impossible to build something.
Same in Belgium. Club Brugge is trying to build a new stadium since 2009 because theirs is too small and just dangerous to be in but they can't even find a ground to build it on.
So most Italian clubs have antiquated, ugly, and overall bad stadiums that half of them have to share with another club, which is in most cases their rival? Damn.
yep. and don't forget: most italian clubs don't even own the stadium
No matter what I'm doing on the net... Everything stops.. When you drop a video.
Do stadiums in Norway, Denmark and Sweden :)
see Stadio Benite Stirpe of Frosinone Calcio! It's a new stadium and the team played in it in Serie A in 2018/19 (they also played in Serie A in 2015/2016 but the new stadium wasn't complete). The stadium is property of the Team for 45 years.
Guiseppe Meazza 💙🖤
5:57 Allianz is great except for the cables in each corner. Unfortunate design flaw .
The Udinese’s stradium isn’t Stadio Friuli anymore, but now is called Dacia Arena. Great video!
I get a kick of your pronunciations! Nice job!
Next up ! Turkey Super Lig Club Stadium ! 😍
Can you make one of the Dutch Eredivisie stadiums?
10:25
sorry mate but this is the asian pronunciation of the italian
A lot of the stadium’s really need upgrading
Great video. Subbed
My favorite Serie A stadium is the Bologna stadium...
Suggestion. For these big soccer leagues I think you should do some research and find the stadiums of teams in the lower divisions that have been demoted to those divisions. But historically have spent a lot of time in the top division in their respective countries. Like Shalke in Germany. Their are several cases in several countries where big named clubs with decent sized stadiums have been demoted to lower divisions.
Agreed. One of Italy's best stadiums (Nereo Rocco Stadium in Trieste) hasn't seen Serie A in decades because its home club (Triestina) has always been in 2nd or 3rd division.
Edit: also Renzo Barbera Stadium in Palermo is really good, but Palermo currently plays in 3rd division due to financial problems (even though the club played in Serie A for almost 20 years).
little titbit about the semi demolished Caligari stadium. In the 1990 World Cup the organisers made England play all their group games there.. to keep England fans off the mainland !
Most rectangular stadiums are bland and boring.
That being said, the Florence stadium was actually build as an hommage to Mussolini; his nickname was Il Duce, and if you look closely, you will notice the shape of the building is a giant"D". De for Duce.
Bologna is also planning to renovate the stadium.
Norwegian watching here 🏆🏅🇧🇻🇧🇻
Please make a video about Turkish SüperLig Stadiums. Many have been just built newly.
I've noticed out of all your videos you don't have one African stadium 🤪
I am Italian and after seeing this video ,waiting the new stadiums of bologna firenze atalanta and cagliari I can say half are good the others are shit 😅
Could you show the stadiums of the Swiss Super League that would be interresting?
I love the winter Olympics
can you do national league stadiums for England? that would be cool
You should do these videos on race tracks
Very old stadiums
You should do the U.S.’ Northwoods baseball league if you haven’t yet
Is the moat castle from sassuolo Grad Sneznik
I like when you say Grandee Torinho 🤣
Those italians Stadiums looks like have 100 years... A don't know If i love or hate It.... Sad for Delle alp....
Lol. I am From Norway and your correct haha
I really hope I could visit San siro before they demolished it
second and could you do USL league two stadiums?
There are just so many. But maybe.
I live in Thailand and we have better stadiums than this lmfao
In italy we have a big disparity from the stadium of a small team to a stadium of a strong team.
in indonesia we have better to for almost this past 10 year we build more new stadium than the Italian
the dall’ara is going to be renovated in 2022/2023 there is renders on the internet
They won't knock down San Siro. The new stadium, which was officially confirmed yesterday, will be built on another site. San Siro will always stand.
Penzo stadium Venice❤❤❤❤
The 2010 World Cup briefly put South Africa in the football spotlight; have you covered their stadiums, yet?
As a Roma fan I still find it sickening that we have to share with those actual Mussolini loving nazis, Lazio. Can’t wait for the new stadio. They can have the decrepit pile.
Wtf why you put the photo of roma in the hellas verona stadium? Are u mad?
The Diego Armando maradona stadium was rennoved in 2019
do 21/22 south african premier league stadiums
in romania more new stadium then in Italy
Most of Italy's stadiums were build and upgraded during Italian footballs boom in the late 80s and early 90s and have not been upgraded since. Take that with the decline of Italian football post 2011 and you get allot of run down stadiums
the worst is the fiorentina stadium, how does a team like Fiorentina that has gone to the Champions League and Europa League many times to have such a horrendous stadium?
It is one of the most important examples of the architecture of the fascist period. It is a piece of history.
Let’s goooooo
San Siro ❤️
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Can you do la liga nos stadiums
How many subs do you have?
Hilarious jokes
Spezia stadium the best
poor stadiums they are always empty
'Norwegia'. Are you Kelly Bundy's son?
What are the circular things outside the Giuseppe Meazza?
That's the entrance. Just like multi level parking ramp. But, instead of car, it's for pedestrian
Thank you 👍🏻 great stadium