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Mapped all 24 EFL Championship grounds for 2026/27.

- 658,248 seats. Only the Premier League (831k), the Bundesliga (795k) and

La Liga (776k) have more - the Championship is ahead of Serie A (584k)

and Ligue 1 (574k)

- 9 of the 24 grounds hold 30,000 or more

- Three of the 24 clubs aren't in England. Cardiff, Swansea and Wrexham sit

outside the highlighted area

- Largest: London Stadium, 62,500 (West Ham, just relegated). Smallest:

LNER Stadium, roughly 10,500 (Lincoln City, just promoted)

- Middlesbrough to Portsmouth is 421 km, the longest trip in the division

Shared grounds counted once. Data from Wikipedia and Transfermarkt.

More maps at stadiumsofeurope.com

Mapped every ground in the league for the new season.

- 18 clubs, 17 stadiums. Kasımpaşa and Eyüpspor share the Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Stadyumu
- 6 of the 18 are in Istanbul
- Three promoted: Erzurumspor FK (back after five seasons), plus Amedspor and Çorum FK, both in the top flight for the first time in their history
- Biggest: RAMS Park, 53,978. Smallest: Alanya Oba Stadyumu, 9,727
- İzmir to Erzurum is 1,231 km - Göztepe away at Erzurumspor is the longest trip in the league

Data from Wikipedia and Transfermarkt. More maps at https://www.stadiumsofeurope.com/

Mapped the new season. Two things stood out:

• Three derbies inside 6 km. Valencia–Levante are 2.3 km apart, Betis–Sevilla 3.2 km, Barça–Espanyol 5.4 km. Madrid's metropolitan area has four top-tier clubs, only London has more in a big-five league. Three sit within 8 km of each other; Getafe is the outlier at 15 km from the Metropolitano.
• Barça are still the third-biggest ground. Camp Nou is at 62,652 under the Phase 1C licence while the rebuild runs to 2027; the Bernabéu's 83,186 is comfortably the largest.

Data: Wikipedia & Transfermarkt · crests from Wikipedia/Commons. I map every European league here: https://www.stadiumsofeurope.com

Matchday 3 for the Austrian top flight. Three things I didn't expect on the AB map this year:

• It's tiny. The whole league fits in 512 km - Austria Wien to Altach is the longest trip, and the total capacity of all 12 grounds is 174,603, less than two Camp Nous.
• Two pairs of near-neighbours. Altach and Lustenau are 7.6 km apart in Vorarlberg; Rapid and Austria Wien 9.8 km apart in Vienna. Graz is the only groundshare - GAK and Sturm both at the Merkur Arena.
• The biggest ground isn't in Vienna. Red Bull Arena Salzburg holds 30,188; the largest in the capital is Rapid's Allianz Stadion at 28,000.

Crests and stadium data from Wikipedia and Transfermarkt. I map every European league here: https://www.stadiumsofeurope.com

Am cartografiat toate cele 16 echipe din SuperLiga. Două lucruri interesante:

• Patru cluburi în zona Bucureștiului, Rapid și Dinamo la doar 2 km distanță. Cea mai lungă deplasare: Farul -UTA Arad, 606 km.
• Cele două cluburi din Cluj sunt la 1,3 km unul de altul - CFR pe Dr. Constantin Rădulescu, U Cluj pe Cluj Arena.

Mențiune: Corvinul apare la Michael Klein în Hunedoara, stadionul lor de casă, deși în acest sezon joacă meciurile de acasă la Arad pentru că stadionul nu e licențiat pentru Liga 1.

Colecționez stadioanele din toate ligile europene aici: https://www.stadiumsofeurope.com

Date: Wikipedia & Transfermarkt.

Matchday 3 this weekend. Two things that stood out while mapping the league:

• Odense are the only club outside Jutland or Zealand. It's 7 in Jutland, 4 on Zealand, and OB alone on Funen.
• Four clubs sit within 16 km of each other around Copenhagen. FCK to Lyngby is 9.7 km, the longest trip in the league, FCK to Midtjylland, is 230 km.

I map the stadiums of every European league at https://www.stadiumsofeurope.com -corrections welcome, I fix them as they come in.

Data: Wikipedia & Transfermarkt.

Season kicks off today. Two things that stood out while mapping it:

• Rotterdam has 3 of the 18 clubs. Feyenoord and Excelsior are just 2.6 km apart, the closest pair in the league by some distance.
• The league covers 9 of the 12 provinces. Zeeland, Drenthe and Flevoland have no top-flight club. The longest away trip is Groningen to Fortuna Sittard, 251 km.

I map the stadiums of every European league at https://www.stadiumsofeurope.com - corrections always welcome, I fix them as they come in.

Data: Wikipedia & Transfermarkt.

Zum Auftakt morgen Abend (Bochum - Hertha) habe ich alle 18 Zweitliga-Stadien kartiert.

Zwei Dinge, die mir dabei aufgefallen sind:

• Der VfL Wolfsburg ist nach 29 Jahren Bundesliga wieder zweitklassig. Die Volkswagen Arena ist damit erstmals seit 1997 kein Erstliga-Stadion mehr.
• Die Liga ist geografisch extrem gespreizt. Fürth und Nürnberg trennen 11 km - Heidenheim und Kiel dagegen 632 km Luftlinie.

Daten: Wikipedia & Transfermarkt.

Season's it is just two days underway, so I mapped every ground.

• The league is 18 teams for the first time, and the play-offs are gone after 17 seasons. That's why three came up (Beveren, Kortrijk, Lommel) and only one went down (Dender, who lost the play-off to Lommel).
• 18 clubs but 17 grounds. Club Brugge and Cercle Brugge still share the Jan Breydel.
• The north/south imbalance. 13 clubs in Flanders, 2 in Brussels, just 3 in Wallonia - Standard, Charleroi and RAAL La Louvière.

Made with a stadium-map renderer I've been building.

2nd matchday of Swiss League just completed, where are the stadium clubs located this year?

Mapped all 12 grounds for the new season.

The odd one out is FC Vaduz, who are based in Liechtenstein. Liechtenstein is the only UEFA member with no domestic league at all. All seven of its clubs play in the Swiss system instead.

A few quirks that come with that:

• Vaduz can't win the Swiss title. If a Liechtenstein club finished top, the highest-placed Swiss club is champion.
• They can't qualify for Europe via the Swiss league either, the Liechtenstein Cup is their only route in.
• Elsewhere on the map: Zürich and Grasshopper share the Letzigrund, so 12 clubs but 11 stadiums. Capacity runs from St. Jakob-Park's 38,512 down to Vaduz's 6,441.

Made with a stadium-map renderer I've been building.

Season's underway, so I mapped all 12 grounds.

A few things that stand out:

• 7 of the 12 sit in the Central Belt between Kilmarnock and Falkirk
• Aberdeen is the only club north of Dundee and with Caley Thistle in the Championship and Ross County down in League One, there's nothing in the Highlands at all this season
• Dundee United and Dundee are 315 metres apart that's the two dots that look like one
• Capacity range is huge: Celtic Park 60,411 down to Falkirk and St Mirren on 7,937

Made with a map renderer I've been building for stadium data. Labels get placed automatically so they don't cover the markers.

The FIGC's deadline for Euro 2032 host-city dossiers passed at midnight on 31 July. On 1 August the federation confirmed what it received: 13 cities, 16 stadiums. Udine and Reggio Emilia, both talked about earlier in the process, didn't file.

The 13 cities: Bari, Bologna, Cagliari, Florence, Genoa, Lecce, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Rome, Salerno, Turin, Verona.

The reason it's 16 stadiums and not 13 is that two cities entered more than one project:

Rome submitted three, the existing Stadio Olimpico, the new Roma ground planned for Pietralata, and the Stadio Flaminio, Pier Luigi Nervi's 1959 arena that's been derelict since 2011. Lazio's proposal would restore the listed structure and take it from 24,973 to 50,750 seats by 2031.

Naples submitted two, and they're in direct competition — the city council's publicly funded renovation of the Stadio Maradona (~€250m, with €200m from the Regione Campania), against Aurelio De Laurentiis' privately financed new stadium on the 38-hectare former Q8 refinery site at San Giovanni a Teduccio (60–70,000 seats, reportedly over €1bn; the site's remediation finishes in late 2027).

What happens next: the FIGC shortlists five stadiums plus reserves by mid-September, and UEFA ratifies Italy's final five in the first week of October. Turkey gets the other five.

The catch: of the 16, only Turin's Allianz Stadium meets UEFA's requirements as it stands today. Every other bid depends on a renovation or a new build being delivered on time — and San Siro has already been reported as falling short of the standard.

Map shows all 16 Italian projects plus Turkey's 10 candidates.

Which five would you pick?

Two matchdays into the new Ekstraklasa season, the map looks strange.

Nothing in the north. Only two of the 18 clubs are in the North, Pogoń Szczecin on the far western edge and Jagiellonia Białystok on the far eastern one. Between them, nothing. Gdańsk is Poland's second-biggest city (~920k) and it has no top-flight club at all, because Lechia Gdańsk and Arka Gdynia went down together last season. The whole Tricity, roughly 1.5m people, is unrepresented. Every other city in Poland's top 12 by population has a club.

Meanwhile, Kraków has three. Wisła Kraków came back up after four years, Cracovia are already there, and Wieczysta Kraków were promoted for the first time in their history. Wisła and Wieczysta will actually share a ground. Wieczysta's own stadium doesn't meet top-flight licensing, so they're playing at Wisła's Stadion Miejski.

Add Katowice, Zabrze, Gliwice and Częstochowa and you get eight of the eighteen clubs packed into the southern belt, most within an hour's drive of each other.

Is this just how the promotion cycle fell this year, or is Polish football's centre of gravity permanently shifting south?

Source: https://www.stadiumsofeurope.com/

Data: club/stadium locations, capacities and 2026/27 league composition compiled from Wikipedia and Transfermarkt. Coordinates cross-checked against Wikidata (P625).

Basemap: satellite imagery © Esri - World Imagery (Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics). Country boundaries from Natural Earth (public domain).

Tool: rendered server-side in Python with Pillow, a custom map-export renderer I wrote (projection, label placement and leader lines are all custom; labels are auto-placed into left/right columns so they never overlap the markers).

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With today's World Cup match at Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium reminding everyone how useful retractable roofs can be, I wondered how common they actually are in Europe.

Surprisingly, Europe only has a relatively small number of major football stadiums with retractable roofs.

Some examples:

• Wembley Stadium (London, 90,000) – partially retractable roof

• Johan Cruyff ArenA (Amsterdam, 55,865)

• GelreDome (Arnhem, ~34,000)

• VELTINS-Arena (Gelsenkirchen, 62,271)

• Merkur Spiel-Arena (Düsseldorf, 54,600)

• Deutsche Bank Park (Frankfurt, 51,500)

• Parken Stadium (Copenhagen, ~38,000)

• Strawberry Arena (Stockholm, ~50,000)

• PGE Narodowy (Warsaw, ~58,000)

• Gazprom Arena (Saint Petersburg, ~68,000)

What stood out to me is that most of them are concentrated in Northern Europe and Germany rather than Southern Europe.

As summer temperatures continue to rise and major tournaments increasingly face heat-related concerns, do you think we'll see more retractable-roof stadiums built in Europe over the next 20 years?

Source: Wikipedia, club websites and Transfermarkt.

Tools:

- https://www.stadiumsofeurope.com/ (custom we GIS app developed by me)

- Python

- Django

https://www.gazzettadireggio.it/reggio/cronaca/2026/06/25/news/stadio-mapei-un-progetto-per-coprire-le-due-curve-1.100887658

With the recent news that Mapei is considering covering both curves at Mapei Stadium in Reggio Emilia, I became curious about something:

How many professional clubs in Italy actually own (or effectively control) their stadiums?

I mapped the stadiums that fall into one of the following categories:

🔴 Private ownership The club (or a company linked to the club) owns the stadium.

🟡 Mixed ownership / long-term control The stadium is publicly owned, jointly owned, or operated through a long-term concession, surface rights agreement (diritto di superficie) or similar arrangement that gives the club substantial control over the venue.

This is why clubs such as Monza, Bologna or Lumezzane are included despite not always being the sole legal owners of the stadium asset.

Lautaro, Malen, Thuram haven't yet scored and the group stage is almost done, what is going on?