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Football Ground Map
The latest football ground news from around the world. New stadiums, ground renovations and records - it's all here. Heard some news that you think should be featured? Drop us a line through the contact page. Want to keep up-to-date with the latest stadium news by email? Sign up to the site and join the monthly stadium newsletter.
Friday 7th April 2023
Switzerland has been chosen to host the Women's Euro 2025 tournament.
The country ran out winners against rival bids from France and Poland as well as a joint bid from Denmark/Finland/Norway/Sweden.
England will be looking to retain their crown won in 2022 in the 16 team tournament which will begin in June 2025.
8 host stadiums will be used across the country, with the host cities confirmed as:
Friday 7th April 2023
The city of Malaga has presented plans to redevelop La Rosaleda. The new plans would see capacity increase to 45,000, in an attempt to secure the city's status as a 2030 World Cup venue.
The revamp would cost an estimated €70m and would see 15,000 seats added to the current capacity with all stands covered, an underground car park and green spaces created around the stadium.
Saturday 18th March 2023
Real Betis is planning to renovate their Estadio Benito Villamarin.
The La Liga club have reached out to international design and construction companies to improve 3 of the stands at the stadium. As well as modernisation, the club will also seek to add a roof to cover all seats at the ground.
Betis have set a budget of €70m to deliver the work which is expected to start after the 2023/2024 season.
As well as modernisation, the works will also look to transform the stadium into a year-round venue focusing on leisure and entertainment activities when the team isn't playing.
Friday 10th March 2023
The latest MLS expansion side St Louis City FC has opened its new stadium.
A sell-out crowd of just under 22,500 welcomed the team to the brand new £400m CityPark Stadium and witnessed a 3-1 victory over Charlotte - an impressive addition to the opening day victory at Austin.
St Louis joined the MLS Western Conference as the 29th expansion team this season.
Monday 6th March 2023
The New Saints have broken ground on a project to build a new 800-seater stand at their Park Hall Stadium.
The new stand is expected to cost around £1m and will increase the ground's capacity from 1,000 to around 1,600. It is being built to ensure the ground meets the required standards to host UEFA competition qualifying matches from next season onwards.
TNS are currently 15 points clear at the top of the Welsh Premier League, which will see them qualify for the Champions League next season.
Wednesday 1st March 2023
Austrian Bundesliga side LASK have played the first game in their new Raiffeisen Arena.
The club beat Austria Lustenau 1-0 with a goal in the 4th minute of injury time.
The new stadium cost around €30m to build and is located in Linz - the 3rd largest city in Austria, approximately halfway between Salzburg and Vienna.
Thursday 23rd February 2023
Football Ground Map is expanding into new sports! We have rugby and cricket versions due to launch shortly and I'm looking for people to help me out with adding new stadiums and creating graphics.
Adding new stadiums involves researching the teams, grounds and leagues all around the world, finding the coordinates on Google Maps and then uploading them to the site - it's a pretty simple process, but can be fascinating researching teams and stadiums around the world.
If you're good with graphics (or you want to learn), the sites also need numerous images creating for them, including each team's crest and a header image of the home stadiums (as we have on footballgroundmap.com).
So, if you're passionate about cricket or rugby, drop me a line (or reply to this email).
Saturday 18th February 2023
League One side Forest Green Rovers have started construction of their new wooden stadium.
The new ground will have a capacity of around 5,000 and is being built next to junction 13 of the M5 motorway, around 10 miles away from the New Lawn.
The wider development will also host a number of carbon-neutral businesses and the site will generate 80% of its own power requirements.
Saturday 18th February 2023
Spanish side CD Eldense have revealed plans to build a new stadium.
The 3rd division sides have their sights set on the Primiera Liga, and a new 18,000 seater stadium is essential to that plan.
Eldense are based in the city of Elda, close to Alicante and Benidorm in the south east of the country.
Saturday 18th February 2023
New Canadian league side Vancouver FC have revealed plans to build a new 6,500 capacity stadium.
The stadium is being dubbed "the flat pack stadium" whose modular design is already being shipped in, with the aim to open in just a few months.
Vancouver FC will become the city's second major football club, after Vancouver Whitecaps who play in the MLS Western Conference at the 55,000 capacity BC Place.
Sunday 12th February 2023
The Olympic Stadium in Athens has been temporarily closed after routine safety checks found issues with the metalwork in the roof.
Panathinaikos currently use the 70,000 capacity stadium to host their European home matches.
Wednesday 1st February 2023
UEFA has moved the location of this year's UEFA Super Cup from the Russian city of Kazan to Athens in response to the war in Ukraine.
It is the latest in a long line of sporting sanctions against Russia, having been disqualified from the 2022 World Cup, thrown out of UEFA competitions and also losing the right to host last year's Champions League final, which should have been held in St Petersburg.
The match will now be played in Athens' Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, home of Olympiacos.