Largest Sports Venues in the Whole World
Sports betting is not only about stakes, calculations, and money. It’s also about the thrill of the competition, rooting for participants, and the spectacle. Any soccer fan or even betting online football enthusiast will affirm that the atmosphere of the game and even an outcome may largely depend on the venue. Great sporting arenas are not only the pride of a particular club but also iconic landmarks of the countries. When asked what is the largest sports venue in the world, everyone will probably recall first of all the Maracana in Brazil or begin to recite Europe’s and America’s most famous sporting venues that are on everyone’s lips. However, this is not really the case…
So, let’s take a glance at the best sporting venues in the world that impress with their sizes and spectacular performances on their fields.
Motera
With a capacity of 132,000 and an overall field area of 180 yards x 150 yards, it is recognized as the world’s largest sports venue. Ahmedabad, India is home to this huge cricket playing field, which is the main site for Test, ODI, and T20I cricket games.
Rungrado May Day
This multi-purpose ‘coliseum’ is located on Rungra Island, in North Korea. With a total area of 207,000 square meters, it can host 114,000 people. Its construction was confined to the 13th World Festival of Youth and Students. The peculiarity of the building is 16 arches making a ring, so the stadium is designed in the shape of a magnolia flower. The complex is used for home matchups of the DPRK national club, but its primary use is hosting the Arirang Festival.
Michigan (The Big House)
The third rank goes to Michigan in Ann Arbor. This sports center is the biggest (107,601 seats) in the United States and the biggest among arenas designed for American soccer. Michigan Wolverines, the local club that represents the University of Michigan runs its home matchups here. The Big House is also the center of American National Lacrosse and Field Hockey tournaments. It is the Big House that has witnessed the highest attendance of a hockey match in the world.
Beaver
Located in Pennsylvania, the USA, it is the home playing field of the Penn State Nittany Lions football team. The ground is the second biggest in the USA. Constructed in 1960, it has been upgraded several times, and now it has a capacity of 106,572 viewers.
The name ‘Beaver’, it bears noting, has nothing in common with the beaver animal. The eponym here is James Addams Beaver, who was a president of the State Board of Trustees and Governor of Pennsylvania.
Estadio Azteca
This Mexican multi-purpose playing field ranks among the biggest sporting venues in South America. As of today, it is ready to welcome 105,064 fans ‘on board’. Estadio Azteca has seen a large number of legendary moments in the history of sports. For instance, here, Diego Armando Maradona scored that well-known ‘Hand of God’ goal, which is considered the best one in the twentieth century. Azteca is a home field of the Mexico National Football Team and Mexican professional football club ‘América’.
Neyland
The 6th rating position goes to the American Neyland, which was constructed in 1921 and initially had a capacity of only 3200 seats. But as of today, it can hold 102,455 fans. The arena is situated in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Neyland is home to the American soccer club, the Tennessee Volunteers.
Ohio
Another America’s giant is in the capital of Ohio – Columbus. Initially designed for 66,000 spectators, it was later rebuilt and enlarged. Thus, currently, it can welcome around 102,329 fans. The significant disadvantage of this venue is the absence of artificial lighting at night, as a consequence, the matchups of the Ohio State Buckeyes soccer club take place exclusively in the daytime.
Bukit Jalil
Malaysia can also brag about great sporting complexes! Bukit Jalil, with a capacity of 100,200 seats, was constructed to hold the XVI Commonwealth Games in 1998. Subsequently, it became the sports center for the Malay national soccer team matchups and the central venue for the domestic soccer championship of the country.
Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG)
Also known as ‘The G’, it’s the largest sports field on the continent of Australia. The MCG is able to welcome over 100,000 viewers. Apart from Australia’s most popular sporting game, cricket, ‘The G’ holds Australian Football League games. The Ground was constructed in the middle of the XIX century, but in the XX century, it had been rebuilt and redesigned several times. Over its history, ‘The G’ became the center of the Summer Olympic Games (in 1956 and 2000), the Commonwealth Games (in 2006), Rugby Union, Rugby League, and FIFA World Cup qualifiers.
Camp Nou
The greatest sporting stadium in Spain, Camp Nou, is situated in the capital of Catalonia – Barcelona. It hosts home matches of FC Barcelona. Being the most spacious complex in the Old World, it can hold more than 99,000 people. During its history (starting from 1957), the building hosted the Olympic Games (in 1992) and the soccer World Cup (in 1982).
Arthur Ashe
This is the main site of one of the main events in tennis betting – the US Open. Situated in New York, in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, it holds over 23,200 fans. The complex is named after the famous former American professional tennis player who won three Grand Slam singles titles.
The enormous size of the building does not prevent you from watching matches comfortably – it is designed in such a way so that you can see the ball and all the players’ actions even from the upper tiers.
