Talk:List of European stadia by capacity

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Contents 1 capacity? 2 Gelredome 3 Sheffield United 4 Consistency 5 Would it be okay to use the Ulster flag instead of the Northern Irish flag for GAA stadiums in the North? 6 Izmir? 7 Estadio La Rosaleda (Málaga, Spain)

[edit] capacity?

is this seating capacity or standing? or what —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.136.46.232 (talk) 16:37, 4 May 2007 (UTC).

its standing capacity, although many top stadia like camp nou and wembley are all-seaters. For example, Signal-Iduna-Park has a current 80.708 Bundesliga capacity, which drops to around 60.000 when in all-seater-configuration (the sudtribune is usually only stands for about 25.000).

[edit] Gelredome

I think that there are some wrong things in the list.

Gelredome, Arnhem, the Netherlands has 32,500 places to occupy in non-concert, and they are not included in the list while the bottom 10 have got less places in their stadium. This should be corrected now!

87.195.12.169 15:52, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sheffield United

Elsewhere on Wikipedia it says that the Bramall Lane ground of Sheffield United Football Club is over 32000, but it does not appear on this list. I suspect that this list is incomplete, and a note to this effect should probably be placed at the top until someone can come up with a definitive list. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.124.16.33 (talk) 10:34, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Consistency

This article can not decide if the plural of stadium is stadia or stadiums. Personally, I prefer stadia but I will bow to whatever the accepted Wikipedia standard is. 199.203.68.2 (talk) 16:44, 31 December 2007 (UTC) Cymruisrael (talk) 16:45, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Would it be okay to use the Ulster flag instead of the Northern Irish flag for GAA stadiums in the North?

Would it be okay to use the Ulster flag instead of the Northern Irish flag for GAA stadiums in the North? Since in GAA terminology, there's no Nothern Irland, but the Province of Ulster I'd like to change the flags to the flags of Ulster as used by the GAA. Jorgenpfhartogs (talk) 10:59, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

• I would say no. The flags are to represent geographic locations, not sports organizations. Instead of linking to the GAA article, you could link to the Ulster GAA article for home teams. Patken4 (talk) 12:42, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Which is exactly why I would say yes. The geographical position is the province of Ulster and not Northern Ireland. For soccer stadiums in the North the geographical position could be Northern Ireland but there are no GAA stadiums in Northern Ireland. Jorgenpfhartogs (talk) 00:34, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

If no other objections I'll go ahead and change the flags for GAA stadiums in Ulster to the Ulster flag or Irish flag. Jorgenpfhartogs (talk) 22:15, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Izmir?

I can understand why Istanbul is in this list since that city is partly European, but Izmir is in Asia so I say it should be in a list of Asian stadiums. Jorgenpfhartogs (talk) 08:19, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

It is actually in the list of Assian stadiums as well, so are some of the Istanbul stadiums so I'll check the actual location for those and then add them to Asia and delete here or add them if in Europe. Jorgenpfhartogs (talk) 08:22, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

When creating the page I checked which side of the Bosphorous Istanbul stadiums were on and added them to Asia or Europe accordingly. Someone may have changed them since then. Willy turner (talk) 18:45, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Estadio La Rosaleda (Málaga, Spain)

According to Diario Sur ([1]), La Rosaleda has a capacity of 28,900 seats —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.108.65.118 (talk) 15:58, 23 April 2008 (UTC)