FA reveal Wembley sell-out
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The Football Association have confirmed that the first match at the new Wembley stadium has sold out.
Within six hours of going on sale, all 60,000 tickets for the game between England Under-21s and Italy, sold.
The match is the curtain raiser for the new home of English football, but because of safety measures only two-thirds of the stadium will be filled.
"We are delighted that we are sold out for the first England game at any level at Wembley," said an FA spokesman.
"This is the largest ever under-21s crowd in world football history.
"We appreciate that there was a huge, huge volume of traffic applying for tickets when they were made available.
"Obviously it was frustrating for everyone who wanted to keep trying. It did speed up very quickly.
"I think this shows just how much the whole of England is waiting with anticipation for all the games to be held at Wembley." -
the opening should have been the FA cup final
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ppl go there is not for the match. only go there look look see see
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New stadium can only take 60k pple? i tot can take more..
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2/3 only mahOriginally posted by Gackt247:New stadium can only take 60k pple? i tot can take more.. -
can take 90000 if i m not wrong...
they take like 6-7years to build it.. -
Wembley Stadium, In 2002, the original structure was demolished and construction began on the new stadium, originally intended to open in 2006. This was later delayed until Spring 2007. The final completion date of the stadium came on 9 March 2007, when the keys to the stadium were handed over to The Football Association.
The design of the stadium is an all-seated 90,000 capacity bowl stadium protected from the elements by a sliding roof. The stadium's signature feature is a circular section lattice arch of 7 metre internal diameter with a 315 metre span, erected some 22° off true, and rising to 133 metres tall. According to "Guinness World Records 2006", the archway is the world's longest unsupported roof structure.
A "platform system" has also been designed to convert the stadium for athletics use, but its use decreases the stadium's capacity to approximately 60,000.
From the baths to the bar, here's a glimpse of what Wembley looks like -
looking at the atrium... its far from our stadium... hope we could have our own version of the wembley
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the seats make it look like OT
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Wembley seems big and beautiful... Wonder when it will happen in Singapore..
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X2.Originally posted by sand king:the seats make it look like OT
Wow.. Wenbley has face-lift and the facilities looks amazing. Singapore can only pray for the same reception when Kallang undergoes a face-lift.
p.s Unless the opening match is Singapore vs Malaysia. Butoh!
Cheers.
CK