World Cup Venues Seating Capacities

February 24th, 2006 | by: WC Bob |

Here is a bit of trivia for you. In the history of the World Cup, which host country had the largest average attendance per match?

Give up?

The answer is surprisingly the United States where an average of more than 68,000 fans took in the games. How’s that for a nation that supposedly doesn’t love soccer!

That record won’t be touched in Germany where the stadium seating capacities are much smaller than in the States. Take a look at the number of people each venue can hold and you can see why World Cup tickets are in such demand.

Berlin 66,021
Dortmund 60,285
Frankfurt 43,324
Gelsenkirchen 48,426
Hamburg 45,442
Hanover 39,297
Kaiserslautern 39,820
Cologne 40,590
Leipzig 38,898
Munich 59,416
Nuremburg 36,898
Stuttgart 47,757

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Lyle

What other country has larger stadiums than the US?

NOBODY!

English football grounds couldn’t hold that many people.

Germany, in my humble opinion, is probably the second best place in the world, after England to host a world cup. Their infrastructure is better than England’s, but England’s stadiums bring the folk right up to the pitch, whereas in Germany and other places there is usually a wall separating people from the field.
Queso

Lets be fair though. How many of those people were Americans?
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More trivia: The legendary stadium of ‘Maracanã’ held an audience of approximately 200,000 people in Rio de Janeiro at the Brazilian World Cup (1950), a record for a football match that remains unbeaten till this day.

Of course it was a very sad day to us and I thank God I wans’t born yet to experience that shocking defeat to Uruguay.