Football Stadiums of the Future - Stamford Bridge

The season is over, and it's time to look forward. So here's part one of my Football Stadiums of the Future blog.

Chelsea - Stamford Bridge 2020/2021

It kind of looks like a giant egg dicer, but I like it. This is a regeneration of Chelsea's Stamford Bridge, which means they have to knock down the 41,663 seater stadium that is standing there today and build this new 60,000 seater stadium on top of it. It's going to cost Roman Abramovich around 500 million pounds, and Chelsea would have to play three seasons at Wembley, we could be seeing the first league game here in the 2020/2021 season.

Chelsea almost sell out their tickets for their current stadium almost every match day, with this new development it gives them the chance to attract twenty thousand more fans. With a stadium this posh, I think they'll have no problem with achieving that goal.

This is how the ground will be lit up at night, hopefully on a Champions league night if Chelsea can pull their socks up by 2021. 

What will the new Stamford Bridge look like? 

Each column is made up of 264 bricks, with the architecture taking inspiration from Westminster Abbey, Glass will connect the columns giving it a strong structure, then decorative metal will line the glass giving it a silvery effect. The fans  have taken to twitter and compared the look to a rolled up slinky, but the majority seemed to approve.

What do you think of the new Stamford Bridge? Let me know in the comments section below.


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