Can the Champions League Generic Stadium Be Built?

In some countries, national teams have their own stadiums, the most famous example being England’s iconic stadium. Wembley Stadium. Wembley hosts both international matches and a wide range of finals within England.

Champions League The final is held in a different city every year, the last of these cities being Paris. As you may remember, Istanbul also hosted the final more than once. Each final became a separate legend.

In the scenario we have today, let’s say UEFA made a decision, inspired by the SuperBowl matches in the USA. giant, central stadium decided to build. Afterwards, they put me in charge of the project. Let’s see UEFA Champions Stadium Will we be able to solve the construction of the stadium, which I will refer to as?

First, let’s look at the location:

When we look at the Champions League intro, we see a part of the stadium. in the city We see that it is. When I started to choose a city to give the same feeling, I probably first who want the stadium for their country I need to rule out managers. Assuming that I do not stubbornly submit to bribery incentives, veiled threats, etc. a fair decision I will try to give it.

First of all, not England, because it is currently It’s not even a member of the EU and frankly there is a possibility of entry and exit issues in the future. Italy No way, because Italians are very passionate and aggressive fans. Spain It won’t happen anyway, the stadium may remain idle and they have been very dominant in the cup in recent years. Germany Anyway, if Germany wanted it to be done, it wouldn’t have been up to me, they would have done it themselves. I need a neutral, central location that can accommodate enough people and is suitable for multinational events. go away GenevaLet me close the land from , if there is space. To find out whether there is enough space, we now need to calculate the length of the stadium.

The stadium will be giant, not big!

105 meters by 68 meters We can calculate how much area the UEFA Champions Stadium, which I decided to build with a field size, will cover based on this field. I chose this measure because most teams, this size or measurements close to this size prefers.

As we see in the intro images, this stadium full 4 floors and a stadium model called the arena type, which starts right at the bottom of the field and where the seats in the stands are close to each other, stands out. At least in this respect we will have some peace of mind, but not much.

It has a field whose dimensions are 105m x 68m. Camp Nou, with the latest updates 110 thousand people will be able to host. The stadium currently has a structure ranging from 2.5 to 3 floors. Our stadium will have four flat floors. In this case, the capacity 160 to 200 thousand It should be between .

The Camp Nou area is 55,000 square meters, that’s per person 0.5 square meters It means floor space is needed. If we make our plan for 200 thousand people, the floor area we need is 110 thousand square meters.

Galatasaray squad is being established just with the money we spent on the land!

With a little search on the internet, we found out the land price per square meter in Geneva. 2120 Swiss francs We see that it is. That is 64.319 TL. When we somehow buy the expropriated lands for 2120 CHF, we have to pay 233 million 200 thousand Swiss francs. Well 7 billion 77 million 620 thousand TL. (At the current exchange rate, it is 256 million USD. The squad value of Galatasaray, the team with the highest squad value in our league, is 237 million USD.)

Is this the end of it? Of course it doesn’t end. more stadium we will build, we need mastery. We need workers, we need concrete, we need carbon fibers and plasticglasses used in aviation. We make a dream come true, it’s not easy.

If we continue to scale our stadium over Camp Nou, which has similar features; Dimensionally, our stadium is in terms of width, length and height. 1.3 times Growing. In this case, the dimensions of the stadium 325m x 286m x 62 It will be meters.

Let’s talk about the construction costs, the stadium has become a crazy project.

I will start from a scenario where, using economies of scale and politics, we managed to make the price per square meter of stadium construction coincide with the cost of an average construction in Switzerland. In reality, more or less similar figures are obtained, so there is no such problem.

First, it is necessary to calculate the area to be built. Our floor space 325m x 286m. We need to remove the playground and the security strip from this area. In other words, no construction will be done on an area of ​​125m x 88m, only the ground area will be built. Since stadiums are sloping, they do not cover the entire area to be built. 65 percent We will take it into account. If you are ready, we start.

First of all, the area to be built is 83,236 square meters will be. If the field ground is 11,000 square meters will be. If we make the base times the height times 0.65 and divide the result by 4.2 (average floor height), it gives us a total of 798 thousand 669 square meters. Our construction cost per square meter 1.812 billion Swiss francs is happening. This amount is for the rough construction of the stadium. I won’t go into items such as lighting, interior architecture, design and decoration in order not to make the article longer, but just the seats. 3-4 million francs If I say that it will be necessary to pay in the range of 500 million Swiss francs, we can see that we have to sacrifice 500 million Swiss francs. Especially when we think about landscaping.

Let’s talk about the iconic roof.

Our concern for the roof is not money, but primarily how to make the roof to find. It is very difficult to find a material that is structurally durable enough, but with enough carbon fiber and enough plexiglass football shaped dome It is possible to build. The amount of material required for this is not much at all, only enough material to cover an area of ​​10 thousand square meters will do the job. This costs us a lot, but more importantly, we can find enough suitable materials. That’s why the price of the roof “It’s fate now.” We pass by saying.

Moreover, it is incredible, but these costs are realistic costs!

According to UEFA’s intro explanation video The capacity of the stadium is 1.05 million people. So, if we compare the stadium volume and surface, we need at least 3 times the money we calculated here. In this case, the cost of the stadium, excluding the roof 12 billion USD It happens around. On the other hand, the stadium with a capacity of 1 million people also has a match experience problem; we cannot see the game played on the field. So our account we can actually watch the match by stadium.

We went crazy, if we wanted to build a melodrome stadium with a capacity of 1 million people, not upward, it will be easier to do it downwards. This stadium could be built in an old mineral deposit on any plateau. This project was also discussed with UEFA, which has not yet been able to properly install VAR cameras. but in 2100 or so It will end.