The New Wembley

The New Wembley

A Few Facts and Figures.• With 90,000 seats the new Wembleywill be the largest football stadium inthe world with every seat under cover.There will be NO obstructed views.• The arch is 133 metres above the levelof the external concourse.• The stadium roof rises to 52 metresabove the pitch. This compares to the35 metres tall Twin Towers of the oldstadium.• The new Wembley has a circumferenceof 1 km.• The London Eye could fit between thetop of the arch and the pitch.• The new roof will be over 11 acres.Four acres are moveable• The rows of seating, if placed end toend, would stretch 54 kilometres• 4,000 separate piles will form thefoundations of the new stadium.• There will be 35 miles of heavy-dutypower cables in the stadium• 90,000m3 of concrete and 23,000tonnes of steel will be used in theconstruction of the new stadium.• The roof alone will weigh almost 7,000tonnes.• The new pitch will be 4 metres lowerthan the previous pitch.• Each of the two giant screens in newstadium is the size of 600 domestictelevision sets.• The new Wembley encloses 4,000,000m3 (cubic metres) inside its walls andunder its roof.• The total length of the escalators willbe the same as a 400 metre runningtrack.• There will be 2,618 toilets - whichWNSL estimate is more than anyother stadium in the world.• There is more leg room in EVERYseat in the new Wembley Stadium thanthere was in the Royal Box of the oldstadium.

• The construction presented a number ofchallenges. No stadium has ever beenbuilt this way, so architects and engineershad to use complex computer models topredict how the structure would behaveif built in certain ways.• Models of the stadium were put intowind tunnels to help predict how theroof in particular would behave duringhigh winds.• Given the special history of the previousWembley Stadium, the designers had topay particular attention to theatmosphere of the stadium, including theway it will sound with a full crowdcheering. Again, computers were used tosimulate the acoustics of the new stadiumbefore the design was agreed upon.Challenges