Wembley Stadium Facts for Kids

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Wembley Stadium
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"The Home of Football" New Wembley
UEFA
Full name	Wembley Stadium
Location	Wembley, London, England
Coordinates	51°33′21″N 0°16′47″W / 51.55583°N 0.27972°W / 51.55583; -0.27972
Owner	The Football Association
Operator	Wembley National Stadium Limited
Executive suites	166
Capacity	90,000 (Association football, rugby league, rugby union, boxing) 75,000 to 90,000 seated and 15,000 standing (concerts) 60,000 to 72,000 (athletics) 86,000 to 87,000 (UEFA capacity) 86,000 (American football)
Record attendance	Football: 89,874 (Cardiff City vs Portsmouth, 17 May 2008) Concert: 98,000 (Adele, June 2017)]]
Field size	115 by 74 yards (105 by 68 m)
Surface	Desso GrassMaster
Built	2003–2007
Opened	9 March 2007; 17 years ago (2007-03-09)
Tenants
England national football team (2007–present) Tottenham Hotspur F.C. (2017–2019; UEFA Matches 2016-2019)

Wembley Stadium is a football stadium in London, England. It was built from 2003 to 2007 in the same spot that the first Wembley Stadium was built. It holds 90,000 seats. The new stadium features an arch that was designed not to cast a shadow over the stadium while games are played and to help hold part of the roof up. The FA Cup final is played at and both FA Cup semi-finals as well. It also hosts the League Cup final and several other English cup finals. The England national football team play their home matches here.

As well as sports, the new Wembley Stadium, like the first one, is also used for concerts. Metallica, Muse, and George Michael have performed there. Also, the Concert for Diana was held there on July 1, 2007, and the London Live Earth concert was held there six days later, on July 7.

The new Wembley also hosts NFL games as part of the NFL International Series. The first NFL game there was the New York Giants and the Miami Dolphins. The Jacksonville Jaguars currently have a deal to play one home game in London from 2013 to 2020. Wembley stadium now has the rule of no bags allowed in the stadium following the example from previous NFL games. Anything bigger than an A4 sized bag will result in a 10 pounds charge to store it.

Wembley Stadium (1923)

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Wembley Stadium exterior
Wembley illuminated
The stadium in its very early stages of construction c. August 2003
Construction of the new Wembley, looking east, taken January 2006
Statue of Bobby Moore, England's 1966 FIFA World Cup winning captain, stands outside the stadium entrance looking down Wembley Way
Wembley Stadium pitch during England friendly against Germany in August 2007.
Close-up of the arch
Logo of the governing body of English football, the FA, as displayed on the exterior of Wembley Stadium
Wembley Stadium during the London 2012 Olympic Games football tournament
Fans of the England football team create the St George's Cross
Tottenham Hotspur celebrate winning the Football League Cup against Chelsea in 2008
Portsmouth fans celebrate winning the FA Cup against Cardiff City in 2008. The 89,974 attendance is the largest football attendance in the new Wembley's history.
Wembley hosted the 2013 UEFA Champions League Final between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund
Leeds and Castleford contested the 2014 Challenge Cup final.
Wembley in rugby union formation, with posts up before Saracens played Worcester Warriors in 2010.
Build up to the 2010 game between Denver Broncos and San Francisco 49ers
The stage at the Live Earth concert held at Wembley on 7 July 2007.
Elton John on piano at the Concert for Diana at Wembley on 1 July 2007, commemorating Princess Diana
Take That concert in 2009
Adele at Wembley Stadium in June 2017. Adele's concert on 28 June was attended by 98,000 fans, a stadium record for a UK music event.
A map of Wembley Stadium in relation to Olympic Way, Wembley Central, Wembley Stadium and Wembley Park stations, and the A406 North Circular Road (bottom right)
Aerial view of Wembley Stadium and its surroundings

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