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Largest stadium in Europe

Wembley Stadium is Europe's largest at 90,000. Twenty-four grounds ranked by the capacity their owner or governing body currently publishes, down to Celtic Park's 60,395 — and Spotify Camp Nou at 62,652 rather than the 105,000 most lists still print, because that is what it holds during the rebuild.

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The full ranking of Europe's largest stadiums

Almost every published ranking still puts Camp Nou first on 105,000 — a target for 2027. Barcelona's own statement gives 62,652 after the Phase 1C licence of March 2026, yet the club's facility page still says 99,354 and calls the ground Europe's largest. That stale page is probably why so many lists repeat it. This ranks Europe's largest stadiums, not its largest football grounds — Croke Park hosts Gaelic games — and reads the same whether you search football stadiums or soccer stadiums. Six of the twenty-four carry more than one official figure, San Siro because the two clubs sharing it disagree.

The 24 largest stadiums in Europe by capacity
Stadium Club City Country Capacity
Wembley Stadium England national football team London England 90,000
Croke Park Gaelic Athletic Association Dublin Ireland 82,300 or 82,006 differs
Allianz Stadium England national rugby union team London England 82,000
Signal Iduna Park Borussia Dortmund Dortmund Germany 81,365
Luzhniki Stadium Russia national football team Moscow Russia 81,000
Stade de France France national football and rugby teams Saint-Denis France 80,000
Estadio Santiago Bernabéu Real Madrid Madrid Spain 83,186 or 78,297 or around 80,000 differs
San Siro AC Milan and Inter Milan Milan Italy 80,018 or 75,817 differs
Atatürk Olympic Stadium Turkey national football team Istanbul Turkey 75,145
Allianz Arena Bayern Munich Munich Germany 75,024
Old Trafford Manchester United Manchester England 74,233
Principality Stadium Wales national rugby union team Cardiff Wales 73,931
Olympiastadion Berlin Hertha BSC Berlin Germany 73,856 differs
Stadio Olimpico AS Roma and Lazio Rome Italy 68,530
Estádio da Luz Benfica Lisbon Portugal 68,100
Puskás Aréna Hungary national football team Budapest Hungary 67,155
Murrayfield Scotland national rugby union team Edinburgh Scotland 67,144 differs
Spotify Camp Nou FC Barcelona Barcelona Spain 62,652
London Stadium West Ham United London England 62,500
Veltins-Arena Schalke 04 Gelsenkirchen Germany 62,278
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium Tottenham Hotspur London England 62,850 differs
Anfield Liverpool Liverpool England 61,276
Emirates Stadium Arsenal London England 60,704
Celtic Park Celtic Glasgow Scotland 60,395
6 grounds where sources disagree
Croke Park
The GAA contradict themselves inside one document. Their 2025 annual congress report gives 82,300 in its text and 82,006 under the heading Overall Capacity, 294 apart, and reconciles the two nowhere. No reason is published, so none is recorded here: the terraces, media positions and accessible platforms are all available explanations and all of them would be this site's invention rather than the GAA's statement. GAA, 2025 annual congress report states 82,300 (stated in the report's text). GAA, 2025 annual congress report states 82,006 (stated under the heading Overall Capacity in the same document).
Estadio Santiago Bernabéu
Real Madrid has never published a post-renovation capacity, so every figure in circulation comes from somebody else. That one of the world's most famous stadiums declines to state its own size is the story, and no competitor page tells it. Most widely cited, but not by Real Madrid states 83,186. StadiumDB, from a published analysis of attendance data states 78,297. Florentino Pérez, Real Madrid president states around 80,000 (describing the legal limit as 80,000 spectators, give or take a thousand).
San Siro
The two clubs that share the ground publish different capacities. Both are resident tenants and both are primary sources, so neither figure leads. AC Milan states 80,018 (after works to bring the stadium up to UEFA standards). FC Internazionale Milano states 75,817.
Olympiastadion Berlin
The club contradicts itself across its own pages. Both figures are official Hertha BSC statements made at different times; the current stadium page should win, but the gap is worth showing. Hertha BSC current stadium page states 73,856. Hertha BSC states 74,475 (a 2021 club statement).
Murrayfield
Scottish Rugby have published two figures fourteen seats apart. Only one of them can still be found: 67,144 appears on two live Scottish Rugby pages, one of which explains it as the capacity reached with the corners filled in. 67,130 cannot be located on any live page. Concert capacity is described separately as over 65,000. Scottish Rugby states 67,144 (the capacity reached with the corners all filled in, after the 1994 West Stand). Scottish Rugby event information states 67,130 (last seen on scottishrugby.org/murrayfield-stadium/, which no longer resolves; not found on any live Scottish Rugby page as of 27 August 2026).
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
The club's stadium page and the Premier League publish different figures for the same season. Tottenham Hotspur Football Club states 62,850. Premier League states 62,062.
24 sources, last checked 26 August 2026

Allianz Arena, accepted · Arsenal Football Club, accepted · AS Roma, accepted · Atatürk Olympic Stadium, accepted · Borussia Dortmund, accepted · Celtic plc Annual Report 2024, accepted · Croke Park, accepted · FC Barcelona, accepted · FC Internazionale Milano, accepted · FC Schalke 04, accepted · Hertha BSC, verified · Liverpool Football Club, accepted · Luzhniki Olympic Complex, accepted · Manchester United plc, Form 20-F 2025, accepted · Principality Stadium, facts and figures, accepted · Puskás Aréna, accepted · Real Madrid, verified · Rugby Football Union, accepted · Scottish Rugby, verified · SL Benfica, accepted · Stade de France, accepted · Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, accepted · Wembley Stadium, stats and facts, accepted · West Ham United Football Club, accepted

Ibrox is absent because Rangers publish no current figure: their material says capacity will be “in excess of 51,500” once works complete, and that a 2024/25 seating project produced a “net-capacity increase of almost 600”. Neither is a number this page can rank. At roughly 51,700 it would fall outside the top 25 in any case.

Which are the biggest indoor arenas in Europe?

Indoor arenas are a different category and are ranked separately here, because a roofed venue with retractable seating has no fixed capacity in the way a stadium does. The figures below are maximum configured capacity for a concert or a boxing bill, which always exceeds the basketball or ice hockey configuration — the Ziggo Dome holds around 17,000 for music and closer to 15,000 for sport. Arena capacities also shift with stage position, so treat them as an upper bound rather than a fixed number. Standing-only configurations are quoted for a few venues and are excluded here.

The largest indoor arenas in Europe by maximum configured capacity
Stadium City Country Capacity
Štark Arena Belgrade Serbia 25,000
Ülker Sports Arena Istanbul Turkey 22,500
Tauron Arena Kraków Kraków Poland 22,000
Accor Arena Paris France 20,300
Lanxess Arena Cologne Germany 20,000
The O2 Arena London England 20,000
Palau Sant Jordi Barcelona Spain 17,960
Ziggo Dome Amsterdam Netherlands 17,000

Source

UEFA (placeholder — unverified), accepted

The best stadiums in Europe, not just the biggest

Size and quality are not the same thing, so this shortlist uses three stated criteria: atmosphere, meaning sustained crowd noise and a designated standing or singing area; architecture, meaning a structure worth looking at rather than a generic bowl; and history, meaning finals, records or a continuous tenancy of a century or more. Judged that way, Signal Iduna Park, Anfield and the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona rank above several larger grounds. The criteria are arguable, but they are stated, which an unargued list never is.

How do European capacities compare to the rest of the world?

Europe's largest ground would place around fifteenth on a global list. India's Narendra Modi Stadium seats about 132,000, North Korea's Rungrado 1st of May Stadium roughly 114,000, and two American college venues — Michigan Stadium and Beaver Stadium — each exceed 105,000 without hosting a professional team. Europe's constraint is urban rather than financial: most of these grounds sit inside dense cities where expansion means buying housing, which is why the continent's ceiling has stayed near 100,000 for decades. The gap narrows only where an association builds new rather than expanding.

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Which of these is the largest stadium in Europe?

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Wembley Stadium. Camp Nou is the usual answer and the usual mistake: it is operating at 62,652 during the rebuild, which puts Barcelona 18th on this table rather than first.

Wembley Stadium, stats and facts, read — source

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