Because soccer is a sport watched by many billions of people around the world, as you might expect stadiums are also very large. You can find very large venues on every continent.
The largest stadium today is Salt Lake Stadium in the city of Kolkata, India, which can hold as many as 120,000 people! This is the amount of quite a large city. The local teams play there, as well as the Indian national team. Next, you can find the famous Camp Nou seating 99,354 people, and the famous FC Barcelona plays matches there.
The third place on the podium is occupied by the Azadi Stadium in Tehran, which can accommodate a slightly smaller number of visitors than Camp Nou, but it is still more than 99,000.
It’s worth mentioning that right behind it is the First National Bank Stadium in Johannesburg, where the South African national team plays its matches and was built as the main arena for the 2010 World Cup. The largest stadium in North America is the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, USA, which seats 93,000 spectators, and in the case of South America, it’s the Estadio Azteca in Mexico, which can accommodate 87,000 spectators.
