The largest and most expensive stadiums of the world

The most expensive does not mean the biggest. The biggest is built in 1989 stadium. May 1, Pyongyang (North Korea), ready to take 150,000 viewers (all locations are equipped with individual seats and chairs.

Among the "stotysyachnikov" for the most part college stadiums in the U.S.. A rare exception is the stadium of Indian youth in Calcutta (120 000 seats, built v1984 year), the remarkable fact that has its own water system and the autonomous diesel generator, and the Azteca in Mexico City (105,064 seats built in 1966), who took Game Two of the World Cup. In this list were at one time, and Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium in Leningrad and the Kirov, but after a Olimpmade-80 reconstructions, both ceased to be "stotysyachnikami. Little "nedotyagivaet and famous Nou Camp. But 98,000 seats allow the stadium, where it plays itself "Barcelona", to be called the biggest in Europe.
The most expensive stadiums of the world
The new stadium on Krestovsky will be the second value in the world. The most expensive in the world today is London's Wembley Stadium that went into 1.4 billion euros. However, this figure has also become an unpleasant surprise for those who have uemblievskim project.
The original stadium in the London borough of Brent was opened in April 1923, the national team of England has traditionally played only at Wembley, but it happened here, and concerts, and playing rugby teams. In 2003, Wembley Stadium was demolished and in its place built a new stadium project by Norman Foster. He invented a 133-meter arc, which hold nearly all the construction. Work carried out an Australian construction company Multiplex and originally planned to meet at 326 million pounds. But before signing the contract for the work the price rose to 445 million, and when construction was completed, it was announced that "Multiplex operation cost of 800 million pounds, or twice as much as previously anticipated. And with the work on the stadium infrastructure cost of a billion pounds (1.4 billion euros).
Besides Wembley opened late because of the available in the course of construction dispute with the supplier of steel. There were periods when the workers were idle for a few weeks. For the Football Association of Britain, which took more than 400 million pounds to fund the project, the delay in opening the new stadium had serious consequences. Debt payments depended on the revenue that the stadium plan should start to bring in 2006. But planned for the summer of 2006, Bon Jovi concerts were canceled. The official opening had to wait until March next year.
Five of the most expensive sports arenas after Wembley are:

    * $ 1.3 billion Olympic Stadium (Montreal, Canada), built in 1976, capacity - 60 000, carried out baseball games and competitions in football.
    * $ 1.1 billion, "Madison Square Garden (New York), built in 1968, capacity - 18 200, carried out the basketball and hockey games and boxing matches and concerts.
    * $ 0.97 billion in the Stade de France (Paris, France), built in 1998 for the World Cup, the capacity of 80.000, in addition to football and rugby matches are held.
    * $ 0.93 billion, "Rogers Centre (Toronto, Canada), built in 1989, capacity - 50.000, is used for baseball and football matches.
    * $ 0.77 billion, the Emirates Stadium "(London, England), built in 2006, capacity 60,000, the home arena of Arsenal, who plays for Andrei Arshavin, also held concerts.