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  • such a lovely stadium its better than eastlands :)

  • Anyone interested in two face value tickets?

  • 100% Portuguese Europa League final in the AVIVA Stadium in Dublin Braga vs Porto !

  • Este estádio irá vergar-se perante a grandiosidade do F.C.Porto, 3º melhor clube do Mundo...

  • @andrejsviana É que nem tenhas dúvidas, amigo! :-)

  • benficaaaaa

  • @beirao2281 Benfica o que rapaz? nao tas convidado.

  • benfica vs porto in europa league final. 100% portuguese game

  • @diogotomediogo and porto will one, because porto is way better gameplaying, they're quick,good finishes and everything else, just see that porto won 5-1 to villareal!!!!

  • Benfica will be there at day 2011-05-18

  • @Nash3128 @diogotomediogo @beirao2281 hahahahahahahahaha

  • great stadium cant wait to visit it when celtic come over in the summer.

  • Down with the ugly name of AVIVA stadium it always be Lansdowne Road

    Now the irish rugby team can be called AVIVA XV rugby team and the players will be Aviva 1 to aviva 15 !

  • Lansdowne Road

  • agree with some. its too small, and looks even smaller on tv. its a shame they are trying to pay for it for it in like, a year. crazy tickets prices.

  • naxui

  • small, bad for attracting Irish rugby fans

  • @simoncowellshaircut I actually think its a perfect size. When they were in Croke Park I think the capasity was too big and the atmosphere suffered a lot. I think with a smaller stadium, closer to the action will create a much better atmosphere on match days

  • Beautiful stadium. Congratulations!

  • Fuck all u who dont like the new stadium. With your comments. What the fuck do yous all know. Its a beautiful stadium. Well up there with the best in the world

  • The new Lansdowne Road is a disaster, its too small to be a proper international stadium, for the last few years no one has been talking about this place, there has been absolutley no excitment for it, all the hype and excitment for the last few years has been for Croke park. the FAI AND IRFU are two of the biggest corrupt organisations in the country, just goes to show when the fai tried to sell the country out by giving the tv rights to Sky

  • Hahaha does anyone think this looks like a big giant glass toilet seat? I do LOL, still! i cant wait for the 4th of august the first soccer match to be played there, airtricity league XI vs Manunited, C'MON!

  • It wouldnt be a typical Irish stadium without that one side with small capacity. I kinda like it though. Less is more kind of styling to it. Like the way you'd leave a gap in something just because you can. Its Artistic at least

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  • I meant 80,000 and old bottle factory!! But u get wat I'm sayin

  • Nice arena but it should have been built bigger and better elsewhere! Up the road old nottle factory! If it was built there! The land at landsdowne would have been developed for houses,apartments,offices and we'd have a stadium up the road that hold 80,0000 and we'd be the envy of the world! Again nice stadium but it should not have been built! Thanks bertie you ruined us all

  • This great stadium is hosting the 2012 Europa league final . I`m very happy that our government invested in such a great stadium . We now have two magnificent stadiums , Croke park 80,000 + and the Aviva Stadium 50,000 + . I`m very excited and deligthed to see the building of this stadium . First match will be Ireland vs Argentina . The little stand is unusual and I like it . Typical English xD always jealous .

  • LOL at that little stand wtf is that all about? 50.000 is pretty small though, looks nice untill that little stand comes in view, not a match for wembley and millenium stadiums

  • @jaysOPINIONS Millenium stadium is amazing but wembley is a joke. Cost way too much and has a pitch a league 2 side wouldnt want to play on

  • textbook paddies, wonkey stadium ROFL.

  • anyone notice how this stadiums design appears to have been lifted from the 'Stade de le Beaujoire' used during the '98 world cup.

  • @scuffles31

    Oh dear, Beaujoire stadium MUST remain the only stadium in the world to have curves? Oops, major architectural oversight on our part. Does it upset you that there is more than one stadium with curves?

    Or just feeling a little "green" perhaps? :-)

  • @helenaZZZZirlandaise Not my point at all. I was just stating that the design they have developed is very similar. Also it looks ridiculous, just my point of view :D

  • @helenaZZZZirlandaise Oh and as for feeling 'green' im more envious of croke park.

  • Why is it that all the big stadiums in ireland have a stupid looking small stand at one of the ends how hard is it to build that stand the same as the one across from it??

  • The design incorporates both a concert venue as well as a sports stadium.

    Here's what the architects said:

    Architectural acoustic modeling, acoustic design and performance sound system design.

    Design has considered internal acoustic treatment as well as façade sound insulation for the bowl and sensitive internal spaces. Vibration transmission was also assessed for the adjoining Dart railway.

    Impressive end result considering all the parameters within which they had to work.

  • its like the emirates stadium but shitter and in the shape of a toilet

  • Nice design but looks like all these soul less corporate stadiums.

    i imagine the small end allows for an extra 10,00 extension should the demand be there or is it a planning requirment to appease the locals

  • the small stand makes it look like a toilet seat and 50,000 is way to small for a team ranked in the top 40 in the world

  • Hmm, this looks very much like estadio de futbol monterrey, same size aswell. Any reason for the smaller stand? For example in Monterrey it is like that to show "el cerro de la silla"

  • I remember at the time they were finalizing plans for the Aviva, the site on which it sits was estimated to have been worth 600 to 700 million euro at that time with a bit of intelligence we could of sold the site at the height of the property boom and built 2 new stadiums, keeping croker open we could of had a stadium in cork, enlarged thomand park and built another stadium in say galway and hosted that rumored euro champs with Scotland but this being the country that puts retards in power...

  • I agree the tiny north end looks absolutely ridiculous, croker too. I'd like to see a fully finished irish stadium not 3/4 complete. The residence have too much power thats why is looks like it was designed by a retard

  • @mickser101 They did that to so they wont block out the natural sunlight for the residents. Who should be aloud a say on who parks on their door step. Its called democracy mate!

  • Once again poor auld paddy didnt bother his arse finishing a stadium. is there a stadium in the country that we can be proud of. croke park is only great 3/4 of the way round

  • Stadium looks amazing but that tiny north stand is brutal looking. 50.000 is way to small Ireland needs a 90.000 capacity stadium.

  • They will be a scramble for the tickets

  • It looks like a giant bed pan.

  • It's looks like a giant bed pan.

  • Cant believe they made this 50 thousand, who was responsible for this decision??

  • they could have built a bigger stadium on a green field site

  • 50,000 is far too small. And the small end looks ridiculous.

  • No it doesn't.

  • that small stand doesn't look bad at all, but i wonder what r they going 2 do at the euro league final, when at least 20000 foreign ultras need 2 stay in 2 pretty identical endstands ,.one finalist won't like having its fans in the smaller one

  • It isn't a good

  • The reason for the small stand on one side is due to the house's behind could not be shaded by the stadium all day round. Planning permission was pending that they went back to the drawing board and came up with a viable solution. Therefore it is a compromise so the stadium could be built. without this compromise they stadium would never have been built.

    I for one think it was worth it..

  • could they not have built on a green field

    IE the stadium in tallaght has no houses near it they could have built a bigger ground there

  • it must have been english architects who designed dat ting cuz who else would get away wit building a big toilet seat in da middle of dublin . its da same wit croke park . why do all irish stadiums have to be missing at least 1 side of them ,its rediculous, now we look like egits, again

  • mkjhagfv. You are the "egit", as you put it! What kind of language are you typing here? It's not English!

  • Can we please not turn this into another English-Irish race war. I'm really getting sick of it.

  • I agree - it is embarrassing and the people who do this are leaving themselves and the country down!!!

  • why has it got a tiny stand on one side?? would look much better if it was symmetrical like emirates stadium

  • the stadium looks like a toilet seat lets hope ireland are not shit in

  • I've visited the fine old Landsdowne Road on one of my six trips to Ireland. I love Dublin, I love Ireland. Greetings from Portugal. Slán leat

  • They seriously need more than 50000 seats :( and with that toilet shaped design, it looks like they could easyly have topped 65k seats or more!

    Whats the thinking behind this?

  • its good that thay replaced the old stadium with a sleek more modern stadium it looks a bit like a olyimpic stadium the avia insurance company is paying the government 55million for ten years just to call it the avia stadium

  • Its a good football ground,to small for rugby.

  • for rugby there is croke park

  • yes but it is a rugby ground(origionally owned 4 rugby)

  • The shot starting at 1:25 makes the thing look like a giant toilet seat in the middle of Dublin. Must have been designed by a bunch of Euro-Fags.

  • It looks a great stadium. The 50,000 capacity is probably adequate enough for football internationals but not so for rugby. I can see the big rugby games being played at Croke Park where an extra 32,500 will be able to view. It will be interesting to see what outcome is decided.

    Looking forward to the grand opening of this superb arena.

  • It will be open in April of 2010. I cannot wait. Sick and tired of GAA bogball supporters criticizing rugby supporters. Croke Park is not good for rugby - the GAA bogball pitch is far too big, and if you're seated up in the rafters, you need binoculars to see the match.

  • types of Irish stadium

    3big stand and 1 little stand

  • the one end with the small stand looks silly

  • @captaincabs It was built like that because of the DART station behind it. They couldn't of made it any bigger without gettin rid of the station

  • @captaincabs its fail alright, typical fail Irish planning .... sigh

  • @captaincabs it couldnt be helped. it was to allow sunlight through to the residential area behind it. i was in it on saturday. fabulous stadium

  • when is it open ?

  • Its a pity they had to drop one of the stands for the residents and no big tv screens either but still looks amazing i think!

  • 50,000 seats is way too small

  • I havent seen Croker filled once when Ireland have played a qualifier there, 50 000 is fine.

    I'd rather have a stadium filled to capacity than a bigger one with large swathes of empty seats.

  • Its a rugby stadium, 50,000 is not fine.

  • It's a rugby/soccer stadium. From a football point of view 50,000 is perfect.

  • @HandJobFilms May retain its intamacy tho, have you seen the state of Wembley at england games. Empty seats all over the shops where the corporate fuckers should be

  • @HandJobFilms the stadium is located in a residential area meaning they only had the same amount of space as the last stadium to build on....of course the FAI and IRFU would have liked a bigger stadium especially because the support of Irish rugby and football is so great an 80,000 seater would easily have been filled for every match but it just is not possible.

  • @HandJobFilms The residents had to be considered! This is also the reason for the small stand at one end...a bigger one would have resulted in houses being blocked of light!People keep asking why they didnt just change location but not only would that have cost an awful lot of money but Landsdowne Road is steeped in history and the location, being in the center of Dublin, results in an awesome atmosphere throughout the city on match days....a unique feature of matches in Dublin...

  • @HandJobFilms It is when you consider how many people from dublin alone will go to the statium. then all the people from overseas and other counties. Another thing that was done wrong in this country of ours.

  • The ground is gonna have all the facilities like the bars and restaurants which is good but having no north end will make it look shabby, unfinished and a crap design just like croker one day both grounds will have to be turned 90 degrees to have full stands on every side not the north-end-itis which plagues the hill16 and havelock square ends

  • It looks like the emirates stadium

  • it does look a bit like croker 3 big stands and then on small one

  • Think the north end looks daft!! Were they tryin to copy Croker?? Still looks unfinished!

  • no its lik dat cz neighbours beside it wanted sunlight n if it had a big stand it wud hv blockd out sunlight

  • probably the same in croke park as well. The stadium looks amazing. Can't wait for it to be finished.

  • its still lansdowne road to the real fans! how i miss the wind & rain of the north stand on miserable november nights!

  • ah ye wembley doesnt compare to this baby

  • Nice Stadium - DISGRACEFUL name. Shame they couldn't think of one person to name it after - sold out to a company instead.

  • it's real a shame the design of this ground ,

    why is there no stand at one end ???

    THE FAI SHOULD HAVE BUILT THERE OWN GROUND

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