Biggest stadium ever? Artist shows what a 1,000,000-seater arena would look like | OneFootball

Camp Nou is the largest stadium in Europe with more than 99,000 fans able to sit down and watch Barcelona in action amongst one of the most remarkable sporting cauldrons around.

In second place, Wembley Stadium’s 91,000 seats drip with iconic status as the self-proclaimed home of football where the English national team plays beneath the famous arch.

And further afield, stadiums in the United States of America, India and even North Korea boast official capacities spilling over the 100,000 mark in what must make for a truly breath-taking spectacle.

Gargantuan stadiums

Besides, while the saying goes that ‘size doesn’t matter’, there’s no denying that climbing the steps out of the concourse and into a stadium of that stature is quite the experience.

Yes, you can drum up an incredible atmosphere in a 20,000 seater and yes, larger arenas do run the risk of being soulless, but often the feat of engineering alone can really take you aback.

It doesn’t bear thinking about how much time and effort from outrageously intelligent human beings went into building mega structures like, say, the stunning new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Any bigger?

And doesn’t it make the Lego-building, big-dreaming and crazy-thinking child inside of you imagine what would happen if someone genuinely decided to break the world record for the largest stadium capacity?

Now, we would self-consciously then say that we might be alone in that thought, but actually, we know we’re not because one artist took that thought exercise to the extreme.

That’s because images have gone viral on social media this week that show a model of what a stadium with a capacity for one million fans would actually look like. Yes, you read that right.

What a 1,000,000-seater looks like

According to ESPN, the remarkable snaps that did the rounds on Twitter depicted the brainchild of American artist Paul Pfeiffer, who illustrated the gargantuan size required to house that many people.

And although the model isn’t actually brand new – Marca reported on it back in 2020 – it has nevertheless captured the imagination of supporters in frankly looking like something out of a science-fiction film.

So, be sure to picture how big you think a one-million-capacity stadium would look like in your head and then double that… and double it again as you check out Pfeiffer’s jaw-dropping model down below:

Go on, somebody build it for the banter.

Somebody build it!

Now, truth be told, we’re not entirely sure that the fan experience at the world-record stadium would be all that good because the pitch frankly looks minuscule from what must be Row ZZZZZZ.

It looks uncannily like Camp Nou if somebody selected the outermost ring and just selected copy and paste until the back row was touching the clouds.

As many people have said in the comments, you’d probably be better off watching the game on the television with the away end at St. James’ Park made to look as though it’s pitch-side by comparison.

But as a thought experiment, there’s no denying that it’s a great bit of fun because we’ve probably all wondered why one top club doesn’t just go ‘bugger it’ and decides to build the biggest arena in the world.

On the off chance that they do, though, we’d stomach the three-day ascent up to the press box if it meant that we got to see the one-million-seater with our own eyes. We’ll even chuck in a tenner.