The teams · beyond the area
Stadiums like San Siro
Twenty-three stadiums around the world set beside the Meazza. Nine traits are compared: football without a track, several tiers, ramps or towers, covered stands, two home clubs, public ownership, a historic site in the city, capacity over 60,000, major international events. They lie outside the area, but they show what the Meazza has of its own and what it shares with the others.
A trait is marked only if the sources of the record document it. Capacity is the figure of the operator or the club when there is one; otherwise the threshold on which all sources agree.
Schema
Nine traits, twenty-four stadiums
Filled square: the trait is there today. Grey square: it was there and is no longer. Stadiums are ordered by traits shared with San Siro.
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When they opened
Each bar runs from the opening of today’s venue to 2026. In red San Siro, from 1926.
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How many seats
Solid bar: the declared figure. Hatched bar: the threshold on which the sources agree, «over» or «about». The vertical line marks 60,000 seats.
Le schede
Stadium by stadium
Sources
Video
The yardstick of the comparison
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Nel sito
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No interpretation passed off as fact
An approximate figure stays approximate, a project stays a project until construction starts, and whatever does not add up stays out. The criteria are in Method.