and soccer in Europe-continued a push to enlarge stadiums. In 2014, two sports-namely college football in the U.S. The first successful retractable roof took shape in Toronto’s SkyDome, opening in 1989.īy the time Oriole Park at Camden Yards opened in Baltimore in 1992, the sport-specific stadium design was back in vogue, stretching across baseball, football, soccer and even the Olympics. While some teams jumped on the sport-specific design-Dodger Stadium in 1962 showed off engineering that reduced poles blocking views-other cities embraced the dome idea, but with a twist. Not to stop at domes and turf, the Astrodome also stepped up the use of luxury boxes, a trend that has since ballooned and now often leads the design discussion.īy the 1970s, though, Kansas City was ready to quash this generic trend, opening both Arrowhead Stadium and Kauffman Stadium with sport-specific designs next door to each other. Along with a completely enclosed stadium, the need for artificial turf was born. This line of thinking also created the domed stadium, first seen in 1965 when the nearly 68,000-seat Astrodome became the first in line. One of the lone still-standing examples, O.co Coliseum in Oakland, opened in 1966 and is the last remaining venue hosting both a NFL and MLB team. by the ‘50s and ‘60s where large concrete structures were built plain and abstract enough to welcome basically any event, no matter the use. But as the sizes of stadiums continued to grow, so did their use, leading us into an age in the U.S. The first 50 years of the 20th Century saw a combination of materials start to take shape in stadium construction, including wood, concrete and steel. embracing concrete bowls for football, the first 20 to 40 years of the 1900s saw a massive rise in stadium construction.Īlong with old Wembley Stadium in 1923, a towering structure in London, the introduction of the Yale Bowl in 1914, the West Coast started getting into the mix with L.A.’s Coliseum opening in 1923 and the Rose Bowl in 1922, both showing off the power of a Roman-styled bowl stadium built of concrete. With Leitch designing soccer stadium upon soccer stadium in England and plenty of colleges across the the U.S. Eventual expansions made Goodison Park the first English soccer stadium to have a four-sided stadium with two-tier stands and the first club to have a stadium with a three-tier stand. In England, where soccer was on a major rise, the first soccer-specific venue came in 1892 when Everton F.C. In the 1920s, Franklin Field enjoyed a major expansion, going to two tiers and ballooning to a capacity of over 78,000, the largest in the nation at the time. When it opened in 1895 for the Penn Relays, it offered the first scoreboard in the U.S.
The popularity of sports at the time gave fans plenty of baseball stadiums holding well over 10,000 spectators, and the first football stadium came to life in Philadelphia, when the University of Pennsylvania opened Franklin Field, the oldest stadium still operating for football games. From the start of the All England Croquet Club-now the home of Wimbledon-in 1868 to a smattering of baseball parks in the U.S., steel and concrete started to help give form to grandstands.
The late 1800s saw a rise in wooden-stand stadium construction. In Australia, stands for cricket followed suit, with the Melbourne Cricket Ground’s bleacher-style venue first opening in 1854.
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