Why Are Italian Football Stadiums So Bad?



Whilst the Premier League, the Bundesliga, and almost every other top league is full of innovative, full, and either recently built or renovated stadiums, Italian football stadiums look like they were built WWII – in most cases, because they actually were.

Few Italian clubs even own their own stadiums, and the consequence is often high rents, poor quality facilities, and revenue that is dwarfed by their European peers, thwarting their ability to compete.

In this video, HITC Sevens takes a look at the role that stadiums have played in the demise of Italian football since the 1990s, why Italian football stadiums are so bad, and why even top Serie A clubs are struggling to come up with any solutions.

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  3. Because Italy still has real Football stadiums, it only attracts real football fans, multifunctional events-stadium attracts a different load of people, contributing with money but not with atmosphere, my Dutch club Feyenoord is at a crossroads, still having an "old fashioned" Football stadium but with plans to build a new stadium with all kinds of non-football related accessories……..although every fan knows that a new stadium will bring loads of new ways for revenue, , they are scared shitless that it will become the same as what Ajax did with their stadium in the 90's, with 13 in a dozen fast food restaurants, terrible atmosphere and seating only contributing to as much as you can cram in there, without having any attention to the overview.

    Italy, don't change too much, although some form of modernizing might be necessary, let moneyball fuck off where it came from, arab takeovers, a mcdonalds and a roof will not contribute in any form to your atmosphere.

  4. Same Italy with all this still could beat us at the last Euros and played us off the park despite the penalties, and the same italy that in it's worse scandal ever wins the world cup! Given that international football is the highest level, regardless of what the globalist media began to push around 1999 onwards, thanks feck that lie is finished now finally, that we'd all rather see Man U or Liverpool or Arsenal etc win the league than England win a World Cup "according to polls"hmm I'd rather have won the Euros and a World Cup than have a fantastic league of foreigners, whilst waiting for it to come home, any time. At the least the Italians for all there flaws which are legion, have something called self respect which is more than can be said for those who govern the English game who's self respect, in many ways begins and ends at the avarice and Mammon worship of their own bulging pockets. It may be a brilliant commercial venture, and right old success, however, it feels forced, false, and fake, unlike Gareth's team which has something groundingly authentic and admirable about it

  11. One example of another option is what happened to La Real’s (Real Sociedad) Anoeta. It used to be an old outdate stadium with running tracks and terrible views. Now Anoeta is a state of the art facility that stands where the previous one also was. There are solutions to modernize clubs facilities in more than one way.

  15. How about mentioning the big session that hit Italy in the 90's! Also bragging about the Emirates stadium without releasing from where the money came to build it! for sure not from England! also, where would the Premier League be without the Middle Eastern rich oil and natural gas countries & Russia be right now?

  23. Tbh the English model should be banned by UEFA, it's deeply immoral on several levels, these states are committing horrible atrocities to fund millionaire footballers in England. Qatar abuses migrant workers and steals from their own people the oil money that was supposed to go to improving their conditions, redirecting it to fund foreign football clubs on the personal whim of a random prince.
    It's as if the UK struck oil all of the sudden and King Charles decided to use that money on a personal project of Prince Andrew's to fund an NFL team in America. People would lose their minds in Britain. And yet we're ok when this happens to Qataris

  27. What a load of tripe. Italian stadiums have character and atmosphere, 2 vital elements of football which are non-existent in the post Taylor-report stadiums in England. The grounds here used to be fantastic but are now dominated by identi-kit soul-less bowls modelled on Old Trafford when it was first all-seated. It's interesting that this video focuses on revenue generated by stadiums rather than the quality of the experience of being in them. Football here was hijacked by profiteers and is a shadow of it's former self. Success is now about revenue rather than passion and this is a great loss for the normal person who used to have their local club as the bedrock of their life but now can't afford to go because their stadium has been stolen to generate income for ruthless, faceless owners. Give your head a wobble and make a decent video with some understanding and nuance. Must do better.

  28. in italia sono finiti i soldi , gli stadi fanno schifo , sono vecchi e cadono a pezzi , noi non abbiamo gli sceicchi che investono negli stadi , nei giocatori pagandoli con milioni di euro , tra la serie A è la premier league o la liga spagnola non c'è paragone , noi siamo piu' poveri , io tifo per la juve ,però non vedo piu' una partita da anni , adesso c'è il campionato Arabo ci rendiamo conto , giocatori come Ronaldo che ha 38 anni viene pagato 30 milioni di euro all' anno ….il calcio per me è finito ,parlo in italia dagli anni 80 90 quando c'erano giocatori come Platini , Gullit , van basten e Raykard Maradona e molti altri

  45. The biggest issue in Italian football, beside stadiums, it's its total lack of credibility. Always the same teams, a team in particular, have been cheating and keep cheating. Rules do not exist for somebody and every year you begin already knowing who is going to win. The federation and the league are accomplices. It's pretty disgusting. Napoli was one of the rare nice exceptions this year, but after 20 years of stadium I'm completely sick of this circus. I need some credibility, referees are sold and the frustration is overwhelming

  47. Italian football is a paridigm of demise of european footbal. There's a lot wrong assumptions you make here. Destruction of football in most of europe is pretty complex matter, but, one could point its finger to premier league. Its like corporate capitalism. Big corpo supermarket chain comes to your neighborhood, opens grand store where you can buy everything, then with the might of billions of corporate money dumps prices, and then mom and pop shops cant compete. After that corporate chain can do whatever the fuck it wants. But football becomes boring. When i think about it, i guess i've lost interest in football at the same time as italians stopped being relevant ( not just the italians, but this video is about them). I guess it's boring always watching 5 or 6 clubs competing. So, fuck modern football!
    P.S. I'm not even Italian

  48. i was stunned when i saw Fiorentinas stadium. it looks like Real Madrids training field. and Fiorentina is not some B tier team, that club has history.

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