Ataturk Olympic Stadium Size report

The Turkish people have their traces in the history of football. Football fever in Turkey will not end easily, and everyone in this country is passionate about the sport. Ataturk Olympic Stadium is the largest stadium in Turkey, located west of Istanbul. It is a full-seat stadium with athletics tracks.

Over the years, Turkey has produced many talented players who dominate football development locally and globally. Turkish football clubs are also known for their loyal and ardent fans. These fanatics want the best for their club and do what they can for them. This love for the club has resulted in high support and an increased success rate.

In order to successfully bid for the 2008 Olympic Games, Turkey began to build a stadium in the west of Istanbul in 1999, and the stadium was completed in 2002; it was named Ataturk Olympic Stadium to commemorate the father of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal. Ataturk. On July 31, the stadium officially opened. In 2004, it was rated as a five-star football stadium by UEFA and can host the finals of UEFA competitions.

Ataturk Olympic Stadium Size and Structure

Ataturk Olympic Stadium, named after the founder and first president of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, is the largest stadium in Turkey. The Ataturk Olympic Stadium was built in 2002 and can accommodate nearly 80,000 people. Even though it was originally built to host the 2008 Olympics, Turkey lost its bid to host the event, and the Games were held in Beijing, China. Now, the Ataturk Olympic Stadium is the home ground of the Turkish national football team. In 2006, the stadium became the home ground of the Istanbul Football Club. In 2014, Istanbul moved its home stadium to the newly built Fatih Trim Stadium.

The new stadium has an entire lower tier sunken into the ground, and only the west and east stand to rise. Partial cover (48,500 seats covered) is particularly distinctive in the west part, where two towers support the vast roof. The cross-section of the roof resembles the bridges over Bosporus, while an aerial view shows the crescent shape of the roof, a key symbol for both Turkey and Islam overall.

Ataturk Olympic Stadium Capacity

Ataturk Olympic Stadium is the biggest project of the Olympic Park to be built in a space of 584 hectares. Because of the huge size and not low cost, criticism came in the following years. The biggest reason for the criticism is that the lower tier is very flat and distant from the pitch (25-40 meters from the first row), making sightlines very poor for football matches. The stadium's original capacity was 80,597 people, and some seats that blocked the view were later removed. As a result, the stadium's capacity dropped to 75,145. The pitch size is standard 105 x 68 meters.

Final Words

With the support of the Turkish people, many high-quality football stadiums are constantly rising in Turkey. Turkey's less densely populated cities also got their share of building stadiums. Even though they are not home to big football clubs like Istanbul, cities like Konya, Samsun, Kesari, and Antalya have impressive football pitches. Ataturk Olympic Stadium hosts many important matches. The memorable 2005 UEFA Champions League final match between Liverpool F.C. and A.C Milan was held in this stadium. In the end, Liverpool defeated AC Milan 3-2 and won the championship trophy for the fifth time.