[70] The first official match involving professional players was England U21s vs Italy U21s on 24 March 2007, which finished 33. The match finished 20 to "The Three". In 1992, the World Wrestling Federation (now known as WWE) drew a sellout of 80,355 when SummerSlam was hosted at Wembley Stadium. In 6 August 2022, after two years of postponement because of the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, Irish pop band Westlife performed for the first time at the stadium with a recorded screenplay at ITV on 20 November 2022. The official record attendance for an FA Cup Final is 126,047, which was set in 1923 at the old Wembley Stadium in London . [107] In 2015, another first occurred as the first ever divisional match took place at Wembley between the American Football Conference Eastern Division's Miami Dolphins and New York Jets. The 1995 World Cup Final between England and Australia was also played at Wembley with 66,540 spectators watching Australia win 168. [59] Multiplex's ultimate bill is estimated to be over 10million. In 2014, Wembley Stadium entered into a six-year sponsorship agreement with mobile provider EE Limited, under which it provides technology and infrastructure services for the venue. The summer's final show saw former Pink Floyd bass guitarist Roger Waters play at the venue on 14 September as part of The Wall Live tour. The previous attendance record for a women's Euros match was when 68,871 fans were in the stands at Old Trafford to watch hosts England take on Austria in the opening match of the tournament earlier this month. England took the lead twenty minutes from time when Ella Toone lifted the ball over the onrushing Frohms to send the crowd into raptures. Adele completed her world tour with two concerts, dubbed "The Finale", at Wembley on 28 and 29 June 2017. On 30 October 2016, for the first time in an NFL game played outside the US, the game carried into overtime and subsequently ended in a tie (another first for both Wembley and a London Game) in a week 8 match between the Washington Redskins and the Cincinnati Bengals. [35], In the sport of rugby league, the RFL held its Challenge Cup Final at Wembley from 1929 onwards. It was also the venue for Arsenal's home Champions League matches in 199899 and 19992000. [29] All competitions and concerts planned were to be moved to suitable locations. It later received the encomium the Venue of Legends, while for many years playing at Wembley was the ultimate goal of football clubs and their players. "), There is a persistent myth that a small locomotive met with a mishap when Watkin's Folly was being demolished, or the Empire Stadium built, and was buried under what became the "sacred turf" (though in some versions it is a carriage filled with rubble). With crowds positioned right around the pitch at ground level, the number is thought to actually be as high as 300,000. . All of these pitches are larger than Wembley's, although only by a yard where Molineux is concerned (116 x 74 yards). A little closer to Wembley, almost 150,000 saw fierce rivals Scotland and England meet at Glasgow's Hampden Park in 1937. [42] The opening meeting was in 1927. Described as the world's greatest sporting arena, it was ready only four days before the "White Horse" Final in 1923. Wembley has had a long association with American football. . The stadium set the international record crowd for a rugby league game when 73,631 turned out for the 1992 Rugby League World Cup Final between Great Britain and Australia (since beaten by the 74,468 attendance for the 2013 RLWC Final at Old Trafford). The 1953 FA Cup Final between Blackpool and Bolton Wanderers was dubbed the "Matthews Final" after Blackpool's winger Stanley Matthews. If it's us v Bolton I reckon the attendance will be over 60,000 and would beat the record attendance for any Argyle game at a neutral venue. Official crowd; 126,000. a competition-record crowd a joyous night at Old Trafford. . The National Football League (NFL) held nine preseason American football games at Wembley between 1983 and 1993. and the Jacksonville Jaguars, put forward an offer to purchase Wembley Stadium from the FA. Manchester United beat Newcastle 2-0 in the Carabao Cup final and pictures of their changing room celebrations have been released. Tottenham Hotspur hosted Manchester City in a Premier League match on 29 October 2018, a day after Wembley hosted the Philadelphia Eagles and Jacksonville Jaguars. Germany Women spoiled the party and struck late on to earn a 2-1 victory over England in front of a record-breaking crowd at Wembley. Evan Ferguson's fifth goal of the season had more than 2000 Albion fans singing about a trip to Wembley after their side saw off Stoke to reach the quarter-finals of the FA Cup. (Record home attendance in English football) . The crowd of 89,874 who watched the FA Cup final between Portsmouth and Cardiff City in 2008 is the largest football attendance at the new Wembley. Richard Biffa later became Biffa Waste Services. The latter was at Wembley on Sunday as United beat Newcastle United 2-0 to lift the Carabao Cup, which may be . This left the grass turf in poor condition for the FA Cup Final a week later.[46]. One week later, rock band The Killers performed their biggest headline show at the venue on 22 June. [123] Take That played a record-breaking 8 nights at Wembley Stadium in summer 2011 on their Progress Live tour, which has become the fastest and biggest selling tour in UK history.[124]. . As of April 2016, the WWE considers this to be their fourth largest live gate in history behind only WrestleMania 32 (2016) which drew a reported 101,763, WrestleMania III (1987) which drew a reported 93,173 and WrestleMania 29 (2013) which drew 80,676 fans. As this was the last time the stadium was used for speedway racing, it remains the track record. concert, The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute Concert, Nelson Mandela: An International Tribute for a Free South Africa Concert, The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness and the NetAid charity concert. Several Gaelic football games were played in Wembley Stadium, most of them exhibition matches, most notably Kerry and Down in 1961. A huge crowd attended the first FA Cup Final to be held at Wembley Stadium (Image: Getty Images) It may come as a shock that the lowest stadium attendance on the list was at the home of football. It supports all the weight of the north roof and 60% of the weight of the retractable roof on the southern side. Two meetings were held at Wembley in 1974 promoted by Trevor Redmond. For more stories like this,check our sport page. [22] In the previous six years, he failed to earn a winner's medal against Manchester United in 1948 and Newcastle United in 1951. Such was the eagerness of fans and casual observers to attend the final at the new national stadium that vast numbers of people crammed through the 104 turnstiles into the stadium, far exceeding its official 127,000 capacity. That colossal total is comfortably eclipsed by the first ever game at the old Wembley, when kick-off was delayed by 45 minutes because some of the estimated 126,000 crowd spilled onto the pitch before Bolton Wanderers beat West Ham United 2-0 in the 1923 FA Cup final. In 2014, One Direction played to 246,000 people over three sold-out shows at Wembley on 68 June as part of their Where We Are Tour. In December 2003, the constructors of the arch, subcontractors Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company of Darlington, warned Multiplex about rising costs. The stadium's distinctive Twin Towers became its trademark and nickname. Nearly 70,000 fans witness Newcastle vs Chelsea. Diego became the first full international player to score for a visiting team when he scored in stoppage time, with the full-time result being a 11 draw. [57], Multiplex also took the original steel contractor, Cleveland Bridge, to court claiming 38million[58] compensation for costs resulting from Cleveland Bridge withdrawing from the project. [38] The Mal Meninga-led Australian team won the game 106 on the back of a Steve Renouf try in the north-east corner and Meninga's goal kicking. Before the first meeting the Wembley groundsman threatened to resign over possible damage to the hallowed turf. Let's start in the Premier League, where Sunday's figure toppled the previous highest of 76,098 for Manchester United against Blackburn at Old Trafford in March, 2007. However, after the match, every event, apart from the 1982 replay,[17] was ticketed. [95] The Ireland versus Romania match one week later improved this record again to 89,267. The then Tottenham Hotspur boss, Harry Redknapp, labelled it a "disgrace" after his side's semi-final defeat to Portsmouth. : Wembley Stadium, London, Adam Sweeting. Old Trafford's pitch dimensions are 116 x 76 yards while the Etihad pitch measures 116 x 77 yards. On 18 June 1963, Wembley hosted a heavyweight boxing match between London native boxer Henry Cooper and American rising star Muhammad Ali in front of 35,000 spectators. Access unmatched financial data, news and content in a highly-customised workflow experience on desktop, web and mobile. Even by the standards of their country's national stadium, the bout has attracted a huge attendance as WBC champion Fury fights in England for the first time since 2018, against the power-punching Londoner. Wembley hosted the FA Cup final annually, the first in 1923, which was the stadium's inaugural event, the League Cup final annually, five European Cup finals, the 1966 World Cup Final, and the final of Euro 1996. Ed Sheeran has played a bunch of dates at Wembley Stadium over the years, including an incredible run of four sold-out nights in June 2018. The stadium also hosts rugby league's Challenge Cup final and music concerts. The crowds overflowed onto the pitch as there was no room on the terraces. [43] Both were originally held at Wembley, the St Leger from 1928 until 1998 after which it moved to Wimbledon Stadium and the Trafalgar Cup from 1929 until 1998 after which it moved to Oxford Stadium. In their 11 home league games so far in 2022/23, the average attendance at Hull City's MKM Stadium is 16,899, up 27 percent from last season's average of 12,324. The attendance could beat the 80,203 . At the end of a month of headline-grabbing sport, the UEFA Women's Euro ended with a suitably thrilling final between England and Germany at a sold-out Wembley Stadium where an attendance of . However, that figure was smashed today as over 87,000 people packed into Englands national stadium to watch the final. [43] After the 2010 FA Cup Final, Chelsea captain John Terry said, "The pitch ruined the final. The initial plan for the reconstruction of Wembley Stadium was for demolition to begin before Christmas 2000, and for the new stadium to be completed some time during 2003, but this work was delayed by a succession of financial and legal difficulties. [80], The stadium, with pandemic restrictions, hosted the UEFA Euro 2020, which included all three of England's Group D, two round of 16 matches, both semi-finals, and the final. The Euro 2022 final between England and Germany has broken the attendance record for any European Championship final, after attracting a crowd of 87,192 at Wembley . [15] The stadium hosted the Gold medal matches at the 2012 Olympic Games football tournament. 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The highest ever recorded attendance involving Argyle was against Arsenal in 1932 (65,386) The London Monarchs of the World League of American Football played at the venue in 1991 and 1992. [68], The first match at the stadium was a game played behind closed doors between Multiplex and Wembley Stadium staff. Attendance 12,949 (2166 . Robbie Williams then performed four solo concerts at the stadium on 29 and 30 June, and on 2 and 5 July after previously performing with Take That at the stadium in 2011. When was the last concert at Wembley Stadium? On 19 October 2006 it was announced that the venue was now set to open in early 2007 after the dispute between the Football Association and Multiplex had finally been settled. He was able to finance this by forming the 'Wembley Stadium and Greyhound Racecourse Company' He raised the money to buy the stadium at the original price he had agreed with White, and then immediately sold it back to the company, leaving him with a healthy personal profit. The stadium has a circumference of 1km (0.62mi). at Old Trafford broke the individual . After a nervous first period of extra-time in north-west London, substitute Chloe Kelly was on hand to bundle home a winner ten minutes from time. Much of Humphry Repton's original Wembley Park landscape was transformed in 192223 during preparations for the British Empire Exhibition of 192425. The same two teams set further records of 83,889 spectators in 2014,[93] and 84,068 in 2015.[94]. How much did the old Wembley hold? A staggering 77,768 were in attendance at Wembley to watch England take on Germany. Before the new Wembley opened in 2007, smaller crowds also crammed into the former incarnation of the stadium, watching the likes of Muhammad Ali and Frank Bruno over the decades. In fact, it was the old Wembley's first ever game - the 1923 FA Cup final between Bolton and West Ham. . The stadium also features in the 2001 mockumentary film Mike Bassett: England Manager. At age 38, he was making his third and ultimately his final attempt at winning an FA Cup medal. The ex-Wham! The West Yorkshire secondary school beat Castleford High School in the Year 7 boys Carnegie Champion Schools final, which was played immediately prior to the 2007 Challenge Cup Final. . [78] Due to adjustments of the 2020 final caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, it will stage the following season's final instead. Among those who never performed well there despite their credentials include 1973 World Champion Jerzy Szczakiel (who won his title at home in Poland and two weeks later under difficult circumstances failed to score in the World Team Cup Final at Wembley), while others such as Ivan Mauger and Ole Olsen often seemed to find their best form at the stadium. [132] The three-night sellout stand was the highest-grossing engagement of the year, winning the Spice Girls the 2019 Billboard Live Music Award for Top Boxscore. The 1988 final of the Middlesex Charity Cup was also played there. Rail links are provided at Wembley Central (London Overground, Southern and London Northwestern Railway services) and Wembley Stadium railway station (Chiltern Railways services). 21. [81] On 7 July 2021, in the semi-final match at the UEFA Euro 2020 tournament, England won 21 against Denmark at Wembley, for the national team's first European Championship final ever,[82] with Italy winning the final on Sunday 11 July 2021 against England. In 1931 the famous greyhound Mick the Miller won the St Leger. Wembley was the main venue for the 1948 Summer Olympics, with Fanny Blankers-Koen and Emil Ztopek among the notable winners in athletics. 2017: Adele hits new high - Adele's concert on 28 June is attended by 98,000 fans, a stadium record for a UK music event. Official attendance was 55,700 (although all of the 60,000 tickets that were made available were sold in advance). [91] This was Castleford Academy's 4th appearance at the stadium since 2007. NHL roundup: Connor McDavid's historic multi-goal streak hits 5, NBA roundup: Suns win in Kevin Durant's debut, Reporting by Adam Millington At its peak, there were more than 3,500 construction workers on site. [118] Other acts to have performed at the stadium are The Stone Roses,[119] Adele, Rihanna, Ed Sheeran, Metallica, U2, The Killers, Green Day, Foo Fighters, Eminem, Madonna, Taylor Swift, Jeff Lynne's ELO, Beyonc, Spice Girls, Coldplay, Harry Styles, Oasis, Take That, BTS and AC/DC. [14], However, facing personal bankruptcy, White suddenly killed himself at his home, King Edward's Place, in 1927. On 20 March 2006, a steel rafter in the roof of the new development fell by .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}1+12ft (46cm), forcing 3,000 workers to evacuate the stadium and raising further doubts over the completion date which was already behind schedule. Their Aviva Premiership clash with Harlequins in 2012 was played before a crowd of 83,761, a world record for a rugby union club match. The tournament opener at Old Trafford broke the individual attendance record for the Womens Euros, with 68,871 watching England beat the Netherlands. [106] At 9:30am ET, the Detroit-Atlanta game was the earliest kick off in NFL history and gave fans a unique four game window on this day. Wales played their Five Nations and autumn international home matches at Wembley (as Twickenham Stadium would not accommodate them) while Cardiff Arms Park was being rebuilt as the Millennium Stadium in the late 1990s (a deal reciprocated for FA Cups during the construction of the new Wembley Stadium). . [50], The stadium roof rises to 52 metres (171ft) above the pitch and is supported by an arch rising 133m (436ft) above the level of the external concourse. It stood on the same site now occupied by its successor.[2]. Three years earlier, super-middleweight great Carl Froch knocked out nemesis George Groves for a second time and Froch has regularly reminded the public that 80,000 people were in attendance that night. The first game involving the full England national team was a friendly played on 1 June 2007, against Brazil. Tonight's attendance is not a record for a women's match in England which remains the crowd of 80,203 which witnessed the 2012 London Olympic final between the United States and Japan at Wembley . The first English player to score in a full-scale match was David Bentley with a free kick in the same game. Chelsea were the last winners of the cup final at the old Wembley and the first winners at the new. 95.8 Capital FM's Summertime Ball, which was previously hosted with 55,000 spectators at the Arsenal Emirates Stadium and slightly fewer in Hyde Park (as Party in the Park), was hosted at Wembley Stadium on 6 June 2010, and was headlined by Rihanna and Usher. It's probably the worst pitch we've played on all year. A short lived revival saw the Lions in the British League in the 1970 and 1971 seasons. [113], The WBA (Super) and IBF heavyweight championship fight, Anthony Joshua vs. Wladimir Klitschko, broke the attendance record on 29 April 2017, with an attendance of approximately 90,000. Record attendance: Football: 89,874 (Cardiff City vs Portsmouth, 17 May 2008) Concert: 100,000 (Ed Sheeran, June 2022 . What's the Wembley attendance record? 2019: England v Germany - England's senior women's team break the record for the highest attendance at a Lionesses' home fixture. Riders who won the World Championship at Wembley include; inaugural champion Lionel Van Praag (Australia), Jack Milne (United States), Bluey Wilkinson (Australia), Tommy Price (England), Freddie Williams (Wales), Jack Young (Australia the first two-time winner, first back-to-back winner and the first second division rider to win the title), Ronnie Moore (New Zealand), Ove Fundin (Sweden), Barry Briggs (New Zealand), Peter Craven (England), Bjrn Knutsson (Sweden), Ole Olsen (Denmark), Bruce Penhall (United States the winner of the 1981 World Final), and legendary New Zealand rider Ivan Mauger. (105 m) long by 75 yd (69 m) wide, slightly narrower than the old Wembley, as required by the UEFA stadium categories for a category four stadium, the top category. The record for a men's game was in 1964 when 79,115 fans were in attendance for the final between hosts Spain and the Soviet Union at the Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid. singer reopened the stadium with a pair of shows in June 2007. The semi-finals of the 2013 Rugby League World Cup were played at Wembley Stadium where defending champions New Zealand beat England 2018, and eventual tournament champions Australia defeated Fiji 640. The Wembley Lions returned in 1946 and operated in the top flight until the end of the 1956 season winning a number of League titles. [22] No athletics events (track and field) have taken place at the stadium; the conversion for athletics use was a condition of part of the lottery funding the stadium received, but to convert it would take weeks of work and cost millions of pounds. First known as the "British Empire Exhibition Stadium"[4] or simply "Empire Stadium", it was built by Sir Robert McAlpine[5] for the British Empire Exhibition[6] of 1924 (extended to 1925). [96] Although the 90,000 seat Wembley was the largest stadium used during the 2015 Rugby World Cup, the World Cup Final was held at the 82,000 seat Twickenham Stadium, the traditional home of the tournament's host, England's Rugby Football Union. The stadium contains 2,618 toilets, more than any other venue in the world. The match saw captain John Terry become the first England international goal scorer at the new stadium when he scored in the 68th minute. 16-year-old Mia Brookes wins gold to become Great . The final of the 1999 Challenge Cup was the last to be played at the stadium and was attended by 73,242 fans, with the annual fixture moving to other grounds (Murrayfield Stadium, Millennium Stadium and Twickenham) before returning to the new Wembley upon its completion in 2007. INCREDIBLE pic.twitter.com/rKq9mLCCYn. [36] The primary reason for the sliding roof was to avoid shading the pitch, as grass demands direct sunlight to grow effectively. In April 2010, the pitch was again criticised following the FA Cup semi-finals, during which the players found it difficult to keep their footing and the surface cut up despite the dry conditions. In March 2010, the surface was relaid for the tenth time since opening. That means the "Hello" singer will still hold on to top spot in Wembley's rankings, even if Fury vs. Whyte hits its targets on Saturday night. [70], The 1948 Olympic Marathon and the 1923 Stadium feature in the South Korean war film My Way (2011), though the marathon is clearly filmed in Riga, rather than London, and the stadium standing in for Wembley has an anachronistic electronic scoreboard.[71]. The first meeting held featured BriSCA Formula 1 Stock Cars and National Hot Rods. [55][56] Mott MacDonald issued a counter-claim for unpaid fees of 250,000. Since then, the capacity at Wembley for the fight has been expanded to 90,000 and it is thought more tickets have been released, meaning as many as 94,000 people could be there. However, Wembley's pitch is smaller than the playing surfaces at Old Trafford, the Amex Stadium and Molineux. The final's 89,874 crowd attendance remains the largest football attendance in the new Wembley's history. [14] It will stage the 2024 UEFA Champions League Final. A UEFA category four stadium, Wembley hosted the 2011 and 2013 UEFA Champions League Finals, eight games at UEFA Euro 2020 (including the final and both of the semi-finals)[13] and hosted the final of the UEFA Women's Euro 2022. The most comprehensive solution to manage all your complex and ever-expanding tax and compliance needs. 126,047 Bolton Wanderers 2-0 West Ham United The White Horse Final 28th April 1923. "[44] The stadium was then relaid with a Desso GrassMaster semi-artificial pitch, ahead of the 2010 community shield game between Chelsea and Manchester United. The new Wembley witnessed the record attendance for a live music event in the UK when pop artist Adele boomed out ballads to 98,000 people in 2017. In 2007, the cup final returned to its traditional home after the rebuilding of Wembley. Ex-England international Guppy is also the first player to win a final at both stadia (with Wycombe Wanderers and Leicester City in the old Wembley, then Stevenage Borough in the new one). [22] It featured a hat-trick by Blackpool's Stan Mortensen in his side's 43 win, with Matthews almost single-handedly turning the match around for Blackpool, who had trailed 31 to Bolton Wanderers before fighting back to win the match. The new stadium won't, though, help Tottenham break their home attendance record, which currently stands at an astonishing 85,512, which was set at Wembley a couple of years ago. The shows were attended by over 143,000 people and were the last shows for the European leg of her Reputation Stadium Tour. In addition, the Conference National (now National League) play-off final is held at Wembley since 2007, and the FA Women's Cup final since 2015. Ed Sheeran Announces Huge Headlining Show At Wembley Stadium Friday 10 July 2015 As Part Of His 'X' World Tour. [14], The electric scoreboard and the all-encircling roof, made from aluminium and translucent glass, were added in 1963.[15]. Wembley Stadium once hosted 126,047 people at the 1923 FA Cup final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham, according to official figures. Jack Petersen's defeat to Walter Neusel in 1935 was one classic held there, drawing a crowd of 60,000. [48] Phil Collins performed at Wembley, then boarded a helicopter to London Heathrow Airport and took a British Airways Concorde to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to perform at the American segment of Live Aid at JFK Stadium on the same day.[49]. The official attendance is often quoted as 126,047. It opened in 2007 on the site of the original Wembley Stadium, which was demolished from 2002 to 2003. Demolition officially began on 30 September 2002, with the Twin Towers being dismantled in December 2002. An attendance of 77,768 was recorded, which smashed the . See here for a complete list of exchanges and delays. In the first week of July 2007, two large charity concerts were held at the new Wembley stadium, the Concert for Diana, a memorial concert to commemorate ten years since the death of Princess Diana and celebrating what would have been her 46th birthday, and Live Earth, a concert hosted at Wembley as part of the Live Earth Foundation, committed to combatting climate change. Kidderminster became the first team to play at both the old and new stadium. On 24 August 2013 their Year 7 Rugby team played RGS High Wycombe in the annual schools curtain-raiser to the Challenge Cup final. At the end of the exhibition, which proved to be a financial disappointment, the site at Wembley was considered by many to be a vast 'white elephant'. On 28 October 2007, in front of 81,176 fans, the New York Giants defeated the Miami Dolphins by a score of 1310 in the first regular season NFL game ever to be played in Europe, and the first outside of North America. It was originally intended to demolish the stadium at the end of the Exhibition, but it was saved at the suggestion of Sir James Stevenson, a Scot who was chairman of the organising committee for the Empire Exhibition. The first concert at the new stadium was given by George Michael on 9 June 2007. [109] A new agreement was reached in 2022 which would see Jacksonville continue to host annual games for three years until 2024. The previous attendance record for a Euros fixture either mens or womens was set in 1964 when 79,115 spectators watching Spain against the Soviet Union at the Bernabeu in Madrid. As of Wednesday afternoon . Instead of cash, he received shares in the company, which gave him the largest individual stake in Wembley Stadium, and he subsequently became chairman. [54], In preliminary hearings the two architecture practices which worked for Multiplex on the project were ordered to allow Multiplex access to their records for them to build a case. The Jaguars' deal was extended to 2020 and they were to become the first team to host two games in London in 2020. The judge criticised both sides for allowing the case to reach court, pointing out that total costs were 22million, including 1million for photocopying. 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