£1bn Structure: The New Tottenham Hotspur Stadium - London's largest football club Home
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The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is located in North London, England. It is a fixed-roof outdoor Stadium that serves as home to English side Tottenham Hotspur FC.
The Stadium has a capacity of 62,062 which makes it one of the largest Stadiums in the Premier League and the largest club stadium in London.
The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is designed to be a multi-purpose edifice.
It features the world's first dividing, retractable football pitch, which reveals a synthetic turf pitch underneath for
NFL London Games, concerts and other events.
The "Tottenham Hotspur Stadium" is a temporary name. The Stadium's naming rights is to be sold and named after a sponsor.
Planning
In 2007, the club first announced that it was considering redevelopment of the current site.
The club also did not fully commit itself to building the stadium in Tottenham until January 2012.
In October 2013, it was revealed that the club was considering a new plan for a multi-use stadium that can host American NFL games.
The Mayor of London also gave formal approval to the plans in February 2016.
Construction
The stadium was constructed in two main phases so that White Hart Lane could still be used in the 2016–17 season while the construction was in progress.
The first phase involved the construction of the northern section of the stadium, while the South Stand construction would start in the second phase, after White Hart Lane had been demolished.
The northeast corner of White Hart Lane was demolished in the summer of 2016 after the 2015–16 season had finished.
The demolition of the majority remaining White Hart Lane ground began the day after the last home match of the 2016–17 season was played, all visible remnants of White Hart Lane were removed by early August 2017.
The pitch was laid in early October 2018.
The exterior of the stadium is finished with 35,000 decorative tiles, 4,801 perforated metal panels and 2,505 glass panels.
The external cladding of the stadium was completed with the last few metal panels of the 'veil' installed in March 2019.
Opening
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The first match, an under-18s fixture between Tottenham and
Southampton held on 24 March, was attended by 28,987 fans and won by Tottenham 3–1, with the first ever goal at the stadium scored by J'Neil Bennett.
The opening was originally planned for the second home match against Liverpool in September 2018, but delays to the opening of the stadium forced Tottenham to extend their temporary tenancy of Wembley Stadium for the 2018–19 season until April 2019.
The stadium opened with a ceremony on 3 April 2019 before its first competitive senior game, which was the Premier League match against Crystal Palace.
The match, attended by 59,215, was won by Tottenham 2–0, with Son Heung-min scoring the first ever official goal at the new stadium.
Son Heung-Min is the happiest guy in the world 😁 - As posted on Tottenham Hotspur Twitter account 👇👇
💬 Sonny on becoming the first ever Premier League goalscorer at our new home.#SpursAreHome ⚪️ #COYS pic.twitter.com/KQ1ayjHpDU— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) April 4, 2019
Architecture and Facilities
• Capacity of 62,062
• Around 48 m high, 250 m long on its north-south axis and about 200 metres wide east to west.
• 9 floors in the northern section above the basement, and 5 floors in the south, with a gross internal area of 119,945 m²
• A large open public square, the size of
Trafalgar Square
• The roof is a cable net structure, held in place by an elliptically-shaped compression ring.
• The pitch is lit by 324 LED floodlights, arranged in 54 groups of six
• There are four large LED screens inside the stadium
• Nearly 1,800 video screens in and around the stadium.
Pitch
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The football pitch of the stadium has a standard dimension of 105m x 68m, same in size as the pitches at Old Trafford and Wembley stadium.
The overall grass surface is 114.58×79.84 metres, including the perimeter between the pitch and the stands.
In order to keep the football pitch in optimum condition, there are two different surfaces – a Desso GrassMaster hybrid grass pitch for football, and a synthetic turf surface underneath to be used for NFL games, as well as concerts and other events.
The football pitch can be retracted in a way similar to that of the Arizona Cardinals ' home stadium, but it is the first in the world to split into three sections before retracting.
The grass can also be maintained with an artificial lighting and irrigation system when the pitch is retracted under the south podium.
Uses, Cost and Sponsorship
Stadium Views - As posted on Tottenham Hotspur official Twitter account 👇👇
— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) April 4, 2019
The stadium is intended to be used for a number of purposes and will serve as the venue for association football as well as NFL games and other events.
The cost of the project is widely reported to be £1 billion or more, [128] although the club has insisted that the final cost would be less than a billion.
The project was financed through a combination of club's own resources, bank loans and club revenues.
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