50 of the most atmospheric stadiums in football

[Arnold.J.Rimmer]

so says the Dailly Mail so it must be true

50 El Monumental, River Plate

49 Bramall Lane, Sheffield United

48 The Den, Millwall

47 Stadium of Light, Sunderland

46 Stadio Luigi Ferraris, Sampdoria/Genoa

45 Stamford Bridge, Chelsea

44 Villa Park, Aston Villa

43 Britannia Stadium, Stoke

42 Loftus Road, QPR

41 Maksimir Stadium, Croatia

40 Stadio San Paolo, Napoli

39 Turf Moor, Burnley

38 Stade Felix Bollaert, Lens

37 Racecourse Ground, Wrexham

36 Ayresome Park, Middlesbrough

35 Stadio Olimpico, Roma/Lazio

34 Maracana, Brazil

33 Ashton Gate, Bristol City

32 Memorial Ground, Bristol Rovers

31 The Dell, Southampton

30: The Hawthorns, West Bromwich Albion

29: Stark's Park, Raith Rovers

28: Sukru Saracoglu Stadium, Fenerbahce

27: Boothferry Park, Hull City

26: Upton Park, West Ham United

25: Elland Road, Leeds United

24: Tynecastle, Heart of Midlothian

23: Estadio Mestalla, Valencia

22: Ninian Park, Cardiff City

21: Roker Park, Sunderland

20: La Bombonera, Boca Juniors

19: Hampden Park, Scotland

18: Stade Velodrome, Marseille

17: Millennium Stadium, Wales

16: Hillsborough, Sheffield Wednesday

15: Ibrox, Rangers

14: Westfalenstadion, Borussia Dortmund

13: Galatasaray, Ali Sami Yen Stadium

12: Maine Road, Man City

11: White Hart Lane, Tottenham

10: Fratton Park, Portsmouth:

9: Wembley (the one with the Twin Towers), England

8: Santiago Bernabeu, Real Madrid

7: San Siro/ Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, AC Milan/Inter Milan

6: Goodison Park, Everton

5: Old Trafford, Manchester United

4: St James' Park, Newcastle United

3: Parkhead, Celtic

2: Camp Nou, FC Barcelona

1: Anfield, Liverpool

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1099648/THE-LIST-50-41-atmospheric-stadiums-football.html

[Ardiles]

Who writes this bollocks?

(But as an aside, I'm slightly stunned that the Mail has admitted that some of the best stadiums were built by foreigners.)

[Panda Paws]

Pompey at 10...are they taking the piss....the most overrated fans in football!

[Tails]

Have you been to Fratton Park? It's fucking noisy, even when they were shit.

[Iffy's Onion Bhaji]

Pompey had some of loudest fans at the CG i've seen in a long while actually in pre-season. They took about 1,000 but imagine how loud they'd have been with 3,000?

[adje]

Old Trafford above the Maracana???

[chalkies_shorts]

Sheff Utd and Wrexham - the two Brizzles - dear me.

[Rustle]

Old Trafford number 5 what a joke,I would have Fratton Park higher than old trafford,pompey fans are loud as fuck, that's one of the reasons they do so well at home.

Most of that list is bullshit. 

[Kinky Tom]

Why laugh at Loftus Road, I've always said it's one of my favourite grounds in the country, at the back row of Loftus Road your closer to the pitch than the front row at Molineux.  Proper ground.

[Rich Pullen]

Alot of Bristolian journalists out there. We've outsang City plenty of times though.

[RobertT]

Why laugh at Loftus Road, I've always said it's one of my favourite grounds in the country, at the back row of Loftus Road your closer to the pitch than the front row at Molineux.  Proper ground.

Indeed, Loftus Road has to be one the best smaller grounds around.  Great place to make some noise as away fans all packed into a 2 tier stand but still feeling as if it's a sort of terrace.

Love Griffin Park as well, when the away fans were in the 2 tier stand behind the goal.

Old Trafford is a cracking Stadium but not very atmospheric from my visits.

Not been there, but Upton Park always looks like it should be a cracker from the TV but the new stand was put a little further away from the pitch wasn't it?  That was the problem at Wolves, building so far away from the old pitch.  Mind you, it was worse during the many years it took to redevelop it, or so I was told by my Dad.

I've no idea how either Bristol ground made the list, Ashton Gate must be on a par with our ground for atmosphere these days, what with them failing to use the best stand for their own fans (for making some noise) but overall the sound seems to just drift away wherever you are.

I wonder how much effort new ground architects put into acoustics and arranging stands and design to encourage more noise?  If you could copy the QPR design, that seems to work as it's so compact for a 20k ground.

[janaage]

Loftus Road is my favourite away ground by some way.  Not really up on my lower league Scottish fitba but why are Raith Rovers in that list, at number 29?

[Samdy Gray]

Wrexham?! WTF?!

[swindon_chick]

Trashton Gate? Serious what is that doing in there?

[Arriba]

best atmosphere's at away grounds i've heard are stoke-old ground just shades it but loud as fuck at both.wolves,west ham,leeds,villa.