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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 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

44 Villa Park, Aston Villa

43 Britannia Stadium, Stoke

42 Loftus Road, QPR :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

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 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

32 Memorial Ground, Bristol Rovers :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

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

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.)

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

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

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?

Old Trafford above the Maracana?????????

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

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. 

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.

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

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.

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?

Wrexham?! WTF?!

Trashton Gate? Serious what is that doing in there?

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.

Ive been to Nou Camp twice over the last couple of yearsm and both times the atmosphere has been awful on both of them. It seemed silent at times.

MMMMM, no Trent Bridge or Baseball Ground.....and i agree Pompey are overated,love loftus road and Fulham is quality when full,my favourite away ground when full is Goodison,the place crackles with atmosphere.

Yes I have, and really.....the tenth best atmosphere world football? they don't even fill the place most weeks and it was half empty before they suddenly became this massive club with the best fans in the world. I remember going there 10 years ago and it was no better than most grounds, certainly doesn't stand out in the memory for being spine tingling, ear splitting loud. Stoke, on the other hand, is amazing at times.

Wolves is good when it gets going

The Old Den use to really rock in the 80s.
Loftus Road is a proper ground and the atmosphere can be pretty electric.
Favourite ground for atmosphere/noise - The Dell!!!

Worse ground for atmosphere/noise - White Hart Lane

Can't beleive boavista's ground isn't there. The match I went to was immense. Never heard it so loud.

Best atmosphere at a game i've been to was Russia Vs England in the Luzhniki. Intimdating.

I always thought Home Park at Plymouth was pretty decent, certainly a lot better than either Bristol club but, like, whatever

That list is at least 50% total bollocks.

The Old Den and The Boleyn Ground should be in the top 10...and Trashton Gate...WTF, even in the derbies its fucking shit.

Agreed,though they never are really up for it against us....different v Rovers and the welsh clubs,can remember going to Ninian Park ona boxing day,Rogers played and we drew 0-0 in front of 26,000,tha atmosphere was amazing and can clearly remember it many years later.

Quite right! I've been there when neither were near full and the way their fans still get behind
the teams is something else.However,if you don't perform as a player or team, they soon let you
know!

The best atmosphere i've ever experienced at a league game,was when my Dad took myself and
a friend to see Rogers play for Palace against Man Utd.50.000 in the ground before 2pm and the noise just
got louder and louder in the hour before kick off.Palace won 5-0, Rogers ran them ragged scoring 2 goals
and with it being shown on the Big Match,one of the goals was voted ITV's goal of the season.
Bert Head was still manager,before Palace panicked and appointed Malcolm Allison.What a day out for
2 young school boys!

And most were astonished he wasnt in the England squad after his performances for Palace...the best player never to play for England...according to no other than Jimmy Greaves and plenty more.