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#4 West Ham United | London Stadium, 60,000
West Ham United's Boleyn Ground was an iconic monument of the club's working class roots. In 2016, West Ham made the shift to the London Stadium, specially designed for the 2012 London Olympics, on a 99 year lease. The move was a major upgrade to modernize the club and stadium facilities.
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West Ham have fought off bids from Tottenham Hotspur and other multi-purpose stadium contractors to occupy the stadium. It also has the distinction of hosting the first ever major league baseball game in Europe in 2019, when the Boston Red Sox played the New York Yankees.
#3 Arsenal | Emirates Stadium, 60,704
The landmark Emirates stadium, inaugurated in 2006 planned exclusively for Arsenal and was a massive step up from the smaller, more intimate Highbury Stadium. With the club enjoying an immense spell of success under Arsene Wenger, the club hierarchy felt it was imperative to capitalize on the club's commercial value and build a stadium rivaling Manchester United.
The £260 million loan for the stadium development was much talked about as a reason for extraordinary austerity under Arsene Wenger's later years. Regardless, the stadium has been of immense value to the future of Arsenal.
The reported "distant" feel of the stadium was combatted by the "Arsenalisation" project with several memorabilia and changes across the stadium. This includes statues of Gooner legends Thiery Henry and Dennis Bergkamp.
#2 Tottenham Hotspur | Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, 62,850
The newest Premier League ground is also one of the largest and most modern architectural marvels in London. Having opened in 2019, the arena is a state-of-the-art multipurpose stadium equipped with a retracting football pitch, as well as a turf and open grounds for events.
Tottenham Hotspur had plotted to develop White Hart Lane since 2009, and proceeded to demolish the site of the old stadium to build from the ground up. In the meantime, Spurs used Wembley Stadium as a temporary home. Chairman Daniel Levy will consider it a masterstroke in terms of club revenue and commercial value in the years to come.
#1 Manchester United | Old Trafford, 74,994
The largest club stadium in English football, Old Trafford is a mammoth stadium located at Stretford, and is the eleventh largest in all of Europe. Famously called the "Theater of Dreams," the iconic stadium has been in use since 1910 and could originally house an astounding 80,000.
Home to one of England's most successful modern domestic and continental teams, Old Trafford is almost always packed to the rafters. During the Second World War, air raids destroyed the stadium, leaving Manchester United to share Maine Road with Manchester City. In 1949, repairs and roof installations were finally completed at the famous stadium.
The famous North Stand is now called the "Sir Alex Ferguson Stand" in honor of the 25 years of excellence the Scotsman dedicated to the club. The stand can impressively house over 26,000 spectators on its own.
