Football and urbanism

Chapter 1

New home

Atletico Madrid’s 120,000 club members recently had to move across town to their brand-new stadium, the Wanda Metropolitano. The relocation has also upset decades of ingrained sensibilities across the city map. We find out more.

Chapter 2

The Float

Andrew Mueller tells us the story of the Float, the world’s largest floating football pitch.

Chapter 3

Lessons from South Africa

Eight years ago, South Africa hosted the Fifa World Cup across nine of its cities. It was a huge logistical undertaking in a continent that had never hosted a sporting event on such a scale. But what were the World Cup’s lasting effects on the country’s urban environments?

Chapter 4

Bezigrad Stadium

Ljubljana​’s Bezigrad Stadium​ ​is​ an unusual venue​. ​Designed by​ Joze Plecnik​, it is one of the few stadiums in world football built before the Second World War​. But the stadium​ has been ​derelict since 2008 and development plans have come to nothing.