Wembley Stadium Roof Boxing

The new stadium with its elegant exposed steel.

Wembley stadium roof boxing.

Unified heavyweight world champion anthony joshua will return to wembley stadium for his next two fights. The roof at wembley is partially retractable and can be moved but doesn t cover the pitch. The stadium hosts major football matches including home matches of the england national football team and the fa cup final. Unlike cardiff s millennium stadium the retractable roof at wembley does not cover the entire pitch.

Roof description the aim of the new wembley stadium was to design and build a state of the art national stadium unlike any other in the world. Just under a week after the second of two sensational fa cup semi finals wembley needs to be transformed from a football stadium to the location for boxing s biggest fight of the year. Wembley needs significant repairs to its roof that could take at least 10 years to complete. Wembley stadium is the largest football stadium in england and the second largest stadium in europe located at wembley the stadium is governed by the football association and is the home of england s national team it has been constructed after demolishing the original wembley stadium in 2002 and was completed in march 2007 at the cost of 798 million by australian company brookfield.

As you can see it does not cover the pitch and if rain is falling at an angle some guests in level 1 seating may get wet. And there are no plans to close it in the event of bad weather. The faults in a roof built in 2007 first became obvious in 2013 when the sealant on the metal roof. 5 live boxing with costello bunce boxing in the 2010s british fighter of first part of the decade carl froch froch v groves ii in 2014 was the first fight at wembley stadium since 1995.

Wembley stadium branded as wembley stadium connected by ee for sponsorship reasons is a football stadium in wembley london it opened in 2007 on the site of the original wembley stadium which was demolished from 2002 to 2003. Structural design of the arch and roof of wembley stadium kourosh kayvani phd fieaust cpeng aurecon sydney australia. It sits 52 metres above the playing surface and can move forwards and backwards enough to cover the. The picture above shows the roof in its fully closed position.