The 10 most expensive football stadiums worldwide, guess where SA clocks in
South Africa has no less than three of the world’s ten most expensive stadiums; think you can guess which ones made the cut?
There’s nothing like a global sporting event to kick a country’s infrastructural development initiatives into overdrive. We’ve seen it at home just before the 2010 Fifa World Cup, in London with the 2012 Olympics and we’re currently seeing it in Qatar for Fifa’s next World Cup.
Here are FootballsTopTen’s ten most expensive stadiums ever built… if you think about it, they’re our way of bragging about how great we think we are.
Wembley Stadium, United Kingdom $1.2 billion
Estadio Nacional Manne Garrincha, Brazil $900 million
Cape Town Stadium, South Africa $600 million
Emirates Stadium, United Kingdom $570 million
Aviva Stadium, Ireland $570 million
Santiago Bernabeau, Spain $550 million
Arena De Sao Paulo, Brazil $500 million
Allianz Arena, Germany $470 million
Moses Mabhida Stadium, South Africa $450 million
FNB Stadium, South Africa$440 million
We South Africans take our sport pretty seriously, $1.49 billion seriously, and that’s not even all of them.