Data teknik

Permukaan Rumput (Desso GrassMaster)

Kapasitas 90,000 (Sepak bola, liga rugbi, uni

rugbi)
86,000 (Sepak bola Amerika)
75,000 to 90,000 tempat duduk dan
15,000 tempat berdiri (konser)
68,400 to 72,000 (atletik)

Ukuran 105 × 69 m (344 × 226 ft)

lapangan

Pemanas A
bawah tanah

Informasi stadion

Pemilik The Football Association

Operator Wembley National Stadium Limited

Lokasi

Lokasi London, Inggris

51°33′21″N 0°16′47″W Koordinat:

Koordinat
51°33′21″N 0°16′47″W

Konstruksi

Mulai 2003
pembangunan

Dibuat 2003-2007

Dibuka 2007
 Biaya £798 juta Pounds ($1,57Dolar AS)
pembuatan

Arsitek Foster and Partners

Populous (kemudian HOK Sport)

Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners (konsultan

perencanaan )

Manajer proyek Symonds

Insinyur Mott MacDonald

struktur

Insinyur Mott MacDonald

pemeliharaan

Kontraktor Multiplex Constructions (UK) Ltd

umum

Stadion Wembley (sering disebut hanya sebagai Wembley atau kadang-kadang sebagai New
Wembley untuk membedakannya dengan stadion yang lama, diucapkan /wɛmbli/) adalah sebuah
stadion sepak bola yang terletak di Wembley Park, London Borough of Brent, Inggris dan merupakan
kandang dari tim nasional sepak bola Inggris. Stadion yang dibuka pada tahun 2007 ini berkapasitas
90.000 bangku dan merupakan stadion terbesar kedua di Eropa. Stadion ini juga
merupakan host laga final piala domestik Inggris, Piala FA.

Stadion ini dirancang oleh Foster and Partners dan Populous (kemudian HOK Sport), termasuk
lengkungan baja yang sangat terkenal di bagian struktur atap. Dengan rentang 317 meter (1.040
kaki), lengkungan baja Stadion Wembley adalah lengkungan baja struktur atap dengan bentangan
tunggal terpanjang di dunia. Stadion ini dibangun oleh perusahaan Australia Multiplex dengan biaya
£ 798,000,000. Stadion The Old Wembley ditutup pada bulan Oktober 2000, dengan pembongkaran
awalnya ditujukan mulai pada bulan Desember tahun itu juga dan pembangunan stadion baru akan
dimulai pada tahun 2003. Namun, akibat adanya penundaan, pembongkaran pertama baru dimulai
pada bulan September 2002 dan pembongkaran The Old Wembley tidak terselesaikan sampai bulan
Februari 2003. Stadion ini mengalami penundaan lebih lanjut akibat sengketa hukum antara WNSL
dan Multiplex, yang akhirnya menimbulkan kerugian yang signifikan pada proyek ini. Stadion ini pun
akhirnya terselesaikan dan diserahkan pada tanggal 9 Maret 2007 untuk menjadi tuan rumah Final
Piala FA 2007, lebih lambat setahun dari rencana, yaitu menjadi tuan rumah Final Piala FA 2006.

Dalam sepakbola internasional, stadion ini merupakan komponen sentral dalam pencalonan Inggris
sebagai tuan rumah Piala Dunia 2018 dan 2022 dan juga akan menjadi tuan rumah Final Olimpiade
London 2012 dalam cabang sepak bola. Selain menjadi tuan rumah laga final Piala FA, stadion ini
juga menjadi tuan rumah laga Community Shield, babak final Piala Liga Inggris, dan tuan rumah
babak final play-off Football League Championship, Final Liga Champions UEFA 2011, Piala Wembley,
dan NFL International Series. Stadion ini juga pernah menjadi tempat konser artis-artis ternama,
seperti Green Day, Muse, Oasis, Take That, Metallica,U2, dan Madonna serta menjadi host Konser
untuk Diana dan Konser Live Earth.

Wembley Stadium is a football stadium in Wembley, London, England, which opened in 2007, on the
site of the originalWembley Stadium, which was demolished from 2002–2003.[8] The stadium hosts
major football matches including the FA Cup Final and home matches of the England national
football team.

Wembley Stadium is a UEFA category four stadium. With 90,000 seats, it is the second-largest
stadium in Europe and thelargest stadium in the United Kingdom.[2] It is owned by The Football
Association through its subsidiary Wembley National Stadium Ltd (WNSL).

Designed by HOK Sport[9] and Foster and Partners, it includes a partially retractable roof and the 134-
metre-high (440 ft) Wembley Arch. The stadium was built by Australian firm Multiplex at a cost of
£798 million.

In addition to the FA Cup Final, the stadium hosts the season-opening FA Community Shield,
the League Cup Final, theFootball League Trophy and the Football League play-offs. It hosted
the 2011 and 2013 UEFA Champions League Final, the Gold medal matches at the 2012 Olympic
Games football tournament, and will host both the semi-finals and final of UEFA Euro 2020.[10] The
stadium also hosts the rugby league Challenge Cup Final, the NFL International Series and music
concerts.

Contents

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 1Stadium

o 1.1Construction

o 1.2Handover and opening

o 1.3Structure

o 1.4Pitch

o 1.5Covering

o 1.6Litigation

 2Tenants

 3Music
 o 3.1Concerts

 4Firsts at the new Wembley Stadium

o 4.1Football

o 4.2Rugby league

o 4.3Rugby union

o 4.4American football

o 4.5Boxing

 5Transport connections

o 5.1Rail and Underground

o 5.2Onsite parking

o 5.3Bus

 6References

 7External links

Stadium[edit]

Wembley Stadium exterior

Wembley was designed by architects Foster + Partners and HOK Sport (now known as Populous) and
with engineers Mott Stadium Consortium, who were a collection of three structural engineering
consultants in the form of Mott MacDonald Ltd, Sinclair Knight & Merz and Aurecon. The design of
the building services was carried out byMott MacDonald Ltd. The construction of the stadium was
managed by Australian company Brookfield Multiplex and funded by Sport England, WNSL
(Wembley National Stadium Limited), the Football Association, the Department for Culture Media
and Sport and the London Development Agency. It is one of the most expensive stadiaever built at a
cost of £798 million (After the MetLife Stadium)[11][12] and has the largest roof-covered seating
capacity in the world. Nathaniel Lichfield and Partnerswas appointed to assist Wembley National
Stadium Limited in preparing the scheme for a new stadium and to obtain planning and listed
building permission for the development.[13]
Wembley Stadium interior

The all-seater stadium is based around a bowl design with a capacity of 90,000, protected from the
elements by a sliding roof that does not completely enclose it. It can also be adapted as an athletic
stadium by erecting a temporary platform over the lowest tier of seating.[14] The stadium's signature
feature is a circular section lattice arch of 7 m (23 ft) internal diameter with a 315 m (1,033 ft) span,
erected some 22° off true, and rising to 133 m (436 ft). It supports all the weight of the north roof
and 60% of the weight of the retractable roof on the southern side.[15] The archway is the world's
longest unsupported roof structure.[16]

A "platform system" has been designed to convert the stadium for athletics use, but its use would
decrease the stadium's capacity to approximately 60,000.[17] No athletics events (track and field)
have taken place at the stadium, and none are scheduled.[18] The conversion for athletics use was a
condition of part of the lottery funding the stadium received, but to convert it would take weeks of
work and cost millions of pounds.[19]

Construction[edit]

The stadium in its very early stages of construction c. August 2003

The initial plan for the reconstruction of Wembley was for demolition to begin before Christmas
2000, and for the new stadium to be completed some time during 2003, but this work was delayed
by a succession of financial and legal difficulties. In 2004, the London Mayor, Ken Livingstone, and
Brent Council also announced wider plans for the regeneration of Wembley, taking in the arena and
the surrounding areas as well as the stadium, to be implemented over two or three decades.
Demolition officially began on 30 September 2002, with the towers being dismantled in December
2002.

Delays to the construction project started as far back as 2003. In December 2003, the constructors of
the arch, subcontractors Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company of Darlington, warned Multiplex
about rising costs and a delay on the steel job of almost a year due to Multiplex design changes
which Multiplex rejected[clarification needed]. Cleveland Bridge withdrew from the project and replaced by
Dutch firm Hollandia with all the attendant problems of starting over. 2004 also saw errors, most
notably a fatal accident involving carpenter Patrick O'Sullivan for which construction firm PC
Harrington Contractors were fined £150,000 in relation to breaches of health and safety laws.[20]

In October 2005, Sports Minister Richard Caborn announced: "They say the Cup Final will be there,
barring six feet of snow or something like that". By November 2005, WNSL were still hopeful of a
handover date of 31 March, in time for the cup final on 13 May. However, in December 2005, the
builders admitted that there was a "material risk" that the stadium might not be ready in time for
the final.[21][22] In February 2006 these worries were confirmed, with the FA moving the game
to Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.

Construction of the new Wembley, looking east, taken January 2006

On 20 March 2006, a steel rafter in the roof of the new development fell by a foot and a half, forcing
3,000 workers to evacuate the stadium and raising further doubts over the completion date which
was already behind schedule.[23] On 23 March 2006, sewers beneath the stadium buckled due to
ground movement.[24] GMB Union leader Steve Kelly said that the problem had been caused by the
pipes not being properly laid, and that the repair would take months. Rumours circulated that the
reason for the blockage was due to Multiplex failing to pay the contractors who laid the pipes who
then filled in the pipes with concrete. A spokesman for developers Multiplex said that they did not
believe this would "have any impact on the completion of the stadium", which was then scheduled
to be completed on 31 March 2006.

On 30 March 2006, the developers announced that Wembley Stadium would not be ready until
2007.[25] All competitions and concerts planned were to be moved to suitable locations. On 19 June
2006 it was announced that the turf had been laid. On 19 October 2006 it was announced that the
venue was now set to open in early 2007 after the dispute between The Football Association and
Multiplex had finally been settled. WNSL was expected to pay around £36m to Multiplex, on top of
the amount of the original fixed-price contract. The total cost of the project (including local transport
infrastructure redevelopment and the cost of financing) was estimated to be £1 billion (roughly
US$2 billion).

For the new stadium the level of the pitch was lowered. During excavation of the new playing field,
mechanical diggers unearthed a buried obstruction: the concrete foundations of Watkin's Tower, a
failed attempt to construct a rival to the Eiffel Tower in London. Only the base of the tower was ever
built before being abandoned and demolished in 1907; the site was later used as the location for the
first Wembley Stadium.[26]
Handover and opening[edit]

The statue of Bobby Moorestands outside the stadium entrance, looking downWembley Way

The new stadium was completed and handed over to the FA on 9 March 2007. The official Wembley
Stadium website had announced that the stadium would be open for public viewing for local
residents of Brent on 3 March 2007, however this was delayed by two weeks and instead happened
on 17 March.

While the stadium had hosted football matches since the handover in March, the stadium was
officially opened on Saturday 19 May, with the staging of the 2007 FA Cup Final. Eight days before
that on Friday 11 May, the statue of Bobby Moore had been unveiled by Sir Bobby Charltonoutside
the stadium entrance, as the "finishing touch" to the completion of the stadium. The twice life-size
bronze statue, sculpted by Philip Jackson, depicts England's 1966 World Cup winning captain Bobby
Moore, looking down Olympic Way.[27][28][29]

Structure[edit]

 The stadium contains 2,618 toilets, more than any other venue in the world.[30]

 The stadium has a circumference of 1 km (0.62 mi).[31]

 The bowl volume is listed at 1,139,100 m3, somewhat smaller than the Millennium
Stadium in Cardiff, but with a greater seating capacity.[32]

 At its peak, there were more than 3,500 construction workers on site.[33]

 4,000 separate piles form the foundations of the new stadium,[31] the deepest of which is
35 m (115 ft).[31]

 There are 56 km (35 mi) of heavy-duty power cables in the stadium.[31]

 90,000 m3 (120,000 yd3) of concrete and 23,000 tonnes (25,000 short tons) of steel were
used in the construction of the new stadium.[31]

 The total length of the escalators is 400 m (¼ mi).[31]

  The Wembley Arch has a cross-sectional diameter greater than that of a cross-channel
Eurostar train.[34][35]

Pitch[edit]

Wembley Stadium pitch duringEngland friendly against Germany in August 2007.

The new pitch is 13 ft (4.0 m) lower than the previous pitch.[citation needed] The pitch size, as lined for
association football, is 115 yd (105 m) long by 75 yd (69 m) wide, slightly narrower than the old
Wembley, as required by the UEFA stadium categories for a category four stadium, the top category.

Since the completion of the new Wembley, the pitch has come into disrepute since it was described
as being "no good" and "not in the condition that Wembley used to be known for" by Slaven
Bilić before the game between England and the team he managed, Croatia.[36] It was confirmed
when the pitch was terribly cut up during the game, which was blamed by some[37] as the reason
England did not qualify for UEFA Euro 2008.[38] The Football Association admitted in April 2009 after
the FA Cup semi-finals that improvements are needed to the Wembley pitch after criticism of the
surface by Sir Alex Ferguson, Arsène Wenger and David Moyes. The grass has been relaid ten times
since the stadium re-opened in 2007 and was relaid again in the summer of 2009, ahead of the 2009
Community Shield.[39][40]

In March 2010, the surface was relaid for the 10th time since 2007, when the stadium was built. In
April 2010, the pitch was again criticised following the FA Cup semi-finals, during which the players
found it difficult to keep their footing and the surface cut up despite the dry conditions. The
then Tottenham Hotspur boss, Harry Redknapp labelled it a "disgrace" after his side's semi-final
defeat to Portsmouth.[41] After the 2010 FA Cup Final,Chelsea captain John Terry said, "The pitch
ruined the final. It's probably the worst pitch we've played on all year. It was not good enough for a
Wembley pitch."[42] It was relaid with Desso semi-artificial pitch, ahead of the 2010 community
shield game between Chelsea and Manchester United. Michael Owen, who previously criticised the
pitch for causing him injury, said that it was much improved.[43]

Covering[edit]
Close-Up of the Arch

The stadium roof has an area of 40,000 m2, of which 13,722 m2 is movable.[32] The primary reason for
the sliding roof was to avoid shading the pitch, as grass demands direct sunlight to grow
effectively.[44] The sliding roof design minimises the shadow by having the roof pulled back on the
east, west and south.[45] Angus Campbell, chief architect, also said that an aim was for the pitch to be
in sunlight during the match between the beginning of May and the end of June, between 3 pm and
5 pm, which is when the FA and World cups would be played. However it was mentioned during live
commentary of the FA Cup Final in 2007 that the pitch was in partial shade at the start at 3 pm and
also during the match.[46]

The stadium roof rises to 52 metres above the pitch and is supported by an arch rising 133 metres
above the level of the external concourse. With a span of 315 metres, the arch is the longest single
span roof structure in the world.[31]

Litigation[edit]

The Australian firm Multiplex, which was the main contractor on Wembley Stadium, made significant
losses on the project.[47][48] In an attempt to recoup some of those losses, the firm has initiated a
number of legal cases against its sub-contractors and consultants.[49] The largest of these – the
largest construction claim in UK legal history – was a claim for £253 million against the structural
engineering consultants Mott MacDonald.[50] In preliminary hearings the two architecture practices
which worked for Multiplex on the project were ordered to allow Multiplex access to their records in
order for them to build a case. The practices, Foster + Partners and Populous, estimated the costs of
providing access and answering Multiplex's queries at £5 million.[51] The case was not due to be
heard until January 2011.[52] Mott MacDonald has issued a counter-claim for unpaid fees of
£250,000.[50] The dispute between Multiplex (now known as Brookfield) and Mott MacDonald was
settled out of court in June 2010, the judge having warned that costs were likely to be more than
£74 million.[53]

Multiplex also took the original steel contractor, Cleveland Bridge, to court to claim up to
£38 million[54] compensation for costs resulting from Cleveland Bridge walking away from the job.
Cleveland Bridge, in turn, claimed up to £15 million from Multiplex. The case was finally resolved in
September 2008 with Cleveland Bridge ordered to pay £6.1 million in damages and 20% of
Multiplex's costs after the court found Cleveland Bridge was in the wrong to walk off site. The judge
criticised both sides for allowing the case to reach court, pointing out that total costs were
£22 million, including £1 million for photocopying.[55] Multiplex's ultimate bill is estimated to be over
£10 million.
Multiplex is also contesting a claim from its concrete contractor, PC Harrington, that Multiplex owes
£13.4 million to PC Harrington.[56]

Wembley Stadium

"The Home of Football"[1]

New Wembley

UEFA

Location London, England

Coordinates
51°33′21″N 0°16′47″WCoordinates:
51°33′21″N 0°16′47″W

Owner The Football Association

Operator Wembley National Stadium Limited

Executive suites 166

Capacity 90,000[2] (Association football,rugby

league, rugby union)
75,000 to 90,000 seated and 15,000
standing (concerts)
60,000 to 72,000 (athletics)
 86,000 (American football)

Record attendance 90,000 (Muse, Eminem)

Field size 105 by 68 metres (115 by 74 yd)

Surface Desso GrassMaster

Construction

Broke ground 30 September 2002[3]

Built 2002–2007

Opened 9 March 2007; 8 years ago

Construction cost GBP £757 million (2007)[4]

(£938 million in 2016 sterling[5])

Architect HOK Sport (Populous since

2009), Foster and Partners,Nathaniel
Lichfield and Partners(planning
consultants)[6]

Project manager Symonds[7]

Structural Mott Stadium Consortium – Mott

engineer MacDonald, Sinclair Knight &
Merz & Aurecon[7]

Services engineer Mott MacDonald[7]

General contractor Multiplex Constructions (UK) Ltd[7]

Tenants

England national football team (2007–present)

NFL International Series (NFL) (2007-present)

Website

wembleystadium.com