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POPULOUS
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ith a capacity of 62,062, the new stadium becomes the biggest
club stadium in London and, by incorporating a fully retractable
pitch, the first in the world to be custom-built to stage football
and NFL games. The stadium has been designed to generate
one of the best match day atmospheres in the world, with
uninterrupted sightlines and spectators closer to the pitch than
at any comparable ground in the UK. The stands are angled at 35
degrees — the steepest angle that UK guidelines recommend
— to create a tighter, atmospheric stadium bowl which focusses
towards the southern ‘home end’, where 17,500 spectators will
come together to generate a ‘wall of sound’ in the largest single-
tier stand in the UK.