Not everything that has come out of China has impressed recently, but this right here is next level. Chinese Super League team Guangzhou Evergrande are in the process of building the largest football-only stadium in the world, and their new video shows what the completed project is set to look like.
Not only will it be the world's largest football-specific stadium with 100,000 seats and 168 VIP boxes, it'll also be shaped like a giant lotus flower, because it damn well can. Designed by Shanghai-based, American architect Hasan Syed, the home of Guangzhou Evergrande will be the fourth largest overall stadium in the world. Only the Rungrado 1st May Stadium in DPR Korea, Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium, and the Melbourne Cricket Ground have bigger capacities.
It'll take a lot to fill 100,000 seats each home fixture, especially when Guangzhou Evergrande averaged 45,000 in their current 60,000 capacity stadium last season, but it's immensely impressive nonetheless in a massive sea-urchin kinda way. The proposed project is expected to cost $1.69 billion with a completion date of late 2022, which sounds pretty fast. Bit different to Burnley away, init?
