St. Jakob Park Stadium
Basel, Switzerland: Capacity - 42,500
St. Jakob Park (St James Park in English) is the stadium where FC Basel play. "Joggeli" as it is nicknamed, has a current capacity of 39'000 seats. The capacity will be increased to 42,500 in time for Euro 2008, which will be hosted in Switzerland and Austria. The stadium is divided into four blocks, A B C and D, each block is a whole side of the stadium. St. Jakob Park is a fairly new stadium, the construction started on the 13th of December 1998. The first game played in it was on the 15th of March 2001. The stadium itself is managed by "Basel United". The stadium cost around 220 million Swiss Francs to build. The stadium has been awarded 4 stars by UEFA, which is the highest amount of stars that can be awarded to a stadium of that size.