Why Do British Football Stadiums Have Roofs

Metlife stadium is one of the most expensive football stadiums ever built.

Why do british football stadiums have roofs.

In theory a retractable roof is the best option as you can host indoor events nurture your hallowed turf for rugby and football and close it to prevent fixtures being cancelled. Tennis stadiums a traditional outdoor sport but with a much smaller playing area only domed and retractable roof stadiums are included i e. Open stadiums are either called stadiums or bowls bowls are more common in college football like the rose bowl in pasadena california. Stadiums designed for field sports such as baseball and any of a wide variety of football codes and or athletics track and field.

We call them domes. This is a list of football stadiums in england ranked in descending order of capacity there is an extremely large number of football stadiums and pitches in england so this list is not complete. While weather matters stadium designs are chosen based on. A lot of new nfl stadiums in places that get very cold or very hot have roofs.

That lone statistic raises the question of whether the. In that case why don t more stadiums have retractable roofs then. In college football it is less common for starters i can t think of any new college stadiums a lot of these stadiums have been around for 50 years which is long before indoor football stadiums became popular. And some like cowboys stadium are retractable so if necessary they can make their stadium have a roof.

And why do so few cold weather cities spring for a stadium with a roof. The four nfl teams with retractable roof stadiums have chosen to play almost twice as many games with the roofs closed than with them open. The reason it turns out has only a little to do with football. The most famous is probably the super dome in new orleans.

I do not if there is a specific reason but i personally prefer open stadiums because football is played in snow rain sleet or sunshine i have attended a game in snow pouring rain hard driving wind blistering hot day but it was still awesome football one thing comes to mind come to think of it is roofless stadiums cost less to build.