It is the fourth largest stadium in Europe after Nou Camp in Barcelona, Wembley Stadium in London and Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid.

England's home ground is Wembley Stadium, London and their manager is Roy Hodgson.

Wembley Stadium during a England against Germany national football team | Germany exhibition

The original Empire Stadium was built in Wembley, London for the British Empire Exhibition.

The stadium later became known simply as Wembley Stadium and it became England's permanent home stadium during the 1950s.

They returned to the new Wembley Stadium in 2007.

The stadium is now owned by the Football Association via its subsidiary Wembley National Stadium Limited.

Traditionally, the FA Cup Final was played at London's Wembley Stadium.

Early finals were played in other locations and, due to extensive redevelopment of Wembley, finals between 2001 and 2006 were played at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

Venues used since 1990 include Manchester City's now demolished Maine Road stadium, Manchester United's Old Trafford Stadium, Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough stadium, Arsenal's former home, Highbury ( since redeveloped as housing ), London's Wembley Stadium, the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff and Aston Villa's Villa Park in Birmingham.

Three years after the war, the 1948 Summer Olympics were held at the original Wembley Stadium, at a time when the city had barely recovered from the war.

To aid Sentebale, as well as the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund and Centrepoint, Harry and his brother organised the Concert for Diana at Wembley Stadium, on 1 July 2007.

An accomplished career saw him making 55 further appearances ( the last 22 as captain ) for the national side, with perhaps his best game being 1958 at Wembley Stadium when he scored a hat-trick against the Soviet Union in a 5-0 win.

On August 21, 2012 the Jaguars announced they had finalized a deal to play one regular season home game each year between 2013 and 2016 at London's historic Wembley Stadium as part of the NFL International Series.

His breakthrough building was arguably the Willis Building in Ipswich in 1975 and he has since designed landmark structures such as Wembley Stadium and 30 St Mary Axe.

* 2002 – 2007, Wembley Stadium, London, UK

For the 2007 season, the NFL scheduled the Giants ' road game against the Miami Dolphins on October 28 in London's Wembley Stadium ; this was the first NFL regular-season game to be played outside of North America.

The match was contested by England and West Germany on 30 July 1966 at Wembley Stadium in London, and had an attendance of 98, 000.

** The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, held at Wembley Stadium, is televised live to over 1 billion people and raises millions of dollars for AIDS research.

** Wembley Stadium hosts a concert featuring stars from the fields of music, comedy and film, in celebration of the 70th birthday of imprisoned ANC leader Nelson Mandela.

** Queens Park Rangers become the first 3rd Division side to win the League Cup at Wembley Stadium, defeating West Bromwich Albion 3 – 2.

His Scottish father was manager of the Midland Bank's Wembley branch.

A 6 – 3 loss in 1953 to Hungary, was their first ever defeat at Wembley by a team from outside of the British Isles.

England played their first match at the stadium in 1924 against Scotland and for the next 27 years Wembley was used as a venue for matches against Scotland only.

This was the only time between 1923 and 2000 that the FA Cup final or the FA Cup Final replay was held at a stadium other than Wembley.

The 1991 semi-final between Arsenal and Tottenham was the first to be played at Wembley, as were both 1993, 1994 and 2000 semi-finals.

The decision to hold the semi-finals at the same location as the final can be controversial amongst fans However, starting with the 2008 cup, all semi-finals are played at Wembley ; the stadium was not ready for the 2007 semi-finals.

In goal, Banks was checked out by Ramsey for the first time in April 1963 against Scotland at Wembley.

Banks said the decision to sell was difficult – the 4 – 2 cup final victory over West Germany at Wembley was the greatest day of his career.

A year later, Hurst was back at Wembley for the final of the European Cup Winners Cup against 1860 Munich, and West Ham won 2 – 0.

An early 6 kW version, built in England by the General Electric Company Research Laboratories, Wembley, London ( not to be confused with the similarly named American company General Electric ), was given to the US government in September 1940.

The brand was the kit sponsor of Newcastle United football club between 1995 and 2000, during which time the team seriously challenged for the Premier League title and appeared at Wembley four times.

The Magic Tour's highlight was at Wembley Stadium in London and resulted in the live double album, Queen at Wembley, released on CD and as a live concert DVD, which has gone five times platinum in the US and four times platinum in the UK.

On 20 April 1992, The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert was held at London's Wembley Stadium to a 72, 000-strong crowd.

Wembley stadium was the venue for 22 athletics events at the Games ; 24 for men and nine for women.

The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness was an open-air concert held on Easter Monday, 20 April 1992 at London's Wembley Stadium, for an audience of 72, 000.

Metallica's 3-song performance was made into a UK tour edition single for Nothing Else Matters, entitled " Live at Wembley Stadium " and released in Europe just one week after the concert, on April 27, 1992.

The performance at London's Olympic Stadium opened with a special remastered video clip of Freddie Mercury on stage performing his call and response routine during their 1986 concert at Wembley Stadium.

The loss was attributable to £ 39. 6 million of interest payable and similar charges, principally relating to the cost of constructing the new Wembley Stadium, opened in 2006, which the FA owns via its subsidiary Wembley National Stadium Limited.

Wembley was closed for redevelopment the same month that the FA asked him to take over, October 2000, and he resigned before the new Wembley Stadium was opened.

The stadium opened in the summer of 2006, and has an all-seated capacity of 60, 355, making it the second biggest stadium in the Premiership after Old Trafford and the third biggest in London after Wembley Stadium and Twickenham Stadium.

The original Wembley Stadium, officially known as the Empire Stadium, was a football stadium in Wembley, a suburb of north-west London, standing on the site now occupied by the new Wembley Stadium that opened in 2007.

In March 1998, Arsenal made a bid to buy Wembley in hope of gaining a larger stadium to replace their Highbury ground which had a capacity of less than 40, 000 and was unsuitable for expansion, but the bid was later abandoned in favour of building the 60, 000 capacity Emirates Stadium which was opened in 2006.

Additionally, a new depot has recently opened near Wembley Stadium railway station to compensate for the closure of Marylebone's station sidings and to make way for the new platforms.

Status Quo's final appearance with the Kircher line-up opened the Live Aid charity event at Wembley in July 1985.

LWT only had to use Wembley for four years, as their new purpose built studios were opened in 1972.

On 10 December 1932, the MR opened a branch line north from Wembley Park to Stanmore.

When the UEFA European Football Championship was held at Wembley in 1996, a large staircase was constructed leading down from the 1948 extension and under the newly-built Bobby Moore Bridge, which had opened in 1993.

The station was opened on 10 December 1932 by the Metropolitan Railway ( MR ) on the MR's extension from Wembley Park to Stanmore.

When Maine Road opened, it was the largest club ground in England with a capacity believed to be between 80, 000 and 100, 000, the second largest in the country after Wembley Stadium.

The London Games of 2012 was not be opened and closed at the rebuilt Wembley Stadium, the site of the 1948 Olympic Stadium, but at a new stadium in Stratford.

The national stadium at Wembley was opened in 1923, with the " White Horse Final " being the first FA Cup final to be played there.

They opened for U2 on 14 August 2009 at Wembley Stadium, London, UK and at the Sheffield Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield, UK.

On 31 March 2006 The FA confirmed that the new Wembley would not be opened until 2007.

Logan then was declared a city on 1 January 1981 and the administration building on Wembley Road was opened in February 1981.

However, the plans for Tottenham to move to this site were looking unlikely by October 2001 as expansion now appeared to be the club's preferred option. Over the next few years various other schemes were mooted, including a relocation to the rebuilt Wembley Stadium ( which opened in 2007 ) and even to the stadium being built for the 2012 Olympic Games, which Tottenham had planned to rebuild it as a football-only stadium. In 2003, there was also talk that Tottenham would ground-share with Arsenal at their new Emirates Stadium from its completion in 2006.

Xmal Deutschland also opened for The Stranglers at a concert in Wembley Arena, London.