The greenest stadiums in the world, including Italy
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The green rectangle is always greener. Because the world of football is realizing (finally) that it can lead by example in the fight against climate change. Starting from stadiums, for a long time cathedrals of waste and pollution. Like in Qatar, where for the last World Cup, maintaining an average temperature of 20 degrees (less than double the outside temperature) within 8 facilities within a 54-kilometre radius of Doha had a significant cost in terms of CO emissions2.
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And that was a sudden step backwards in the gradual “green” transition process of western stadiums. What is there and it shows, starting with England. Some of the most virtuous examples are concentrated in the United Kingdom: the home of Liverpoolwhich according to the “Football Sustainability Index 2023” is the club most attentive to sustainability among those playing in the main five European leagues, is for example Anfieldwhere – as a result of the “The Red Way” project, the emissions of CO2 are close to zero (thanks to renewables) and the circular economy (no waste in landfills, no plastic) is a ‘mantra’. What’s more: fruit and vegetables produced from a zero kilometer garden are consumed inside the stadium.
Also the management of the applause Tottenham Hotspur Stadium: the club, among the first to join the “Sports for Climate Action Framework“, is at the forefront in the use of clean energy, sustainable transport (77% of supporters reach the stadium by bicycle or public transport), reduction in the use of plastic and disposables, waste management, water efficiency and plant-based food options with low carbon emissions.And it doesn’t stop there: it focuses strongly onengagement of his community and planting trees around the stadium, but also in the rest of the UK and in East Africa.
100% separate collection also a Stamford Bridgethe Chelsea stadium, while at theEmirates Stadium, the home of Arsenal’s London cousins, thanks to an agreement with Octopus Energy, renewable electricity will fully cover the needs of each single match. It is obtained from photovoltaics and – listen, listen – from an anaerobic biogas digester. For a saving of 3.32 million kg of CO2 the year.
And after all, England is strongly aiming for a full green conversion: Manchester, already a deeply industrial city, aims to become a zero-emission city by 2038. City is playing at the Etihad Stadium, whose recycling plant saves 83% of water. The City Football Academy, the sports center for the youth and first team, is surrounded by more than 30 hectares of wasteland transformed into flower fields, with an eye to local biodiversity. To the neighbor Old Traffordhome of Manchester United, an eco-composting plant encourages the recycling of leftover food from fans.
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It’s Italy? Of course, the country is lagging behind, except for a few virtuous cases, as also admitted by the Minister of Sport, Andrea Abodi, underlining how “on the subject of stadiums in the last 30 years we have managed to do little, too little, unbearably”.
Also for this reason our “Captains for the climate” petition (which can be signed on Change.org and which continues to gather excellent adhesions and subscriptions) can help to give a fundamental impetus to a conversion that is still too slow.
Among the most virtuous clubs there is undoubtedly Udinese, with its Dacia Arena which uses – thanks to a partnership with Bluenergy – exclusively energy from renewable sources. to build theAllianz Stadium of Turin, however, the Juventus it started from the recovery and reuse of materials from the old Delle Alpi and other construction sites, a zero-kilometer operation that limited disposal problems. Today all the electricity used comes from renewable sources, the LED technology devices guarantee high performance in terms of energy saving, luminous efficiency, duration and sustainability.
In Spain the case of Real Betis is virtuous Sevillewhich it is no coincidence that he has christened his project “Forever Green” and that for the pitch of the Villamarin and secondary plants practice “fertigation”: during irrigation the lawns receive all the fertilizers, avoiding the use of machines. Real Madrid also focuses on sustainability: the new one Bernabeuwhich will be inaugurated in December, will have zero emissions and will have a retractable field, stored underground with controlled temperature and lighting.
In France, on the other hand, it is the Nice to tell a beautiful story of sustainability: yours Allianz Riviera, designed by architect Jean-Michel Wilmott, is part of the city’s “Energy Climate Plan”: it is made with recyclable materials, has 4,000 solar panels and even uses geothermal energy. Again: a transparent membrane of pre-compressed polyvinyl fluoride optimizes lighting, avoiding possible waste.
But in pole position, in this special ranking of the most sustainable stadiums in Europe, there is undoubtedly the Europa-Park Stadion of Freiburg, inaugurated in 2021: on its roof a photovoltaic system with 6,000 panels developed over 15,000 square meters. For a production of approximately 2.3 million kWh of energy per year.
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There are even more – 10,000 to be exact on an area of 40,000 square meters – the solar panels that cover the roof of the Turk Telekom Stadium of Istanbul, where the Turks play Galatasaray. The plant cost just over two million euros, of course, but today it is able to supply electricity to two thousand families, with savings – in terms of CO emissions2 – of 3,250 tons per year. In a nutshell, it is as if 200,000 trees were saved in 25 years.
Returning to Germany, the focus is on geothermal energy Wwk Arena, where Augsburg plays. Werder plays home matches at the Weser Stadion of Bremen, which satisfies a large part of its energy needs with its 200,000 solar cells, for an indicative production of 800,000 kW/h per year.
There Rhein-Neckar-Arenahome of Hoffenheim, has instead become the Pre-Zero Arena: a record too, for the first time a football stadium bears the name of a green waste disposal company. And it is certainly not a facade operation: the stadium embraces the logic of “zero waste”, starting – just think – from the grass cut from the lawn, from which the tickets for the matches are created.
And in short, there are many clubs that focus, today more than ever, on cutting-edge and sustainable stadiums. And to think that in the beginning it was an English team that was certainly not famous, the Forest Green Rovers, which still likes to define itself as the “World’s Greenest Football Club”: the team, which carries out a “vegan” philosophy with conviction, plays in the third division and plays in the small town of Nailsworth. That’s right, certain stories are born where you least expect it: the stadium, the The New Lawnis already a ‘green’ facility (the club has received the “carbon neutral” certificate), waiting for the project of the new stadium to take shape, the Eco Park, the first entirely made of wood, on whose design the architects studio led by Zaha Hadid, a structure that will be located in an eco-park of 400 thousand square meters.
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