Vietnam Are Building The Biggest, Most Beautiful Stadium the World Might Have Ever Seen

The Trong Dong Stadium Could Become the Most Beautiful Football Stadium in the World...

Football’s list of iconic football grounds is seemingly endless; the Maracana, Wembley, the Santiago Bernabeu, the Nou Camp, and countless more all boast tales of woe and wonder, and you could watch highlight reels games at just one of those stadiums until you’re old and grey.

One part of the world that is severely under-represented in the world of football grounds is Asia. Though the continent boasts excellent sporting facilities and a handful of outstanding Olympic stadiums, football has never been a priority sport there, and thus building an ultra-modern, world-renowned facility wasn’t top of anyone’s priority list.

However, Vietnam is about to change all that. The Southeast Asian nation broke ground on their newest stadium development back in April, and upon its completion in what is rumoured to be less than two years from now, they will have constructed the largest football stadium in the entire world, and quite possibly the most striking.

Vietnam has broken ground on the world's largest football stadium. Inspired by the country's ancient bronze drums, Trong Dong Stadium is set to rise on the outskirts of Hanoi and will be able to host a staggering 135,000 spectators – making it the biggest stadium on the planet by… pic.twitter.com/YQ8D9ma73n

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Global Reach

Vietnam and its neighbours have for a long time been considered a part of the world where football is very much out of the limelight. While the game is still widely followed and popular, high-quality league teams and players are few and far between due to the lack of investment in the grassroots game and poor infrastructure at a professional level.

Vietnam still boasts significant grounds; the Can Tho Stadium can seat up to 60,000, while the 40,000-capacity My Dinh Stadium plays host to all of the Vietnam national teams' football games, but aside from these, every other footballing arena can’t hold anymore than 30,000 people.

The Trong Dong project is set to change all of that. With the site of the ground located in southeast Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital city, the ground will be perfectly placed to the maximum possible number of visitors, and given the astonishing design it is rumoured to have when finished, these visitors won’t need much persuading.

That’s because the designers have opted to make the exterior of the stadium 100% gold. Or at least resemble that - I realise that coating an entire football stadium in gold might be fairly logistically challenging.

Going off the 3D models of the stadium available online, the Trong Dong is going to shine brighter than the midday sun, and with its wide base, narrow middle and ever-widening top, it looks to the naked eye as if someone has turned a giant golden yo-yo on its side and snipped off the string. Based on an ancient bronze drum design, it is both futuristic and historic at the same time

The golden walls of the stadium are embossed with abstract shapes and figures, and the area around the stadium will also undergo significant works in a huge regeneration project, upgrading countless acres off the outskirts of Hanoi.

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Most impressive, though, is the projected size of the stadium. More than twice the size of the country’s current largest ground by capacity, reports suggest that the Trong Dong will be able to hold an eye-watering 135,000 fans when full.

To put into context how utterly ludicrous that number is, Wembley can hold a maximum of 90,000, the Camp Nou will be able to hold 105,000 once renovated, and the Maracana, although it once held nearly 180,000 due to a lack of seating, now only fits around 75,000.

The current largest football stadium in the world is the Rungrado 1st of May Stadium, located in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang – drawing a shade over 113,000 on a good day, its continental counterpart will overshoot that estimate by more than 20,000, which itself is the capacity of most Championship stadiums - a truly remarkable feat of engineering.

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🏟ملعب Trong Dong Stadium في فيتنام
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One final notable fact about the Trong Dong is that it is far from an outlier – it is simply spearheading a Vietnam-wide foray into the footballing mainstream and is accompanied by two other stadiums also in construction: the 60,000-seater PVF stadium has now moved onto roof construction, while plans to build the 70,000-capacity Pach Chiec stadium in Ho-Chi Minh have been recently approved.

Clearly, the Vietnam FA have decided it’s time to start taking things seriously, and naturally, improved youth and training facilities will accompany these swanky new stadiums in order to produce teams worthy of filling them.

One of the best-looking stadium models produced in recent years, and insurpassable in terms of ambition, the Trong Dong Stadium is one of the most exciting projects in football right now. Though opening day in 2028 may be a tad too optimistic, there is no doubt that one day soon, Vietnamese football will announce itself on the global stage in the biggest possible way - no pun intended.