Professional sport occupied a prominent place in public life in the
last century, especially football, which has become the most popular
sport in the whole world, for this purpose sports venues (stadiums)
has been to build and develop to be a cent
er held the sporting events
and accommodate the largest number of audience who follow it, and
to meet the needs of this growing audience and its requirements
(comfort, easy access, protection ......). which form a challenge for
designers and structural engineers to design a stadium that meets
these requirements constitutes urban monument of aesthetic and
constructional and technical. This research deals with football
stadiums and its development through history, the basics of its
design (the basic principles in the design-the speed of unloading
terraced-external factors affecting), the recommendations of FIFA
in the field of design and construction of sports stadiums (matters to
be considered during the design process-location of the stadium) ,
the most important methods of construction used in covering sports
stadiums (Post and beam-goal post structure-cantilever structure -
shellfish concrete- compression/tension ring - tension structures -
air-supported roofs - space frames –retractable roofs) and the
materials used in the coverage, so that it is a simplified manual
covers all aspects of design and construction.
