TOTTENHAM Hotspur host Manchester United on Sunday in what will be their last match at White Hart Lane, their north London home since 1899.
While the final game is sure to evoke strong emotions from the Spurs faithful, the club can be excited about what is to come.
Sportsmail looks at 20 of the best features the new stadium has to offer.
The ground will be the largest capacity club football stadium in London. The total capacity will be 61,559 and it will see the single-tier south stand holding 17,500 spectators.
The improved seating layout meant that they had to increase seating in some areas of the stadium.
Holding 17,500 fans, the seating bowl has been arranged to put fans closer to the action than at any other stadium in the UK.
The front row will be only five metres away from the touchline, and the stand will ‘generate a wall of sound’ to boost the atmosphere. It’s been inspired by Borussia Dortmund’s Yellow Wall.
The stadium will have a sculpted appearance. It will wrap and fold its way around the pitch before reaching the home end, where you’ll find a glass facade starts to arch upwards to reveal the single tier home stand.
The football is not all that will be hosted here. There is a 10-year agreement to play at least two regular NFL season matches, along with hosting concerts and a range of other events.
The stadium has customised designs for the NFL, with a dedicated entrance on the east side, dressing rooms and media facilities.
The arena is making sure that they can host all these different events by protecting the playing surfaces. This includes a retractable grass field with a second artificial surface underneath.
The pitch will be bigger than the one the players were used to at White Hart Lane. It will be 105m by 68m, which is much larger than the Lane’s 100.1m by 67m.
This will give a focal point for the supporters and the community. It will offer a variety of activity zones and spaces for fan-themed events and also those run by the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation.
There is a skywalk on offer for fans and the general public. It will see people climb the outside of the building, which is up to 40 metres high.
There are a lot of premium options available for the fans, albeit slightly pricey.
Premium packages include heated seats, a USB charging port and access to the lounges.
There are even loges which allow guests a private suite and ‘super loge suites’, which are similar but include Michelin star dining.
Tickets for the ‘Tunnel Club’ are only available as a pair at £19,000 per season, but will give guests the chance to glimpse the players before and after the game.
The glass-walled restaurant and bar area will give fans a behind-the-scenes view of the Players’ Tunnel.
The pitch-side seats are as close as you can get, located behind the home team’s dugout.
One of the premium lounges is the Sky Lounge. Guests will get to enjoy the panoramic views across London from the highest point available in the stadium.
It will allow for informal dining with varied and flexible meal choices, and the seats will be at the front of the upper tier on the halfway line.
The H Club is described as ‘the best Members’ Club available’. This allows guests to have a Michelin-star dining experience, which even includes a cheese waiter and sommelier.
They will also get the chance to dine with ‘club legends’ on the players’ table.
The stadium will hold the longest general admission bar in the UK, measured at 86.8 metres long. The bar will even include self-serve beer pumps to help cut the queues.
The arena will hold the world’s first stadium micro-brewery. Its delivery system will mean that staff can pour 10,000 pints a minute and the brewery is allowing for the production of one million pints of craft beer a year.
The stadium will also have an in-house bakery. It will make artisan breads and pastries for all of the food outlets in the stadium, from general admission areas to the boxes.
The main entrance will give a glimpse of life within the stadium. It has been designed to create a link and a sense of arrival from the station and new Public Square, as part of a regeneration to the west of the High Road.
At the south end there is a five-storey-high glass atrium to give a new focus for the home supporters, including a new open food court. There will also be four big screens in each of the corners of the stadium.
Seats have got bigger and so has the amount of legroom fans will get. The legroom will vary but there will be a minimum of 780millimetres in the south stand, 800mm in the north stand upper and 858mm in the north stand upper.
The size of seats will be a minimum of 470mm, a lot bigger when compared with White Hart Lane’s 455-460mm.
The stadium even has an app to help bring the clubs new stadium to life. The app is free and gives users a 360 degree view of the inner bowl of the stadium – giving fans a look at their new home before it’s been completed.
For those that will want to go and see what the new stadium is like, there will be 3,000 seats for away fans in the north east corner of the ground
There is also the option to vary the allocations depending on the requirements of different domestic and European competition.
SOURCE: DAILYMAIL
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