Wembley Stadium will welcome roughly 1 ½ million football and rugby fans each year, but it will also have important roles as the country’s leading venue for music concerts and will allow the UK to bid for the greatest events in world sport – from the World Athletics Championship and the Olympic Games to the FIFA World Cup.

Athletics will be hosted on a specially built platform that keeps fans as close as possible to the action for football, rugby and athletics while allowing for uninterrupted views of the events.

An enormous amount of thought has also gone into creating great venue for concerts. The designers have provided a choice of stage locations but for most events the stage is likely to be end on in the western side of the stadium, again bringing fans as close as possible to the stage. This location, the higher roofline of the new stadium and a new purpose-built sound system will all reduce the amount of noise ‘spillage’ from the stadium.

Seats will be demountable to allow for quick rigging for concerts and a clean power supply is built into the stage positions.

The old Wembley Stadium hosted many different events, from a papal visit to a charity cricket event (it was rained off). It is likely that the new Stadium will attract a similarly diverse range of events.