so Russian officials added an extra stand of bleachers. Sounds fine – until you realize the seats are outside the stadium. The makeshift addition satisfies FIFA, but it remains to be seen if ...

Over the next four weeks, 32 nations will meet in 11 cities across Russia to compete for the 2018 World ... of 35,000 capacity for hosting games. In order to add roughly 8,000 seats to the stadium, ...

but it had only 27,000 seats. This is a problem, as FIFA’s “Stadium Requirements Handbook” told Russia how many seats needed to be available, and the Ekaterinburg Arena was short.

Stadium architects in Russia needed to add seats to the 60-year-old Ekaterinburg Arena to meet FIFA's minimum seating capacity ahead of the region's first World Cup match on June 15 between Egypt ...

World Cup venues are required to have a capacity of at least 35,000 seats, which meant that one Russian stadium had to go through a drastic renovation to meet the requirement. And it couldn't look ...

In the latest chapter of the long, sordid book regarding World Cup and Olympic host sites, Russia has found a way to comply with FIFA guidelines in a creative — and also nerve-inflaming — fashion.

Russia plans to issue ... looking sections built outside of the stadium. If you can't reach the 35,000 capacity rule for the #WorldCup, just extend the seating outside like the Ekaterinburg ...

World Cup venues are required to have a capacity of at least 35,000 seats, which meant that one Russian stadium had to go through a drastic renovation to meet the requirement. And it couldn't look ...

Over the next four weeks, 32 nations will meet in 11 cities across Russia to compete for ... In order to add roughly 8,000 seats to the stadium, the World Cup construction team got a little ...