The main Bucharest stadium, the National Arena, ranks 12th among the most expensive stadiums built in the last ten years in the world. The stadium, with a capacity of 55,000 seats, opened in 2011 after EUR 230 million in investments, which placed it 12th in the study A Blueprint for Successful Stadium Development by KMPG. 

The stadium in Bucharest had a cost of EUR 4,200 per seat, well above the cost of opening other famous stadiums, such as Juventus Stadium, with a cost of EUR 3,000 per seat, or Estadi Cornellá El-Prat, in Barcelona, with EUR 1,530 per seat.

The most expensive arena is Wembley in London, which has 90,000 seats, and a cost of over EUR 10,000 per seat. Second most expensive was another London stadium: Emirates Stadium, 60,300 seats, and a cost of EUR 7,300 per seat.

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