{"id":4953,"date":"2026-04-16T12:34:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=4953"},"modified":"2026-04-16T12:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:34:52","slug":"top-european-football-club-release-first-images-after-devastating-stadium-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=4953","title":{"rendered":"Top European football club release first images after devastating stadium fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><!--$--><\/p>\n<p><h2>The condition of the stadium&#8217;s dressing rooms were described as &#8216;a total loss.&#8217;<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose drop-cap \">\n<p>Swiss league champions FC Basel have released a series of images after a fire seriously damaged the stadium&#8217;s changing rooms. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>St. Jakob-Park, the 38,000 seater football ground in the historic European city, was affected by a fire on Saturday (10 April), causing the team&#8217;s game versus FC Thun to be postponed. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>For the first time since reports of the fire began to circulate, FC Basel have released images of the fire damage, adding they intended: \u201cto make the extent of the destruction transparent.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>The club&#8217;s post regarding the fire also details they are yet to determine the cause.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Per reports, quoted by The Sun, the majority of the damage was limited to the stadium&#8217;s sauna area, and &#8220;smoke and soot from the blaze went on to affect the nearby dressing room, showers, physiotherapy area and coach&#8217;s offices among other facilities, which were described in the statement as &#8216;a total loss.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Basel are now working to ensure the stadium is in an acceptable condition to host thier final three home matches of the 2025\/26 season. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><\/div>\n<p>#Top #European #football #club #release #images #devastating #stadium #fire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The condition of the stadium&#8217;s dressing rooms were described as &#8216;a total loss.&#8217; Swiss league champions FC Basel have released a series of images after a fire seriously damaged the stadium&#8217;s changing rooms. St. Jakob-Park, the 38,000 seater football ground in the historic European city, was affected by a fire on Saturday (10 April), causing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1765,2680,279,370,1418,5130,1440,1422,1452,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-4953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-club","9":"tag-devastating","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-fire","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-images","14":"tag-release","15":"tag-sport","16":"tag-stadium","17":"tag-top"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}