The long-awaited Tottenham Hotspur Stadium has opened in north London, featuring a retractable pitch that can host both Premier League football matches and American football.
Built on the site of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club's former home White Hart Lane, the 62,062-seater stadium designed by Populous will host its first Premier League match tonight.
Along with being the home to Tottenham Hotspur, the multipurpose stadium is the first outside the USA to be designed to host NFL games, with a fully retractable natural turf pitch that can be removed to reveal an artificial playing surface.

"It is a benchmark of how stadiums should be designed," Christopher Lee, managing director of Populous told Dezeen.
"This is a game changer. There is no doubt in my mind that the new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is the best stadium in the world." Photo is by Tottenham Hotspur Football Club
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium's most distinctive feature is the 17,500 capacity South Stand, which is the largest single-tier stand in the UK. It is topped with a glass walkway, where visitors can walk out to touch the cockerel above the stand.
Populous designed the South Stand to help create a "wall of sound" within the stadium and help create a distinctive unique feel to the ground.
"We wanted to create a seating bowl that had identity, that had character, that wasn't just a symmetrical ubiquitous stadium that you didn't know where you are, didn't know which stand you...