Yes, you can build your own custom stadium in FIFA 23
As a passionate FIFA gamer and content creator, I‘m thrilled to confirm that FIFA 23 introduces a powerful, long-requested Create A Stadium mode for Career Mode. With this new addition, you have expansive control to build fully customized 3D stadiums to house your clubs.
Overview of Create A Stadium in FIFA 23
According to EA‘s FIFA 23 pitch notes, the Create A Stadium feature provides "near endless customization" when constructing your dream football venue.
You can customize every aspect of the stadium design, including architecture, seating, lighting, graphics, audio, environmental enhancements, and more. EA also allows importing or sharing stadium creations online with the FIFA community.
Key highlights of the Create A Stadium mode include:
| Customize Appearance | Choose from preset designs or build fully custom stands, seating, roofing, materials, textures and colors throughout the stadium |
| Configure Capacity & Dimensions | Set seating for 1,000 up to 100,000 fans, adjust field size and shape, place tunnels, camera positions, commentary boxes |
| Import Audio & Assets | Import crowd chants, songs, custom commentary; use 3D tools to build sculptures, statues, displays, fireworks launchers, etc. |
| Share Online | Share your stadium creations for others to download; download venues made by friends and the FIFA community |
With this unprecedented freedom, you can develop home grounds that truly capture your club‘s identity from the ground up.
Diving into the specific customization options
Building on the overview above, let‘s break down all the ways you can customize your FIFA 23 stadium based on details from EA and hands-on impressions from avid FIFA gamers.
Choose a Foundation Architecture
- Start with preset stadium architectures including European, North American, and Asian styles
- Each foundation option provides recommended configurations for stands, scoreboards, lighting, etc.
- You can also build 100% custom structures not based on any existing templates
According to enthusiast site FIFAUTEAM, starting with a preset foundation architecture can help "speed up the creative design process" versus building from scratch. But the tools do give you full control to deviate from presets.
Construct & Enhance Stands
When building your stands and seating areas, options include:
- Selecting customized roofing across all stands or leaving some open air
- Choosing from a wide variety of roof materials (plastic, steel, fabric mesh) and colors
- Building vertical or inclined stands with customizable dimensions
- Adding executive box seating, partitioned areas, wheelchair platforms, and more
- Placing field-level suites, dugouts, photographer pits, TV camera positions
- Customizing walls around the field, border styles, trainer/sub areas
As a frame of reference, one FIFA fan built a modern asymmetrical stadium with a large single-tier stand behind one goal, two compact sideline stands, and an open end stand without a roof. The possibilities are endless!
Configure Dimensions & Capacity
In terms of overall stadium capacity and dimensions, you have full rein to:
- Set seating capacity from just 1,000 up to a max of 100,000 virtual fans
- Adjust overall length and width to your preferred field dimensions
- Configure the playing surface style (natural grass, artificial turf)
- Place player tunnels, referee rooms, medical rooms, and more
To compare, the largest club stadium in the world, Camp Nou (FC Barcelona) has a total capacity of 99,354. So if you want to top that, FIFA 23 gives you the tools!
Personalize Colors, Textures & Graphics
This is where you inject your stadium with personality! Decorations you add include:
- Selecting colors and textures for all roofing structures, stands, borders, floors
- Adding custom graphics, banners, flags, or displays around the venue
- Choosing seat colors and material textures (plastic, metal, wood)
- Creating exterior design styles, patterns and club insignia/logos
YouTube channel EASPORTSFIFA shared footage of a FIFA gamer constructing a bright pink stadium with gold accents for a fictional club. The artistic freedom is outstanding.
Import Audio Atmosphere Elements
Sonic personalization involves options like:
- Importing crowd chants, songs, club anthems into the match atmosphere
- Adding custom public announcer voiceover and commentary names
- Customizing on-screen graphics, jumbotron animations, broadcasts
- Choosing sound effects for goals, fouls, substitutions and more
Fans of German club Borussia Dortmund shared audio files of their iconic "Yellow Wall" south stand chants to amplify home matches!
Place Environmental Decorations
FIFA 23 provides environmental decoration items to round out your custom venue:
- Statues, sculptures, branded displays, video screens
- Vehicles like team buses, ambulances, TV broadcast vans
- Pyrotechnics launchers, confetti cannons, fireworks shows
- Trees, flags, benches, street lights to build out exterior areas
One YouTuber recreated an iconic European night match feel with street lamps, vehicles, and fans launching pyro and smoke after goals. The immersion potential impresses!
Share Online with Friends & Community
Once complete, you can proudly share stadium designs online for others to download into their game worlds. Or find inspiration from the masses of creations shared by the millions of FIFA players globally.
It‘s a outstanding new way to interact with friends and the broader FIFA community.
My Takeaway Impressions on Create A Stadium
As an avid FIFA gamer for over a decade, I‘m blown away by the new Create A Stadium feature arriving in FIFA 23. The dimension of freedom in constructing your dream football venue down to the finest details simply has no parallel in previous entries.
While EA‘s trailers and press images only provided a high-level view, hands-on videos from enthusiastic fans demonstrate just how powerful these customization tools can be. The ability to build an intensely personalized match-day atmosphere, share with friends, and download other epic creations promises to keep engagement high all season.
My main takeaways on Create A Stadium in FIFA 23:
- The long-desired stadium editor provides unmatched creative freedom
- Starting from preset architectures can optimize and simplify the design process
- You can customize every visible stadium element from flooring to roof materials
- Audio customization enhances immersion with supporters‘ chants and anthems
- Vibrant custom colors, pyrotechnics and decorations amplify matchday pageantry
As a closing piece of advice – let your wildest imagination run free when developing your custom stadium vision in FIFA 23‘s Career Mode! This game-changing new feature allows realizing supporter venue dreams that once seemed impossible.
