But stadium sponsorship money is not shared, so selling suites, naming rights and sections of a stadium to corporations is one of the ways a team can bolster its own revenues and stay competitive.
In Ralph Myers's set designs, a section of a sports stadium stretches up to the flies, sporadically dotted with trembling courtiers, dancing girls, cleaners, a desultory heap of body bags or withered floral tributes.
In August 2014, Uefa ordered Feyenoord to close a section of their stadium for a European game and pay a €45,000 fine after their Champions League match against Besiktas was marred by racist chants and the throwing of missiles.
Uefa sanctioned fans' racist behaviour by closing a section of their stadium at a Champions League play-off last season.
And at MetLife's section of the stadium, a statue of Lucy Van Pelt trying to throw a pass.
During the match a riled Defour, fed up of the goading, responded by belting the ball deliberately into a home fans' section of the stadium, earning a sending off.
The next one caromed off a concrete wall beneath the batter's eye, and the third one shot off Alex Rodriguez's bat with such authority and conviction that the Royals' left fielder, Alex Gordon, did not even look up to follow the flight path as it soared above a waterfall and into a section of Kauffman Stadium previously deemed safe for human occupation.
According to some reports, a block of cement from a section of the stadium which was undergoing construction hit Ebossé in the head causing severe cranial trauma.
England fans were seen fleeing a section of the stadium after they were charged by group of what appeared to be Russia fans, some of them wearing balaclavas, who had set off fireworks and punched through a line of stewards.
One sign in the Greek section of the stadium featured a picture of the European Championship cup that will go to the winner of the tournament, and the words: "You can have our billions — but not the trophy".
