Aviva Stadium: DART, Lansdowne Road and Bath Avenue Plan for EURO 2028

The Aviva Stadium is the only EURO 2028 venue where a rail station shares the building footprint with the ground. Lansdowne Road DART station sits between the West Stand and the East Stand, with platform exits feeding directly onto the stadium's south-west corner. The result is a one-station, one-platform, one-direction matchday plan that is among the simplest in the tournament.

Lansdowne Road is on the DART, Iarnród Éireann's electric coastal route between Howth in the north and Greystones in the south, running through Dublin Connolly and Pearse Street stations. The DART runs every 15 minutes on the regular timetable; a 7-minute matchday headway is expected for EURO 2028 host days based on Iarnród Éireann's existing Aviva matchday practice. From Dublin Connolly to Lansdowne Road is 9 minutes.

Pearse Street station, also on the DART line, is the recommended pre-match alternative for fans coming from the south side of Dublin or staying near Trinity College. The walk from Pearse Street to the stadium is 18 minutes via Pearse Street and Bath Avenue and runs past the Bath Avenue pub corridor — six pubs on or near Bath Avenue make this the de facto pre-match meeting area for Aviva matchdays.

For international arrivals, Dublin Airport connects to the city centre via Aircoach and Dublin Bus routes that drop at the Five Lamps stop, a 12-minute walk to the stadium. The DART does not serve Dublin Airport directly; the Aircoach is the fastest airport-to-stadium option at around 35 minutes total.

Lansdowne Road and the surrounding Ballsbridge area are residential, and Dublin City Council is expected to enforce a vehicle exclusion zone around the stadium from 3 hours before kickoff, in line with Aviva matchday practice. The pre-match pedestrian flow moves north-to-south along Lansdowne Road and Shelbourne Road; post-match it switches to one-way outbound back toward Pearse Street and Bath Avenue.

Sandymount Strand, the long flat beach about 12 minutes east of the stadium, is the recommended quiet-spot for fans who want to walk away from the immediate crowd after the final whistle. The Sandymount DART station is one stop south of Lansdowne Road and the walk back along the beach to the city is one of the better post-match strolls at the tournament.

UEFA tournaments have historically opened turnstiles two hours before kickoff, with the same window expected at EURO 2028 fixtures. The Aviva accessibility entrance is on Lansdowne Road, with step-free access from the DART station via the south-west platform exit.