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Jumpers for Goalposts: Live at Wembley Stadium (2015)

Where the lyrics of Jumpers for Goalposts: Live at Wembley Stadium take you, and where it was really made.

Ed Sheeran became the first solo artist to play Wembley Stadium without a band, and this home video's title comes from street football played with jumpers as goalposts.

Key places

Footage taken at Wembley Stadium (2015)

Recording site Wembley Stadium (1923, demolished) — The home video uses footage taken from Sheeran's x Tour at Wembley Stadium in London. The stadium is the venue where this footage was captured. Google Maps · Apple Maps

How to get there: Jubilee or Metropolitan line to Wembley Park station, then a short walk to the new stadium on the old site.

Three sold-out nights at Wembley (2015)

Live show Wembley Stadium (1923, demolished) — Sheeran played three sold-out nights at Wembley Stadium in London, drawing a crowd of 240,000 people. He was the first solo artist to take the stage there without a band. Google Maps · Apple Maps

How to get there: Jubilee or Metropolitan line to Wembley Park station, then a short walk to the new stadium on the old site.

Album story

Overview

• Jumpers for Goalposts: Live at Wembley Stadium is a home video by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran
• Released on Blu-ray on 13 November 2015
• Uses footage taken from Sheeran's x Tour
• Features hits including 'The A Team', 'Sing' and 'Thinking Out Loud'
• Sir Elton John duets with Sheeran on two songs
• Aside from the live performances, it gives viewers an insight into life backstage on the road with Sheeran

Background

• Footage comes from the x Tour, when Sheeran became the first solo artist to take the stage without a band at Wembley Stadium in London
• He played across three sold-out nights to a crowd of 240,000 people
• The title alludes to street and park football in the UK, where jumpers were placed on the ground and used as goalposts
• The title is also a nod to Sheeran playing at Wembley Stadium, the home of English football
• The video was released on DVD as part of the re-release of Sheeran's 2014 album x
• The CD/DVD combo titled x (Wembley Edition) includes five new tracks on the CD portion

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Artist

Early life

• Edward Christopher Sheeran was born on 17 February 1991 in Halifax, West Yorkshire, and raised in Framlingham, Suffolk.
• He began writing songs around the age of eleven and learned guitar at that age.
• He studied at the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford before leaving to support Just Jack.
• He released the EP No.5 Collaborations Project independently in January 2011 and signed with Asylum Records the same year.

Career

• His debut album + (2011) topped the UK Albums Chart and featured the hit "The A Team".
• × (2014) won the Brit Award for British Album of the Year and was the second-best-selling album worldwide of 2015.
• ÷ (2017) became the best-selling album worldwide of 2017, and he was named Global Recording Artist of the Year by the IFPI.
• He has sold 200 million records worldwide and has won four Grammy Awards.
• He founded the label Gingerbread Man Records and released albums including = (2021), − (2023) and Play (2025).

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Blu-ray release on 13 November 2015
• Footage taken from Sheeran's x Tour, when he became the first solo artist to take the stage without a band at Wembley Stadium in London
• Three sold-out nights at Wembley Stadium drew a crowd of 240,000 people
• Hits such as 'The A Team', 'Sing' and 'Thinking Out Loud' are performed on the video
• Sir Elton John duets with Sheeran on two songs

Records

• Released on DVD as part of the re-release of Sheeran's 2014 album x
• The CD/DVD combo x (Wembley Edition) includes five new tracks on the CD portion
• Total audience across the three nights: 240,000 people

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The title alludes to street and park football in the UK, where jumpers were placed on the ground and used as goalposts.
• Sheeran played the Wembley concerts as a nod to the stadium being the home of English football.
• Sir Elton John joins Sheeran for duets on two of the songs in the video.
• The CD/DVD x (Wembley Edition) adds five new tracks on the CD portion.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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