Tsirion Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Limassol, Cyprus. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of AEL Limassol, Apollon Limassol and Aris Limassol. In the past, especially in 1990s, it was used as a home for Cyprus national football team. The stadium holds 13,152 people and was built in 1975.
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Workers Stadium (Chinese: 工人体育场) is a multi-purpose stadium in Beijing, China. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium was built in 1959 and holds 72,000.
It was the main venue for the 1990 Asian Games, where the opening and closing ceremonies were held. It is also the home stadium for the Beijing Hyundai soccer team.
For the 2008 Summer Olympics it will host the football quarter-finals and semi-finals.
The Workers Indoor Arena is nearby to the west.
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Molineux stadium is the home ground of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C., who are currently members of the Football League Championship.
The stadium is located within a mile of Wolverhampton city centre, just outside the ring road, and is a prominent building both because of its size and because many parts of the stands are decorated in gold, to go with the team’s colour of gold. It consists of four stands, the Steve Bull stand (formerly the John Ireland stand), the Jack Harris stand, the Stan Cullis stand and the Billy Wright stand.
In front of the Billy Wright stand is a statue of the player, who made 105 appearances for England, 90 of them as captain. In front of the Stan Cullis stand is a statue of the former player, captain and manager who led the team during their most successful era.
The total seated capacity of the ground is approximately 28,525 although this has been expanded in recent seasons by the building of a temporary stand which provides capacity for another 900 fans, bringing the total upto 29,425. In the days before the Taylor Report, which required British football stadia to provide seating for all those attending, the ground had a capacity of over 60,000; the record attendance for a match at the ground is 61,315 for a game against Liverpool F.C. on 11 February 1939.
On June 24, 2003, Molineux also became Wolverhampton’s biggest live venue, with Bon Jovi performing there in front of 34,000 people.
Molineux has hosted England internationals. The first was a 6-1 win over Ireland on March 7, 1891 (the same day England also beat Wales 4-1 at Sunderland’s ground). England again beat Ireland, this time 4-0, on February 14, 1903 and lost to Wales 2-1 on February 5, 1936. The last was a 5-2 defeat of Denmark in a 1958 World Cup qualifier on December 5, 1956. In 2005, Molineux hosted some of the European Youth Championship Qualifying matches, which featured Mark Davies.
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The Sydney Football Stadium (SFS) was built in 1988 to be the premium “rectangular field” in Sydney, Australia. Its primary use was for rugby league, but football (soccer) and rugby union also used the ground for major matches, and later for domestic competition.
Prior to its construction, major events were usually held at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG), which being an Oval field was not ideal for the sports.
The SFS was built in Moore Park, adjacent to the SCG, on the grounds of the former Sydney Sportsground and is owned by the SCG Trust. Its seating capacity is 41,159, although the venue’s official record attendance for a sporting event stands at 43,967, for the 1993 FIFA World Cup Qualifier when Australia played Argentina.
Górnik Zabrze Stadium, Zabrze, POLAND
17722 seats
Seats: 30,000
Clubs: Sahel SC, Zumunta AC, Olympic FC, JS du Tenere
Jamsil Arena is an indoor sporting arena located in Seoul, South Korea. The capacity of the arena is 13,409 and was built in 1985.
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Poljud is a football stadium in the Croatian city of Split. It takes its name from the neighbourhood of Poljud, its original name is “Gradski stadion u Poljudu” (”City Stadium in Poljud”). It is the home of HNK Hajduk Split, one of the top football teams in the country. The stadium currently has a capacity of 35,000.
The nominal capacity was 55,000 when it was built. The stadium was built as major sports centre for the 1979 Mediterranean Games and opened by Josip Broz Tito.
The record attendance was 62,000 in 1982, in football match HNK Hajduk Split versus Dinamo Zagreb, when these two Croatian football teams competed for Championship title.
The stadium also served as popular venue for music events. Some of the most spectacular of those include Yugoslav equivalent of Live Aid in 1985, concerts of Mišo Kovač in 1993 and Marko Perković-Thompson in 2002.
The stadium is affectionately known to the locals as the “Poljudska ljepotica” or “beauty from Poljud”. Poljud is the second largest stadium in Croatia after the Maksimir stadium.
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M&T Bank Stadium is the home to the Baltimore Ravens, Baltimore’s National Football League franchise. Opened in 1998, M&T Bank Stadium is one of the newest and most state-of-the-art stadiums built. M&T Bank Stadium was formerly known as Ravens Stadium, then PSINet Stadium in 1999 after ISP PSINet acquired naming rights. It then reverted back to being called Ravens Stadium in 2002 when PSINet filed for bankruptcy. In 2003 M&T Bank acquired naming rights to the stadium. Two other companies were in the running to be granted naming rights to the stadium; they were reportedly, Nextel and CarMax.
Following the September 2002 death of Baltimore Colts quarterback Johnny Unitas, public sentiment leaned toward renaming the then-sponsorless stadium after the Baltimore icon. However, the Ravens and the Maryland Stadium Authority held firm in their right to negotiate naming rights fees. In the end, a plaza on the stadium’s northwest corner was named “Unitas Plaza”, complete with a bronze statue of the Hall of Famer (in 2003, Towson University in the Baltimore suburbs named their home stadium, where the NCAA Division I-AA Tigers play, after Unitas).
Located in downtown Baltimore, the stadium is immediately adjacent to Oriole Park at Camden Yards, home of the Baltimore Orioles. The stadium is served by the Hamburg Street station of the Baltimore Light Rail.
The stadium served as the home field for the fictional professional football team The Washington Sentinels in the 2000 movie The Replacements with Keanu Reeves and Gene Hackman.
The stadium also serves as an alternate venue for Johns Hopkins University’s popular and dominant men’s lacrosse team, and was the site of the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship in 2003 and 2004. It will again host the lacrosse finals in 2007. Major League Lacrosse’s Baltimore Bayhawks used the stadium as their home during the 2002 season.
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