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Club: Daegu FC

Inauguration: 2001

Seats: 68,000

Estadio Monumental David Arellano is a multi-use stadium in Santiago, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 62,500. It was built in 1989. Its only tenant is soccer club Colo-Colo.

Kingston Communications Stadium or KC Stadium is a new facility for the city of Hull hosting football, rugby league and a series of pop concerts. It is named after the stadium’s sponsors, Kingston Communications.

The stadium is home to Hull City A.F.C. (football) and Hull FC (rugby league), as well as hosting musical acts such as Sir Elton John, Bryan Adams and R.E.M. The seat colours are predominantly black with a white and amber band around the stadium and the word Hull depicted in amber and white. These colours being chosen to remain neutral to the black and white of Hull FC and the amber and black of Hull City. It is the first stadium in England to be built in a parkland setting.

The stadium has an all-seating capacity of 25,504, being designed as a single tier, asymmetrical bowl of approximately 20,000 seats with a second upper tier to the West Stand of over 5,000 seats.

Future expansion to around 35,000 is possible, either by building-up the North, East and South stands or the addition of a second tier on the East Stand. Work could start within months, though this would ultimately depend on a casino and hotel complex being built nearby to finance the work.

The stadium is owned by Hull City Council and run by the Stadium Management Company, headed by Adam Pearson. Also incorporated in the Stadium complex is the 1,500 seat Gemtec Arena sports arena (previously known as the Vulcan Arena), skate park, two multi-use all weather pitches, and a community learning zone, complete with classrooms, health & fitness suite, cyber cafe and library. In 2005 Gemtec Document Network replaced Vulcan Windows as the sponsors of the arena.

Construction of the stadium took 14 months to complete and the total project cost was approximately £44 million. The stadium opened its doors on Wednesday December 18, 2002 and Hull City beat Sunderland A.F.C. 1-0 in a friendly to mark the occasion.

The KC Stadium has become a regular venue for international rugby league, and has hosted Great Britain matches in both the Tri-Nations and the Ashes.

In a 2005 poll, carried out by property consultants Drivers Jonas and decided by football fans from across the country, the KC Stadium was judged to have the best access and facilities in the country, although this poll did not include some of the more recent stadiums

The KC Stadium has staged Hull’s recent climb throughout the English league. It first hosted the club’s home games during the second half of the 2002-03 season and the Tigers regularly attracted some of the best attendances outside the Premiership but the level of support was not matched by on-field performances. Hull finished 13th in their first season at the KC Stadium, but in 2003-04 (their first full season at the new ground) the Tigers won promotion as Division Three runners-up to secure their place in the newly-named League One (previously Division Two). Another promotion, again as runners-up, followed in 2004-05 and the KC Stadium is currently hosting Championship football. On its opening, the KC Stadium’s visitors included the likes of Boston United and Kidderminster Harriers. Just three years later, the likes of Leeds United and Wolverhampton Wanderers are being entertained there.

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Staples Center is a multipurpose sports arena in Downtown Los Angeles, California at the Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment District. It is located next to the Los Angeles Convention Center complex. Staples Center was financed privately at a cost of $375 million USD and is named for the Staples office-supply company, one of the center’s corporate sponsors that paid for naming rights.

Staples Center opened on October 17, 1999, and immediately won recognition, becoming a two-time winner of the PollStar-CIC Arena of the Year award. It has gained fame as the home of the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers of the NBA, the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA, the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL, and the Los Angeles Avengers of the AFL. It is the only arena that is home to five professional sports franchises.

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Boone Pickens Stadium, formerly known as Lewis Field, is home to the Oklahoma State University college football program. Boone Pickens Stadium, the home of Oklahoma State Football, is a far cry from what the student body expected when they were renaming the field before the 1914 football season. Lewis Field, much like the Cowboy football program, was left largely neglected and enjoyed only modest renovations throughout its near-century of existence. However, this all changed in recent history. With the resurgence of Cowboy football sparked by the 2001 16-13 victory over Oklahoma in the annual Bedlam game and the subsequent 2002 Houston Bowl season, interest soon returned to a major overhaul of Lewis Field. An ambitious fund-raising project for the Lewis Field renovation dubbed “The Next Level” became the flagship efforts of the Oklahoma State athletic department, and has been a rousing success thanks in large part to the philanthrophy of Boone Pickens.

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Telstra Dome is a stadium in the developing Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Australia, that caters for both sporting and entertainment events. The stadium opened on 9th March 2000, as Colonial Stadium. The name was changed to Telstra Dome on 1st October 2002 when the telecommunications company Telstra acquired the naming rights.

The stadium was developed as a replacement for Waverley Park. The Seven Network previously owned the stadium, but on 21st June, 2006 sold its interests to James Fielding Funds Management for $AUD 330 million.[1] In 2020 the network was meant to hand the stadium to the AFL.

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Carter-Finley Stadium was opened in 1966 as home to the North Carolina State University Wolfpack football team. The stadium replaced the obsolete on-campus Riddick Stadium and was originally named Carter Stadium in honor of Harry C. & Wilbert J. “Nick” Carter, both graduates of the university. They were major contributors to the original building of the stadium. The name of Albert E. Finley, another major contributor to the University, was added later. While located on University land, the stadium is a few miles to the west of the academic campus on Trinity Road just off of Hillsborough Street. The capacity is approximately 57,500 seats.

Prior to the 2001 season, the university began a program of modernization of Carter-Finley. The southern endzone was enclosed with seats, and the state-of-the-art Murphy Center (named for Wendell Murphy) was built. Following the 2004-2005 football season, Carter-Finley was again expanded with the completion of the “Vaughn Towers”, a complex of luxury boxes, club seats, and media facilities which opened for the 2005-2006 football season.

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The Cotton Bowl is a stadium which opened in 1932. It is located in Fair Park, site of the State Fair in Dallas, Texas, USA. It has a natural grass surface and a capacity of 68,252. The name is a pun on “cotton boll”.

The stadium has been home to many football teams over the years, including: SMU Mustangs (NCAA), Dallas Cowboys (NFL; 1960-1970), Dallas Texans (NFL) (1952), Kansas City Chiefs (as the Dallas Texans) (AFL; 1960-1962), the Dallas Tornado (NASL; 1967-1968), and FC Dallas (as the Dallas Burn before 2005) (Major League Soccer; 1996-2002, 2004-2005). It was also the site of some games in the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

The Cotton Bowl also hosts the annual Cotton Bowl Classic college football bowl game, for which the stadium is named.

Also, the annual Texas-Oklahoma college football game, called “The Red River Rivalry”, is played here during the State Fair of Texas, instead of a campus site. Ticket sales are equally divided between the two schools. However, the schools have announced plans to discontinue playing the game at the Cotton Bowl after 2007, citing major problems with the aging facility, and to instead move the game to a traditional home-and-away series (the schools have not expressed interest in moving the game to either Texas Stadium or the Dallas Cowboys’ new stadium once it opens, citing the State Fair as the chief reason for holding the game in Dallas).

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Mahama Sina Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Antananarivo, Madagascar. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 22,000.

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Elland Road is the home stadium of the football team Leeds United. It has recently been sold by the club in a 25-year sale-lease back deal with a commercial buy-back provision for when the club’s finances improve.

The most recent stand at Elland Road is the East Stand, a huge cantilever structure which was completed during the 1992-93 season and holds 17,000 seated spectators, the largest such cantilever in the world. The Don Revie Stand (also known as the Kop terrace) was opened at the start of the 1994-95 season, holding just under 7,000 seated spectators, after a refurbishment scheme. It was named after Don Revie, the club’s most successful manager of all time. The South Stand (previously known as the ’scratching shed’) was built in 1971 and until 1993 the lower tier accommodated standing spectators, but this section of terracing was replaced by seating to comply with the requirements of the Taylor Report.

Capacity: 40,000 seats

Inauguration: 1904

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