Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex is a multi-use stadium in Muscat, Oman. It is currently used mostly for football matches and it also has facilities for athletics. The stadium has a capacity of 45,000 people. It is the home stadium of the Omani national football team.
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Seats: 80,000
Clubs: Motela Pemba, Inter Kinshasa
York Park (also known as Aurora Stadium) is the major Australian rules football ground located in the city of Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. In September 2004, Aurora Energy secured the naming rights to the stadium for the next six years. The precinct around the stadium will still be called York Park, but the stadium itself will be referred to as Aurora Stadium until 2010.
It was recently re-developed and has a capacity of around 23,000.
It was originally the home of the North Launceston Football Club. In 2000 it was re-developed as part of the bid to get Australian Football League games to Tasmania. The upgrades include additional seating and grandstands, as well as lights for night games.
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The Ostseestadion is the home stadium of FC Hansa Rostock, a German football club, located in the city of Rostock. It was inaugurated in 1954, and last renovated in 2004. It has a capacity of 30,000 ncluding a standing capacity of 10,000. The stadium holds 26 VIP lodges. At the end of the 1960s a new 700 lux lighting system was added.
The German language Wikipedia has more information on the subject.
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Suncorp Stadium, formerly known as Lang Park, is a rectangular sporting stadium located in the Brisbane suburb of Milton, Queensland, Australia. Built on the site of a cemetery, the stadium has been the home of rugby league in Queensland since 1957 and today also hosts rugby union and football (soccer) matches.
The site of Lang Park was originally the North Brisbane Burial Grounds, and until 1875 was Brisbane’s primary cemetery. By 1911 the area was heavily populated, so the Paddington Cemeteries Act (1911) was introduced and the site was redeveloped as a recreational site. In 1914 it was fenced off and named Lang Park after John Dunmore Lang.
Estadio José Nasazzi is a multi-use stadium in Montevideo, Uruguay. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 15,000 people.
Citizens Bank Park is a 43,302-seat baseball-only stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that opened on April 3, 2004 and hosted its first regular season baseball game on April 12. It was built to replace the now-demolished Veterans Stadium (a football/baseball facility) and is the home of the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team. The ballpark features natural grass and dirt playing field and boasts many Philadelphia style food stands, including cheesesteaks, hoagies and other regional specialties. Behind center field is Ashburn Alley, named after Phillies great and Hall of Famer Richie Ashburn, a walkway featuring restaurants and memorabilia from Phillies history, along with a restaurant bar and grille called “Harry The K’s” named after Hall of Fame broadcaster Harry Kalas. This area opens two-and-a-half hours before the scheduled first pitch, much like Eutaw Street at Oriole Park at Camden Yards via the Left Field Gate.
Royal Birkdale Golf Club in the town of Southport in Merseyside, England (but formerly in Lancashire), is one of the clubs in the Open Championship rotation. The club has hosted The Open eight times since 1954, with the next championship to be held in 2008. Previous winners of the Open at Royal Birkdale are Mark O’Meara, Ian Baker-Finch, Tom Watson, Johnny Miller, Lee Trevino, Arnold Palmer and Peter Thomson (on two separate occasions). Birkdale is the only course in the Open rotation that has never had a champion from the United Kingdom.
Royal Birkdale has also hosted the Ryder Cup, the Walker Cup, and the Curtis Cup.
is the home field of the National Football League’s Dallas Cowboys. It is located at Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas and opened on October 24, 1971 at a cost of $35 million. The stadium seats 65,675.
Built to replace the aging Cotton Bowl, the stadium was to have originally been a domed stadium, but the stadium could not support the weight of the entire roof, and public funding ran out before the roof support structure could be modified. This resulted in most of the stands being enclosed but not the playing field itself. This unusual arrangement - more commonly seen in European soccer stadiums - prompted Cowboys linebacker D.D. Lewis to make his now-famous quip that the “hole” in the stadium’s roof was there “so that God can watch His team.”
The stadium hosts neutral site college football games, and formerly was home to the SMU Mustangs before the NCAA shut down its football program in 1987-88. (SMU has since built its own stadium.) In November and December Texas Stadium is a major venue for high school football. It is not uncommon for there to be high school football tripleheaders at the stadium. During the 1987 high school football regular season, Texas Stadium served as a temporary home for a Dallas, TX area high school, Highland Park High School Varsity football team while a new stadium on campus was being constructed. The 2001 Big 12 football conference championship game was held at the site, as well as the 1973 Pro Bowl. In addition to football, the stadium has hosted concert events, wrestling spectaculars, and religious gatherings such as Promise Keepers and Billy Graham crusades (a Graham crusade was the first event held at Texas Stadium).
