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Soldier Field is located on famous Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, and is currently home to the NFL’s Chicago Bears. It reopened on September 27, 2003 after a complete rebuild (the second in the stadium’s history). Many fans refer to the rebuilt stadium as the New Soldier Field.

Previously it was the site of the former College All-Star Game, an exhibition between the last year’s NFL champion and a team of collegiate all-star players of the previous season prior to their reporting to the training camps of their new professional teams. This game was eventually discontinued due to the risk of injury to the all-stars in what was essentially a meaningless exhibition, and the lack of competitiveness of the game, which in its waning years was almost invariably won by the professional champions.

Many Army-Navy games have also been played there over the years, almost invariably to sellout or near sellout crowds (in its earliest configuration Soldier Field was capable of seating over 90,000 spectators) but the facility has not been host to this event in recent decades. The stadium was the site for many sporting events and exhibitions but it was not until September 1971 that the Chicago Bears first made it their home. Seating capacity was reduced to 57,000 so that spectators would have a relatively good view of the field and beginning in 1978 the plank seating was replaced by individual seats with backs and armrests.

The field serves as a memorial to American soldiers who died in wars, hence its name. It was designed in 1919 and completed in the 1920s. It officially opened on October 9, 1924 (the 53rd anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire), as Municipal Grant Park Stadium, changing its name to Soldier Field on November 11, 1925. Its design is modelled on the Greco-Roman architectural tradition, with doric columns rising above the stands. However, after being rebuilt, the modern stands now dwarf the columns. The new stadium seats 61,500 people - 5,444 less than the old one.

In 2001 the Chicago Park District, which owns the structure, faced substantial criticism from the Chicago Tribune when it announced the plan to alter the stadium. But by the time it was completed, such notable publication as The New York Times ranked the facility as one of the five best new buildings of 2003 (ARCHITECTURE: THE HIGHS; The Buildings (and Plans) of the Year By HERBERT MUSCHAMP (NYT) Published: December 28, 2003). Having been designated National Historic Landmark in 1987, the stadium lost the designation on February 17, 2006 primarily due to the extent of the renovations.

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Capacity: 45.522

Club: Liverpool FC

Address: Anfield Road, Liverpool, L4 0TH

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Estádio Frédis Saldivar, commonly known as Douradão, is a multi-use stadium in Dourados, Brazil. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 30,000. It was built in 1986.

Douradão is owned by the Mato Grosso do Sul state government and by the Dourados City Hall. The stadium is named after Frédis Saldivar, who donated the groundplot where the stadium was built.

In 1986, the works on Douradão were completed. The inaugural match was played on April 12 of that year, when Ubiratan beat Mixto 4-2. The first goal of the stadium was scored by Ubiratan’s Ademir Patrício.

The stadium’s attendance record currently stands at 18,780, set on July 17, 1988 when Ubiratan and Operário de Dourados drew 1-1.

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Estadio Corregidora is one of the newest Mexican stadiums.

This facility has a capacity of nearly 40,000 seats and is located in the outskirts of the city of Querétaro (90 miles north Mexico City). This sport facility is used mostly for football (soccer) games. It is the home of the team Queretaro_FC, a club that mainly has been in the second soccer division. This stadium hosted the Football World Cup 1986.

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Tehelné pole is a the (informal) name of a city quarter in Bratislava, Slovakia characterized by the presence of several sports facilities.

Tehelné pole is also the usual name of the football stadium being home ground of Slovan Bratislava and the regular home for the Slovakia national team in this quarter. The stadium has a capacity of 31,605 spectators. In 2005-06, it was also used as the “home” ground for Artmedia Bratislava in that club’s Champions League and UEFA Cup campaigns, as Artmedia’s own ground does not meet minimum standards for UEFA competition.

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Ameriquest Field in Arlington is a baseball stadium located in Arlington, Texas, located between Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. It was known until May 2004 as The Ballpark in Arlington when Ameriquest bought the naming rights to the stadium. It was constructed as a replacement for nearby Arlington Stadium.

The stadium is home to the Major League Baseball team, the Texas Rangers, and the Legends of the Game Baseball Museum.

History

Funding was approved for a new home for the Texas Rangers in 1991 by the City of Arlington. Construction began on April 2, 1992 a short distance away from Arlington Stadium, the ballpark it would replace, and the new Ballpark in Arlington was opened on April 1, 1994 in an exhibition contest between the Texas Rangers and the New York Mets. The first official game was on April 11 against the Milwaukee Brewers.

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Hiroshima Big Arch is located in Hiroshima, Japan. It is used by Sanfrecce Hiroshima. It has a capacity of 45,000. It was built in 1993. It is an all-seater.

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Aloha Stadium is a stadium located in Honolulu, (Hawaii). Currently Aloha Stadium is home to the University of Hawai’i Warrior football team (Western Athletic Conference, NCAA Division I-A). Since 1980 it has also been the site of the National Football League’s Pro Bowl. It also hosts numerous high school football games during the season, and serves as a venue for large concerts and events. A swap meet in the stadium’s parking lot every weekend draws large crowds. Aloha Stadium once served as home field for the AAA Hawaii Islanders of the Pacific Coast League from 1975 to 1987 before the team moved to Colorado Springs.

Aloha Stadium can be reconfigured into various configurations for different sport venues and other purposes, and is the first stadium in the United States with this capability. Four movable sections, each 3.5 million tons and with a capacity of 7,000, can move using air cushions into a diamond configuration for baseball (also used for soccer), an oval for football, or a triangle for concerts. However, as of 2006, the Aloha Stadium Authority (the board which manages the stadium) was debating whether or not to permanently lock the stadium in either the football or baseball configuration, citing the high costs of maintaining the equipment used to move the stadium sections.

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Capacity: 30,000

Inauguration: 1950

Club: Pacific Tigers

Qwest Field is a football stadium in Seattle, Washington. It serves as the home field for the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks and men’s and women’s Seattle Sounders soccer teams. The stadium opened in July 2002 and was built on the site of the Kingdome, the previous stadium for the Seahawks, Major League Baseball’s Seattle Mariners, and several other Seattle sports teams. On March 26, 2000, to make way for the construction of the stadium, the Kingdome fell in the world’s largest implosion of a single concrete structure.

The stadium was originally named Seahawks Stadium and affectionately called “The Hawk”, or the “Hawks Nest”. The name Qwest Field was announced on June 2, 2004, after Qwest bought the naming rights, $75 million, for 15 years. Although some people began using the new name immediately, the official approval wasn’t given until twenty-two days later (June 24) by the Washington State Public Stadium Authority. Seahawks owner Paul Allen funded about 30% of the stadium’s cost out of his pocket, the remainder being paid by a funding package of user fees, sports lottery revenue, and taxes on related industries.

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