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The Ford Center is a multipurpose indoor sports/concert arena located in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The arena opened on June 8, 2002; three years after construction began.

The 586,000 square-foot facility seats 19,675 on four seating levels and features 3,380 club seats, seven party suites and 49 private suites. Ford Center is owned by the city. The facility is the premier project of Oklahoma City’s visionary capital improvement program (MAPS) to finance new and upgraded sports, entertainment, cultural and convention facilities with a one-cent sales tax.

Architecturally, Ford Center shares likeness with its sister stadium Ford Field, an indoor stadium in downtown Detroit that was home to Super Bowl XL in February 2006. The venue’s name comes from a naming rights deal with the Ford Motor Company. It is located adjacent to I-40 Crosstown’s interchange with Robinson Avenue in downtown Oklahoma City, just across the street from the Cox Convention Center.

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Independence Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Windhoek, Namibia. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 25,000.

Piast Gliwice is a Polish football club based in Gliwice, Poland.

National Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Karachi, Pakistan. It is currently used mostly for cricket and football matches, and is home to Pakistan’s national and Karachi’s domestic cricket teams. The stadium is able to hold over 40,000 spectators, making it the second largest stadium in Pakistan after Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.

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National Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Freetown, Sierra Leone. It is used mainly for football matches and it also has athletics faclitlies. It holds 36,000. The national stadium hold approxamatly 30,600 people

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Estadio Municipal Gigante do Norte is a multi-use stadium located in Sinop, Brazil. It is used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of Sinop Futebol Clube. The stadium has a maximum capacity of 25,000 people.

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The Estadio Universidad San Marcos is a stadium located in Lima, Peru, belonging to the National University of Saint Mark. It was inaugurated on May 13, 1951, with a seating capacity of 60,000 and 48,782.55 m² of dimension.

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Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium is the home of the Arkansas Razorbacks football team of the University of Arkansas, which is located in Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA. The current head coach of the football team is coach Houston Nutt.

In the year 2001, the stadium was expanded to its current 72,000 seat capacity from its previous capacity of 51,000 seats. In addition to the additional seating, several improvements were made. A new scoreboard was installed with the largest Smartvision LED screen (often incorrectly referred to as a Jumbotron) incorporated into it. Also, luxury boxes, expanded food court, revitalized locker rooms, were all part of the improvements that were made.

The stadium is not the only “home” of the Razorback football team. Some of the “home” games (usually 2 or 3 each season) are played in War Memorial Stadium which is located in Little Rock, Arkansas, approximately 190 miles (by interstate) from the University of Arkansas main campus in Fayetteville, Arkansas. After somewhat of a statewide controversy (some people wanted all the games played in Donald W. Reynolds Razorback stadium, while some people wanted games to continue being split with War Memorial Stadium), in 2001 an agreement was signed with War Memorial Stadium to allow “home” games to be played at War Memorial for the next 15 seasons.

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Dens Park is a football stadium located on Dens Road in the Scottish city of Dundee.

The stadium is the home of Dundee F.C. and has a capacity of 12,085. Uniquely, the stadium shares (see Google Maps) part of the same road (Sandeman Street) as Tannadice Park, which is the home of city rivals Dundee United F.C.

The club moved to ‘Dens’ from their first stadium at Carolina Port in 1899. Over the years, the ground has been redeveloped, with the contruction of the near-identical Bobby Cox and Bob Shankly stands, which sit at either end of the ground. The former is given over to home supporters, whilst the latter has been seldom used since the club’s relegation to the First Division, with it only being opened to visiting St Johnstone, St Mirren and Hamilton Academical supporters. Before relegation, the stand was used to house supporters of all visting Scottish Premier League teams.

The Air Canada Centre, often referred to simply as The ACC, is a multi-purpose arena located on Bay Street in downtown Toronto, Ontario. It is the home of the Toronto Raptors of the NBA, the Toronto Maple Leafs of the NHL, and the Toronto Rock of the NLL. It was also home to the Toronto Phantoms of the AFL during their brief existence.

The ACC is owned by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd., and is 665,000 square feet (62,000 m²) in size.

An early nickname for the venue was “The Hangar” due to the corporate sponsor of the arena, Air Canada. However this name was never quite adopted by the general public. The Air Canada Centre is most commonly referred to as simply “The ACC” and has been referenced as such on the official Air Canada Centre website.

Andy Frost is the public address announcer at the ACC during Maple Leafs home games.

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