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Only stadiums with a capacity of 40,000 or more are included in this list. Stadiums that are defunct or closed, or those that no longer serve as competitive sports venues (such as Great Strahov Stadium, which was the largest in the world and held around 250,000 spectators), are not included. They are listed under List of closed stadiums by ...
The following are lists of stadiums throughout the world. Note that horse racing and motorsport venues are not included at some pages, because those are not stadiums but sports venues . Combined lists
Sanford Stadium: 92,746 [36] Athens US: Georgia Bulldogs football: American football Rose Bowl Stadium: 92,542 [37] Pasadena US: UCLA Bruins football, Rose Bowl, 1994 FIFA World Cup final: American football Cotton Bowl Stadium: 92,200: Dallas US: Red River Shootout, Dallas Trinity FC: American football, soccer Memorial Stadium: 91,585 [38 ...
Stadiums that had a capacity of 15,000 or greater are included. Most of the largest past stadiums were used for association football or American football . However, some high capacity venues were used for baseball , cricket , Gaelic games , rugby union , rugby league , Australian rules football and Canadian football .
In the case of AT&T Stadium, the highest attendance was recorded for a basketball game, which used field-level seating not available for the venue's standard American football configuration. The largest sporting venue in the world, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, has a permanent seating capacity for more than 257,000 people and infield seating ...
Greek and Roman stadiums have been found in numerous ancient cities, perhaps the most famous being the Stadium of Domitian, in Rome. The excavated and refurbished ancient Panathenaic Stadium hosted attempted revivals of the Olympic Games in 1870 [ 6 ] and 1875 before hosting the first modern Olympics in 1896 , the 1906 Intercalated Games , and ...
The following is a list of ballparks.They are ordered by capacity; which is the maximum number of spectators the stadium can accommodate in a normal game (ex: Tropicana Field can be expanded to 42,000+ but is normally capped at 25,000).
The term is most often used in reference to an association football stadium. Usually, a national stadium will be in or very near a country's capital city or largest city. It is generally (but not always) the country's largest and most lavish sports venue with a rich history of hosting a major moment in sports (e.g. FIFA World Cup, Olympics, etc ...