Opened in 2005: the Allianz Arena, one of the world's most Stadium # The modern stadium | modern football stadiums.

Opened in 1982, it replaced Metropolitan Stadium, which was on the current site of the Mall of America in Bloomington and Memorial Stadium on the University of Minnesota campus.

1973: Opened for the New York Dolls at the Matrix, Iggy Pop at Bimbos, and Led Zeppelin at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco.

Opened in July 1973, the National Stadium was officially closed on 30 June 2007 and was demolished to make way for the Singapore Sports Hub and New Singapore National Stadium, which are expected to open in 2014.

Opened in 1993, Frans Stadium seats 5, 092 fans.

Opened in 1927, Grayson Stadium seats 4, 700 fans.

Opened in 1958, Avista Stadium seats 7, 202 fans.

Opened in 1984, Everett Memorial Stadium seats 3, 682 fans.

Opened in 1960, Burlington Athletic Stadium seats 3, 500 fans.

Opened in 1969, Devault Memorial Stadium seats 2, 000 fans.

Opened in 2002, Surprise Stadium seats 10, 500 fans.

Opened in 1970, Bronco Stadium was also a track & field stadium ; it hosted the NCAA track & field championships twice, in 1994 and 1999.

Opened in 1968 as Memorial Coliseum as a replacement for Foster Auditorium ( the current name was adopted in 1988 ), the coliseum is located at the center of the University of Alabama's athletic complex, which also includes Sewell-Thomas Stadium, Sam Bailey Track & Field Stadium, the Hank Crisp Indoor Facility, the Mal M. Moore Athletic Facility and the football building and practice fields.

Opened in 1981, Drillers Stadium, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA is a minor league baseball stadium, located in the Tulsa metropolitan area.

After the 1957 season, the Eagles moved from Connie Mack Stadium to Franklin Field at the University of Pennsylvania.

* Olympia Stadium ( 1957 – 1961 )

Attendance averaged 14, 000 from the 1920s through 1957, when crowds were so large that the schools began holding the game at Cardinal Stadium, with a capacity of over 20, 000.

From 1915 through 1957, they played home games at Heinemann Park ( later known as Pelican Stadium ), formerly located at the riverside downriver ( Southeastern ) corner of Carrollton Avenue's intersection with Tulane Avenue in Mid-City New Orleans.

The new City Stadium was officially opened on September 29, 1957, as the Packers beat the Bears 21 – 17.

* 1957 Davis Cup – 3 – 2 at Kooyong Stadium ( grass ) Melbourne, Australia

Giants Stadium was the first major league sporting venue in New Jersey ( though the Brooklyn Dodgers had played seven home games at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City in 1956 & 1957 ), and its success, along with that of the Giants in the 1980s was a major impetus behind increased pride and enthusiasm among New Jersey residents.

As champions, Red Star were Yugoslavia's entrants into the 1957 – 58 European Cup where they were famously beaten 5 – 4 on aggregate by English champions Manchester United in the quarter-finals, with the team managed by Matt Busby beating Red Star 2 – 1 in the first leg in England before drawing 3 – 3 with them in Yugoslavia in the return game on 5 February at JNA Stadium.

As expected, independence was declared by the Tunku in Merdeka Stadium on August 31, 1957, marking a transition into a new era of Malayan and Malaysian politics.

The Luzhniki Stadium also hosted the final game of the 1957 Ice Hockey World Championship between Sweden and the Soviet Union, attended by a crowd of 55, 000 and setting a new world record at the time.

* Milwaukee County Stadium ( 1957 and 1958 )

Rosewall played his first professional match on 14 January 1957, at Kooyong Stadium in Melbourne against the reigning king of professional tennis, Pancho Gonzales.

The bluff overlooks the former site of the Polo Grounds, where Major League Baseball's New York Giants played their home games prior to their move to San Francisco after the end of the 1957 season ; as a result, the name " Coogan's Bluff " was often used, particularly by journalists, to denote the Polo Grounds itself, in much the same way " Chavez Ravine " and " China Basin " are frequently used today to refer to Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles and AT % 26T Park in San Francisco, respectively.

From 1957 to 1978, the Pistons competed in Detroit's Olympia Stadium and Cobo Arena.

Though Sick's Stadium was primarily a baseball venue, it also occasionally held other events, including rock concerts — most famously, an Elvis Presley concert on September 1, 1957 ( one of the first concerts to be held at a major outdoor stadium ), which was attended by a young Jimi Hendrix.

Floyd Patterson knocked out Olympic gold medalist Pete Rademacher in six rounds at Sick's Stadium in Seattle on August 22, 1957.

* Hiroshima Municipal Stadium ( 1957 ), in Japan

The Reading Indians played at Municipal Memorial Stadium for the next decade, capturing the league title in 1957.

In October 1957, a group of blacks picketed multiple times in front of Griffith Stadium, protesting the lack of black players on the Redskins.

On June 26, 1957, a 150 lap NASCAR convertible race was held at the Stadium, which was won by Bob Welborn in a 1957 Chevrolet.

After Cowboys Stadium was opened in 2009, the Cowboys turned over the facility to the City of Irving.

The, scoreboard surpasses the screen that opened in 2009 at the renovated Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri as the world's largest.

The Kansas City Wiz played their first game on April 13, 1996, defeating the Colorado Rapids at Arrowhead Stadium.

With the opening of the new Livestrong Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kansas, Sporting Kansas City became the first major-league team to have played in stadiums on both sides of the state line in Kansas City, and may continue to use Arrowhead Stadium for special-occasion games, such as those against well-known international teams.

* Arrowhead Stadium ; Kansas City, Missouri ( 1996 – 2007 )

* Stanley H. Durwood Stadium ; Kansas City, Missouri ( 2010 ) 1 game in US Open Cup

From 1996 to 2007, the Wizards played home games in Arrowhead Stadium, the American football stadium mainly used by the Kansas City Chiefs.

The Wizards originally planned to return to Kansas City, Missouri, and build a new stadium there – tentatively called Trails Stadium – as part of a major mixed-use development.

The 2012 Season marks the third time the Major League Baseball All-Star Game has been played in Kansas City, with Kauffman Stadium ( then named Royals Stadium ) last hosting the event in 1973, the stadium's first year of existence.

City Stadium ( Pristina ) | City Stadium in Pristina.

The fountains at Kauffman Stadium, commissioned by original Kansas City Royals owner Ewing Kauffman, are the largest privately-funded fountains in the world.

The rugby ground has remained the home of the semi-professional Cardiff RFC despite the professional Cardiff Blues regional rugby union team moving to the Cardiff City Stadium in August 2009.

There is doubt about the future of the Arms Park after 2010 following the move of the Cardiff Blues to the Cardiff City Stadium.

However, in 2012 Cardiff Blues announced that they would be making a permanent return to Cardiff Arms Park following declining attendances at the Cardiff City Stadium.

The Vikings played their final game at Metropolitan Stadium on December 20 to conclude the 1981 NFL season by losing to the Kansas City Chiefs, 10 – 6.

The word " Moonie " was first used by the American news media in the 1970s when Sun Myung Moon moved to the United States and came into public notice through a series of public speeches he gave, including at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1974 and Yankee Stadium and the grounds of the Washington Monument in 1976.

* In the first major sporting event in New York City since the attack, a baseball game at Shea Stadium, the New York Mets ' Mike Piazza hits a two-run, game-winning home run in the bottom of the eighth inning against the Atlanta Braves to defeat the Braves, 3-2.

William A. Shea Municipal Stadium, usually shortened to Shea Stadium or just Shea (), was a stadium in the New York City borough of Queens, in Flushing Meadows – Corona Park.