The building work for the stadium which has a capacity of 32. 960, began in May 2008 and was completed by the beginning of 2009.

The stadium currently has a capacity of 17, 023.

In order to further grow the club's budget, the AZ board of directors has decided to extend the capacity of the new stadium to a minimum of 30, 000 seated spectators somewhere in the near future.

Their excavation has uncovered the remains of a large stadium dating to about 100 BC.

The NLCS and ALCS, since the expansion to best-of-seven, are always played in a 2 – 3 – 2 format: games 1, 2, 6 and 7 are played in the stadium of the team that has home field advantage, and Games 3, 4 and 5 are played in the stadium of the team that does not.

The ALCS and NLCS, since the expansion to best-of-seven, are always played in a 2 – 3 – 2 format: Games 1, 2, 6, and 7 are played in the stadium of the team that has home field advantage, and Games 3, 4, and 5 are played in the stadium of the team that does not.

Its home stadium is Cleveland Browns Stadium, where it has played since 1999.

Craven Cottage is the name of a football stadium located in Fulham, London, and has been the home ground of the association football team Fulham F. C.

The stadium has been used by the Australian national football team for some friendly matches due to a large expatriate population living in England ( mainly in London ).

Yet Fulham's comfortable Premier League table positions in the previous years and the fact that, for the previous three seasons the ground has been filled to capacity, means stadium expansion is a viable option.

As a condition for using the Chelsea FC name, the club has to play its first team matches at Stamford Bridge, which means that if the club moves to a new stadium, they may have to change their name.

No trace of it has been found, but the location of the stadium and some remnants of retaining walls lead to the conclusion that is was set on a plain apart from the main part of the city and well away from the Peribolos of Apollo.

Located at 4 Yawkey Way, it has served as the home ballpark of the Boston Red Sox baseball club since it opened in 1912 and is the oldest Major League Baseball stadium currently in use.

The stadium hosted the Super Bowl for the 2011 season ( Super Bowl XLVI ) and has a potential economic impact estimated at $ 286, 000, 000.

Contributing to this decline in ticket sales is the fact that Jacksonville is one of the league's smallest markets, though its stadium is relatively large ; since 2005 the team has covered nearly 10, 000 of the stadium's 73, 000 total seats with tarp in order to lower the stadium's official capacity to a more typical size and reduce blackouts.

The mascot has established a reputation for making dramatic entrances including bungee jumping off the stadium lights, sliding down a rope from the scoreboard and parachuting into the stadium.

The stadium has a capacity of 67, 246, with additional seating added during Florida-Georgia Game and the Gator Bowl.

The New York Public School system has named a middle school after Robinson, and Dorsey High School plays at a Los Angeles football stadium named after him.

Construction has begun near the city on one of Afghanistan's cricket stadium.

Leipzig has many institutions and opportunities for culture and recreation including a football stadium which has hosted some international matches, an opera house and one of the most modern zoos in Europe.

To date, a complete map of the area has been made, including not only the Ash Altar and temenos, but also two fountains, including the Hagno fountain mentioned by Pausanias, the hippodrome, the stadium, a building that was probably a bathhouse, the xenon ( hotel ), a stoa, several rows of seats, and a group of statue bases.

One independent group which had been active in NFL exhibition promotions in Atlanta applied for franchises in both the American Football League and the NFL, acting entirely on its own with no guarantee of stadium rights.

The large East Terrace had been closed down by the authorities after the Bradford City stadium fire and the ground's owner wanted to use part of the site for housing.

Since the return to The Valley, three sides of the ground have been completely redeveloped turning The Valley into a modern, all-seater stadium with a 27, 111 capacity.

The rules committee considered widening the playing field to " open up " the game, but Harvard Stadium ( the first large permanent football stadium ) had recently been built at great expense ; it would be rendered useless by a wider field.

After a long-running legal battle, Bates reunited the stadium freehold with the club in 1992 by doing a deal with the banks of the property developers, who had been bankrupted by a market crash.

Led Zeppelin have been credited with a major impact on the nature of the music business, particularly in the development of album-orientated rock ( AOR ) and stadium rock.

The club's supporters have been involved in two stadium disasters.

From this, archaeologist David Romano speculated that a stadium racecourse of 170 – 180 meters would have been enclosed within the hippodrome.

They have now since been closed, the land on the former has now been converted into a national park, stadium and the Crafts Village visitor attraction.

By 1969, the cricket ground had been demolished to make way for the present day rugby ground to the north and a second rugby stadium to the south, called the National Stadium.

As the Jets sought to become a stronger franchise and remove themselves from their counterparts ' shadow, the team entered into negotiations with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in an attempt to build a stadium on the west side of Manhattan, entering a bidding war with TransGas Energy Systems and Cablevision for the rights to the West Side Yard property — Hess, prior to his death, had been approached by former mayor Rudy Giuliani about bringing the team to the West Side when their lease at Giants Stadium expired in 2008.

Since 2011, this meeting has been known as the " MetLife Bowl ", after the naming sponsor of the teams ' stadium.

Twenty world records have been set at the stadium, including John Landy's records on the 1, 500 m and the mile, Nurmi's record on the 3, 000 m and Zátopek's record on the 10, 000 m. In fiction, Nurmi appears in William Goldman's 1974 novel Marathon Man as the idol of the protagonist, who aims to become a greater runner than Nurmi.

" Clemente himself, having walked off the distance from the centerfield fence to the back of the stadium, underneath the scoreboard, and then been directed to the landing spot of the ball, estimated the distance at 565 feet ( 172. 2 m ), the longest he would ever recall hitting.

The stadium, which was located at 16th & Bryant St. across from the Stempel's Bakery, had been the home of the Pacific Coast League ( PCL ) San Francisco Seals, a minor league affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, from 1931 to 1957.

With that improvement, the team was sold to Robert Kraft in January 1994 for a ( then ) record price of $ 200, 000, 000 — an astonishing price considering the Pats had generally been considered a laughing-stock and second rate team, had the worst stadium in the league, and couldn't sell out save for select home games resulting in most games going without television coverage — sports in New England centered on the beloved Bruins, Celtics and Red Sox, not the NFL team orphaned in remote Foxborough, Massachusetts, forty miles outside Boston.

Its value as a licence to enter the stadium on a particular day has been permanently lost.

The post-exhibition plan had been to convert The Dome into a football stadium which would last for 25 years: Charlton Athletic at one point considered a possible move but instead chose to redevelop their own stadium.

He ultimately chose the former when a deal between the city, Hamilton County, and Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds ( who were seeking a replacement for the obsolete Crosley Field ) was struck that resulted in an agreement to build a multipurpose stadium which could host both baseball and football games.

The stadium also features a retractable roof, with electrification technology developed by VAHLE, Inc. Other than being the home of the Colts, the stadium will host games in both the Men's and Women's NCAA Basketball Tournaments and will serve as the back up host for all NCAA Final Four Tournaments.

Team owners voted to have the stadium host Super Bowl XLVIII, to be held in 2014.

It became the fourth primarily college stadium to host a Super Bowl, following Tulane Stadium, then the home of the New Orleans Saints ( 1970, 1972, and 1975 ), Rice Stadium ( 1974 ) and the Rose Bowl.

The Metrodome also hosted the 1992 NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four, making it the only stadium to host both events in the same calendar year.

The attendance mark of 63, 130 was second lowest only to the first Super Bowl's attendance of 61, 946, and the Metrodome was the smallest stadium to ever host the Super Bowl.

* The world's oldest international football stadium, the Racecourse Ground, opens in Wrexham, Wales, although it will not host football games until 1872.

* Three national flags fly from the stadium on the poles that are used for medal ceremonies: Previous host nation, Current host nation, Next host nation.

On the 8th of July 2010 the stadium played host to the Best of Belgium gala which featured a tennis match originally scheduled to be between Justine Henin and Kim Clijsters.

Russia became the host nation for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, and it has been decided that some matches will be played in Nizhny Novgorod in a stadium yet to be built.

The climactic transfer of the flame from the torches to the cauldron at the host stadium concludes the relay and marks the symbolic commencement of the Games.

The stadium has also been host to a number of internationals including England's qualifying game against FYR Macedonia in 2002 where the teams drew 2 – 2, with David Beckham and Steven Gerrard scoring for England.

The stadium played host to the World Series four times, in 1969, 1973, 1986, and 2000.

The stadium had served as home of the Stetson University Hatters football team before the school discontinued its football program in the early 1960s, and will once again host Hatters football when Stetson joins the Pioneer Football League in 2013.

Rutgers University and Major League Lacrosse's New Jersey Pride both host their home games at this stadium.

Though the venue was not traditionally a regular host of rugby union matches, England played a friendly against Canada on 17 October 1992, as their regular home stadium at Twickenham was undergoing redevelopment.

( Only the LTU Arena in Düsseldorf was not chosen to host Cup matches, and that stadium hosted the World Bowl that year.

The stadium was, in its early days, considered to be one of the foremost stadia in the world and played host to numerous major finals, such as that of 1974 FIFA World Cup.

While Bayern had wanted to build a purpose-built football stadium for several years, the awarding of the 2006 FIFA World Cup to Germany stimulated the discussion as the Olympic Stadium no longer met the FIFA criteria to host a World Cup game.