Soccer City Stadium, Jo'burg
Soccer City Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Soccer City Stadium
Soccer City, sometimes referred to as the FNB Stadium, is a stadium located in
the Soweto area of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located next to the
South African Football Association headquarters (SAFA House) where both the FIFA
offices and the Local Organising Committee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup is
housed.
A football-specific stadium, Soccer City currently has a capacity of 91,141, the
largest in Africa. Most of the largest football events in South Africa are
played at Soccer City
The Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg has undergone a major upgrade for the
2010 World Cup tournament, with a new design inspired by traditional African
pottery.
The upper tier has been extended around the stadium to increase the capacity to
94,700 with an extra 99 Executive suites, an encircling roof has been
constructed, new changing room facilities have been developed and new
floodlights have been installed.
The outside of the stadium is designed to have the appearance of a calabash, an
African pot, the cladding on the outside is a mosaic of fire and earthen colours
with a ring of lights running around the bottom of the structure, simulating
fire underneath the pot. No spectator will be more than 100 metres (330ft)
from the action and there are no restricted views in the stadium.
The stands in Soccer City are articulated by ten black vertical lines; nine are
aligned geographically with the nine other stadia involved in the 2010 World
Cup, and a tenth line is aimed at Berlin's Olympic Stadium, which hosted the
previous World Cup final in 2006.
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