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Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg
Soccer City can quite legitimately call itself the home of soccer in South Africa.
In the mid 1980s, soccer officials came together to build the 1st global soccer stadium in the country and the construction was financed from the soccer brotherhood's coffers. Soccer City hosted the 1st mass rally of Nelson Mandela after his release in 1990.
Thousands of mourners lamented Chris Hani's killing at the stadium in 1993. It's also a neighbour to the home of the South African Soccer organisation and its new HQ, the SAFA House.
Football Town will be the flagship stadium for the 1st FIFA World Cup in Africa. The design is unique and peculiar as the outer part of the stadium is meant to resemble an African pot. About forty % of Joburg's population live in Soweto, in a convenient position to Soccer City .
Stadium:
Soccer City
City:
Johannesburg
Built:
1987
Construction:
major upgrade
Completion:
2009
Gross Capacity
94 700
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