we also have these giant stadiums:
Punjab Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Lahore, Pakistan and is one of the largest stadiums anywhere in the world. It is currently used mostly for football and cricket matches. The stadium was built in 2003 and holds 90,000.
Kirov Stadium is a multi-use stadium in St. Petersburg, Russia, and is one of the largest stadiums anywhere in the world. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium was built in 1950 and is able to hold 72,000 people .
Estadio Azteca is a football stadium in Mexico City. Built in 1966 for soccer matches during the 1968 Summer Olympics, it is one of the largest stadiums in the world, with a capacity of 114,600 seats. Alternative names include Coloso de Santa Úrsula and (obsolete) Estadio Guillermo Cañedo.
It is the home stadium of the Mexican National Team and the Mexican clubs Club América and Atlante and the one-time home of Cruz Azul and Necaxa. The stadium hosted two World Cup finals, in 1970 and 1986. It also hosted the 1986 quarter-final between Argentina and England in which Diego Maradona scored both the Hand of God goal and the Goal of the Century, in memory of which a bronze plaque of his goal was placed outside the stadium. It also played host to the first ever National Football League regular season game played outside the United States on October 2, 2005 between the Arizona Cardinals and the San Francisco 49ers in front of an NFL regular season record crowd of 103,467. |