Cape Town Stadium
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| place | Fritz Sonnenberg Road 8051 Cape Town , South Africa
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| Coordinates | 33 ° 54 '12.4 " S , 18 ° 24' 40.1" E |
| owner | City of Cape Town |
| start of building | March 26, 2007 |
| opening | December 14, 2009 |
| First game | 23 January 2010 Ajax Cape Town - Santos FC |
| surface | Natural grass |
| costs | 4.4 billion R (500 million euros ) |
| architect | gmp Architects - Gerkan, Marg and Partner |
| capacity | 55,500 seats |
| Capacity (internat.) | 68,000 seats |
| playing area | 105 m × 68 m |
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The Cape Town Stadium ( English Cape Town Stadium , Afrikaans Kaapstad Stadium , Xhosa Inkundla yezemidlalo yaseKapa ) is a football stadium in the South African city of Cape Town and was built for the 2010 World Cup . It replaced the former Green Point Stadium , but was named Green Point Stadium and Cape Town Stadium during the World Cup . The facility is only a few hundred meters from Table Bay and the Atlantic Ocean . The soccer clubs Ajax Cape Town and Cape Town City FC currently use the stadium for their home games.
history
Construction work on the Cape Town Stadium began in March 2007. In just 33 months, the project was of Murray and Roberts Holdings and WBHO for a total of 4.4 billion R (500 million euros , 600 million US dollars ) completed are . The stadium offered a maximum of 68,000 seats at the World Cup. After the World Cup, the space was reduced to 55,500 and soccer teams from the city use the facility for their home games. During the Soccer World Cup 2010, some games, including a quarter-final and a semi-final, were played here. The new sports facility replaces the well-known Green Point Stadium with 18,000 seats in the Green Point district, directly on the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront . The official opening of the Cape Town Stadium took place on December 14, 2009. The first soccer game was played on January 23, 2010 by Ajax Cape Town and FC Santos .
During the planning phase there were major concerns on the part of local residents and considerable tensions between Cape Town Mayor Helen Zille and Prime Minister of the Western Cape Ebrahim Rasool , who accused Zille of jeopardizing the construction; however, the new stadium was subsequently approved.
Since the World Cup, z. B. from the union side, criticized that the deficit maintenance of the stadium costs the taxpayers millions annually - the operators for their part regret that it is not possible to run business premises in it before a rezoning process. The trade union association Cosatu is demanding that the sports facility in Cape Town, whose operation and maintenance has cost around € 30 million since it was completed, be converted into social housing - there is even a call to tear down the 'white elephant'.
To make the stadium more profitable , the city is looking for a name sponsor . The city commissioned a company to hold an auction for the future name.
On February 7, 2020, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal competed against each other in a tennis match for a good cause. It was the sixth game of its kind, but the first on African soil. The event brought together 3.5 million US dollars (about 54 million R a). All net proceeds went to the Roger Federer Foundation to support education in rural South Africa. 51,954 visitors gathered in the Cape Town Stadium. This is a new world record for a tennis game. Federer won 6: 4, 3: 6 and 6: 3.
The Cape Town Stadium is to receive 162 new VIP boxes in addition to the 78 existing ones. This is the largest investment since it opened and is intended to help cover the cost of the stadium. The construction work should be completed by February 2021. The building celebrated its tenth anniversary in January 2020. The World Cup stadium has been in the red since its inauguration. For this reason, a new business plan was also drawn up. In addition, the available space in the stadium is to be redesigned, with shops and retail outlets being built on a total of 3,500 m² . A total of 15 million euros will be invested. In addition, attempts are still being made to find a sponsor for the stadium. The facility has had no namesake since it was founded. There are three interested parties. The operator is to receive around 1.2 million euros for this. Despite this, the stadium is dependent on subsidies from the city. Every year the city subsidizes the construction, which costs around 500 million euros, with almost four million euros.
Old Green Point Stadium
The old Green Point Stadium ( English Green Point Stadium or Afrikaans Groenpunt Stadium ) was a football stadium with an athletics facility on the same site. It had 18,000 seats and was the home of the Santos Football Club . In addition to sporting events, concerts were also held there. B .:
- In November 2003 the 46664 benefit concert to fight AIDS , u. a. with the Eurythmics , Peter Gabriel and Bob Geldof .
- In March 2006 the Coca-Cola Colab Massive Mix Festival, u. a. with Metallica and Fatboy Slim
2010 World Cup matches in Cape Town
Group games
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Group A - 11. June 2010, 20:30 pm: Uruguay - France 0: 0
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Group F - June 14th 2010, 20:30: Italy - Paraguay 1: 1 (0: 1)
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Group C - June 18, 2010 20:30: England - Algeria 0: 0
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Group G - June 21, 2010, 1:30 p.m .: Portugal - North Korea 7-0 (1-0)
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Group E - June 24, 2010, 20:30 pm: Cameroon - Netherlands 1: 2 (0: 1)
Round of 16
Quarter finals
Semifinals
- July 6th 2010, 20:30: Uruguay - Netherlands 2: 3 (1: 1)
Web links
- capetown.gov.za: The Cape Town Stadium on the site of Cape Town (English)
- touring-afrika.de: Information about the World Cup Stadium: Cape Town Stadium
- gmp-architekten.de: Stadium project by gmp architects
- ajaxct.co.za: stadium on the site of Ajax Cape Town (English)
- stadiumdb.com: Cape Town Stadium (English)
- stadiumguide.com: Cape Town Stadium (English)
- setlist.fm: Cape Town Stadium concert list (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The city's 2010 FIFA World Cup ™ stadium has a new name: Cape Town Stadium. ( Memento from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ stadiumguide.com: Cape Town Stadium (English)
- ^ Christian Selz: World Cup stadium opening: A diva divides Cape Town . In: The time . January 22, 2010, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed May 4, 2017]).
- ↑ Top 10 World Class Football Stadiums In Africa - Africa.com. Retrieved May 4, 2017 (American English).
- ↑ Swiss radio and television , “ECO” broadcast on May 12, 2014: Seats folded up in South Africa's World Cup stadiums ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the stadiums in Cape Town and Durban ( Moses Mabhida Stadium ).
- ↑ Claudia Bröll: The soccer world championship as a broken dream . In: NZZ , June 24, 2014. Online as: Expensive legacy of the 2010 Soccer World Cup (currency converted: CHF 36 million).
- ↑ dailyvoice.co.za: New name for Cape Town Stadium article from December 18, 2017 (English)
- ↑ Roger Federer vs. Rafael Nadal Cape Town Stadium 7 February 2020. In: match-in-africa.com. match-in-africa.com, accessed April 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Federer v Nadal smashes tennis attendance record in Cape Town. In: en.as.com . February 8, 2020, accessed April 8, 2020 .
- ↑ New VIP boxes for the World Cup stadium. In: stadionwelt.de. April 1, 2020, accessed April 8, 2020 .
