Commonwealth Stadium

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Commonwealth Stadium
Commonwealth Stadium
Aerial view of the Commonwealth Stadium
Data
place 11000 Stadium Road Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
CanadaCanada 
Coordinates 53 ° 33 '35 "  N , 113 ° 28' 34"  W Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '35 "  N , 113 ° 28' 34"  W.
owner City of Edmonton
opening 1978
Renovations 2001, 2008
Extensions 1982, 2013
surface Natural grass (1978–2009)
Artificial grass (since 2010)
costs CAD 20.9 million (1978)
CAD 11 million (1982)
CAD 22.2 million (2001)
CAD 112 million (2008)
CAD 12 million (2013)
capacity 56,302 places (since 2013)
59,537 places (2008–2012)
60,081 places (1983–2007)
59,912 places (1982)
43,346 places (1980–1981)
42,500 places (1978–1979)
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Events

The Commonwealth Stadium is a stadium with athletics track in the Canadian city of Edmonton , province of Alberta . It is mainly used by the Edmonton Eskimos from the Canadian Football League . For their games and events, the facility has been sponsored by The Brick Field at Commonwealth Stadium for five years since summer 2016 .

history

The 56,302-seat arena was built for the 1978 Commonwealth Games . The attendance record is even 62,531 at the Gray Cup 2002 . After the Montreal Olympic Stadium, the stadium is the competition venue with the second largest capacity in the country and also one of the main stadiums , until 2009, with a grass field, which means that it is often the venue for international football games and tournaments and until the opening of the BMO Field in Toronto was the main venue for the Canadian national soccer team in 2007 . In rugby union , the Churchill Cup and some games of the 2006 Women's Rugby Union World Cup were also played.

On November 22, 2003, the NHL Heritage Classic 2003 , an NHL outdoor ice hockey game between the Edmonton Oilers and the Montréal Canadiens , took place at Commonwealth Stadium . It was the first open-air game in the history of the National Hockey League and was watched by a record crowd of 57,167.

During the 2015 Women's World Cup , the Commonwealth Stadium hosted the opening game and the third place match.

On June 15, 2016, the Edmonton Eskimos announced that the stadium will bear the name of the furniture chain The Brick and officially be called The Brick Field at Commonwealth Stadium from this summer onwards for Eskimo games and events . The sponsorship agreement has a term of five years. The amount of annual payments from the Edmonton-based company was unknown.

Concerts

gallery

  • East side of the stadium in 2009

  • Stage for the U2 360 ° Tour in the Commonwealth Stadium on June 1, 2011

  • Game of the Edmonton Eskimos against the Saskatchewan Roughriders on June 29, 2013

  • The stadium with new seating in October 2013

See also

Web links

Commons : Commonwealth Stadium  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ stadiumdb.com: Canada: Edmonton's Commonwealth Stadium gets recolored article from August 13, 2013 (English)
  2. ↑ fooneo.de: Women's World Cup 2015 schedule ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fooneo.de
  3. ↑ globalnews.ca: Edmonton's Commonwealth Stadium field gets name change article from June 15, 2016 (English)
  4. ↑ stadionwelt.de: Naming-Right-Deal for Commonwealth Stadium Article from June 16, 2016
  5. ↑ setlist.fm: concert list of the Commonwealth Stadium (English)