Levy Mwanawasa Stadium
| Levy Mwanawasa Stadium | |
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| place |
 Ndola , Zambia
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| Coordinates | 12 ° 58 ′ 30.5 ″ S , 28 ° 36 ′ 41 ″ E |
| owner | Zambian state |
| start of building | 2010 |
| opening | June 9, 2012 |
| First game | 9 June 2012, Zambia - Ghana 1: 0 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| costs | 65 million US dollars |
| capacity | 49,800 seats |
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The Levy Mwanawasa Stadium is a football stadium with an athletics facility in the Zambian city of Ndola . The facility is named after Levy Mwanawasa , who was the third president of Zambia from 2002 until his death in 2008.
history
The sports facility, currently mostly used for soccer games , was originally planned for the Pan-African Games in 2011 and was intended to replace the outdated Dag Hammarskjold Stadium in Ndola. The construction contract went to Chinese companies. After Zambia returned the alignment in December 2008, construction did not begin. In 2010, the Chinese government promised to build it. which opened on June 9, 2012 with the match between Zambia and Ghana , a qualifier for the 2014 World Cup . Similar to the Daegu Stadium in Daegu , South Korea , the two-story main and opposite stands are spanned by two roof arches. There are 49,800 seats for visitors. The construction cost 65 million US dollars .
Web links
- Zambia to build three stadia for 2011 All-Africa Games ; Xinhua message dated February 22, 2006.
- Patson Phiri: New stadiums planned as Zambia prepares for 2011 pan-African games ; Southern African News Features 6, No. 72, dated August 2006
- afrotourism.com: Levy Mwanawasa Stadium
- FootballFans.eu: Levy Mwanawasa Stadium
- Stadium in Zambia ( Memento of July 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Soccerway: Levy Mwanawasa Stadium
- WorldStadiums: Stadiums in Zambia
Individual evidence
- ^ Patson Phiri: New stadiums planned .
- ↑ Emmanuel Barra Guet: China the master builder stadium ; ( Memento of July 31, 2010 on the Internet Archive ) The Africa Report, July 2, 2010; first published in: The Africa Report's World Cup 2010 , May edition.
- ↑ de.soccerway.com: Levy Mwanawasa Stadium
- ↑ visitzambia.co.zm: Levy Mwanawasa Stadium, What the Chinese have done so far for Zambia article from April 11, 2015 (English)