Peter Mokaba Stadium
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| place | Webster Street Polokwane , South Africa
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| Coordinates | 23 ° 55 '29.1 " S , 29 ° 28' 7.7" O |
| owner | Polokwane city |
| opening | 2010 |
| surface | Hybrid lawn |
| costs | 1.1 billion rand (around 75 million euros ) |
| capacity | 41,733 seats |
| playing area | 105 × 68 m |
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The (New) Peter Mokaba Stadium ( English (New) Peter Mokaba Stadium ) is a rugby and football stadium in the South African city of Polokwane , in which four group matches of the 2010 World Cup were played. The facility is named after the ANC politician Peter Mokaba who died on June 11, 2002 in Johannesburg . Today it offers 41,733 places. Not far from the new stadium is the old stadium of the same name.
history
It was built for the 2010 World Cup and is located next to the old Pietersburg Stadium from 1976. The sports facility offered 45,000 seats for the World Cup and has a roof over the main stand. On January 23, 2010 the friendship tournament Peter Mokaba Cup took place in the stadium as the first event . In the first semi-final, Supersport United from Pretoria and the Danish team from Brøndby IF (2-1) met. The second semifinals were played by the Kaizer Chiefs from Johannesburg and Wits University FC (4: 3 i. E. ). The Kaizer Chiefs decided the final 4-2 against Supersport United. The first international match was the soccer match between South Africa and Guatemala (5-0) on May 31, 2010. The stadium has parking spaces for 2,396 cars and 100 buses.
Games of the 2010 World Cup in Polokwane
Four group matches of the World Cup were played in the Peter Mokaba Stadium.
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Group C - June 13, 2010 13:30: Algeria - Slovenia 0: 1 (0: 0)
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Group A - June 17, 2010 20:30: France - Mexico 0: 2 (0: 0)
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Group B - June 22, 2010 20:30: Greece - Argentina 0: 2 (0: 0)
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Group F - June 24, 2010 16:00: Paraguay - New Zealand 0: 0
During the half-time break of the game on June 17, a dispute broke out in the changing room of the Peter Mokaba Stadium between Nicolas Anelka and France coach Raymond Domenech , which plunged French football into the worst crisis in its history .
Web links
- Peter Mokaba Stadium ( Memento from April 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- Peter Mokaba Stadium - Polokwane (Pietersburg) europlan-online.de
- Picture gallery stadionwelt.de
- Peter Mokaba Stadium stadiumdb.com (English)
- Peter Mokaba Stadium . World Cup 2010 Stadium Guide, goal.com (English)
- Peter Mokaba Stadium . de.soccerway.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Mokaba Stadium, South Africa. dessosports.com
- ↑ COSAFA Cup 2018 - Fiytures. COSAFA. Accessed May 31, 2018.
- ↑ stadium capacity. europlan-online.de
- ↑ Chiefs win Peter Mokaba Cup . sport24.co.za, January 23, 2010 (English)
- ↑ Data on the stadium. stadiumdb.com (English)