Soccer City Stadium

Johannesburg’s Soccer City Stadium, arguably, enjoys the distinction of being South Africa’s most impressive stadium. The spectacularly renovated stadium will host the first match and the finals (last match) of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The Soccer City Stadium is the home stadium of the Kaizer Chiefs, South Africa’s biggest home grown football team. A colossal sum of US$310 million was spent on the reconstruction of the stadium for the FIFA World Cup. The stadium, on any given day can play host to a crowd of 94,000 fans, a far cry from the stadium’s previous capacity of 78,000 fans.

The ground of the Soccer City Stadium gains its inspiration from the calabash, the legendary African pot. The ground looks best at night, when the lights of the stadium are turned on. Soccer City is located in the south-western part of Johannesburg and enjoys proximity to Soweto, South Africa’s famous football-crazy township. The closeness to Soweto on match days will lead to a constant flow of a large number of fans into the stadium. The stadium also boasts of maintaining a parking area that can put up with around 15,000 cars. However, due to the frenzy that will surround the stadium on a match day, it is best reached by a park and ride bus.

A lot of money has gone into giving the Soccer City Stadium the facelift that it now enjoys. It comprises done up VIP areas, reconstructed changing rooms, a new encircling roof, upgraded floodlights and the highly sophisticated outer terracotta shell, the calabash. The Soccer City stadium is also known as the FNB Stadium.

The schedule for the matches to be held at the Soccer City Stadium is given below.