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Home Depot Center to be renamed
Carson, California (AP) - The home of the Los Angeles Galaxy and Chivas USA Major League Soccer teams is changing its name to StubHub Center in a new naming rights deal.
The 125-acre facility known as Home Depot Center since it opened 10 years ago will change its name on June 1. It is the first naming rights partnership for the San Francisco-based ticketing company.
The price of the multiyear contract...
Designs for Five City Stadiums Complete
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Addis Ababa City Administration Sport Commission received final designs for the five zonal stadiums to be built by 2015.
Ultimate Plan Plc, which won the contract four months ago, has designed two 30,000-seat capacity and three 25,000-seat capacity stadiums, for a total fee of 1.8 million Br.
The Commission will pick contractors in a month’s time, according to Daniel...
Borg El Arab Stadium, Alexandria
Borg El Arab Stadium is a must-see attraction for sports fans heading to Egypt. Situated in the coastal city of Borg El Arab, just 15km from Alexandria city centre, it is the largest stadium in Egypt and the 27th largest in the world. Boasting a capacity of 86,000, this all-seater stadium is used for major football matches and other events.
Whether you are planning to watch a match at the Borg El...
A new era dawns
The first of the stadiums that will host the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ was handed over on Sunday, some 15 days before the initial deadline agreed with FIFA and the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil Organising Committee (LOC) in 2007.
Boasting a capacity of 64,000, the Estadio Castelao in Fortaleza heralds a new era in Brazilian football, with 12 safe, comfortable, sustainable and state-of-the-art stadiums...
Brazil to inaugurate first 2014 World Cup arena
The Castelao Arena in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza (Photo: AFP),
President Dilma Rousseff travels Sunday to the northeastern city of Fortaleza to inaugurate the first Brazilian stadium readied for the 2014 World Cup, an arena built in part by using prison labour.
With its 67,000-seat capacity, the renovated arena, ringed by metallic structures that look like sails floating in the wind, is one of...
Luzhniki Stadium to host 2018 World Cup Final
PARIS: Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium will host the opening match in the 2018 World Cup as well as the final and one semi-final, the FIFA executive committee confirmed on Friday.
The other semi-final will be held in Saint Petersburg.
The Luzhniki was built in 1956 and has already hosted the 2008 Champions League final and the Summer Olympic Games in 1980.
It currently has a capacity of more than 78,000...
