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Soccer City: fast facts

Official host city for the 2010 FIFA World Cup^TM

Soccer City: fast facts

Name:
Soccer City Stadium

City:
Johannesburg

Stadium owner:
City of Johannesburg

Soccer City: August 2008

2010 FIFA World Cup™:
opening ceremony, opening match, four first-round matches, one second-round match, one quarter final and the final

Capacity:
94 700 seats

Where:
off Nasrec Road, Nasrec, on the outskirts of Soweto

Built:
1987

Getting there:
train and bus station, taxi rank to be built on the southern part of Soccer City

Upgrade: major

Completion (provisional):
July 2009

Value: R1,5-billion

Soccer City: August 2008

Scope of work:

three seating tiers
new management offices, change rooms, four tunnels and basement
230 private boxes
184 suites
two VIP suites
one VVIP suite
one super suite
media section with 2 451 seats
eight TV presentation studios
new roof and cladding all round
32 turnstiles
71 concession kiosks
soccer museum
an "African Pot" museum
300 seat restaurant

Quantities:

94 000 polycarbonate seats
concrete - 65 000m3
rebar (ribbed steel bars installed in foundation concrete walls, footers, and poured in place concrete structures designed to strengthen concrete) - 6 000 tonnes
formwork - 174 000m²
slabs - 65 000m²
structural steel - 7 100 tonnes
cladding - 38 000m²
excavation - 105 000m³
earth fill - 45 000m³
brickwork - 65 000m²