The following is an incomplete list of sports stadiums in Africa. They are in order by their capacity, that is the maximum number of spectators the stadium can accommodate. Most large stadiums in Africa are used for

football (soccer) Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

, with some also used for

athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competi ...

and

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...

. Currently all African stadiums with a capacity of 25,000 or more are included.

Soccer City First National Bank Stadium or simply FNB Stadium ( af, ENB-stadion), also known as Soccer City ( af, Sokkerstad) and The Calabash, is an association football (soccer) and Rugby union stadium located in Nasrec, bordering the Soweto area of Joha ...

Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Dem ...

is currently the largest stadium in Africa since its capacity was increased to 94,700 for the

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. This event, which took place in June–July, was the first time an African country has hosted the World Cup. The

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have never been staged in Africa. At a construction cost of $600 million, the Cape Town Stadium, located in the legislative capital of South Africa is the most expensive stadium in Africa. The stadium, which is often referred to as the “Green Point Stadium” because it sits on the piece land that previously housed the Green Point stadium, was constructed by an indigenous company, Murray & Roberts Construction Compan

Current stadiums

Capacity of 25,000 or more

Other Stadiums hosted main competitions

Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex, SKD

Under construction

The following is a list of African stadiums which are currently under construction and will have a capacity of 20,000 or more.

Algeria below 25,000 capacity

Angola below 25,000 capacity

Benin below 25,000 capacity

Botswana below 25,000 capacity

Burundi below 25,000 capacity

Cape Verde below 25,000 capacity

Cameroon below 25,000 capacity

Chad below 25,000 capacity

Congo below 25,000 capacity

Djibouti below 25,000 capacity

DR Congo below 25,000 capacity

Egypt below 25,000 capacity

Equatorial Guinea below 25,000 capacity

Ethiopia below 25,000 capacity

Gabon below 25,000 capacity

Ghana below 25,000 capacity

Guinea-Bissau below 25,000 capacity

Ivory Coast below 25,000 capacity

Lesotho below 25,000 capacity

Mali below 25,000 capacity

Mauritania below 25,000 capacity

Morocco below 25,000 capacity

Niger below 25,000 capacity

Nigeria below 25,000 capacity

Rwanda below 25,000 capacity

Senegal below 25,000 capacity

Seychelles below 25,000 capacity

South Africa below 25,000 capacity

Sudan below 25,000 capacity

Tanzania below 25,000 capacity

Togo below 25,000 capacity

Tunisia below 25,000 capacity

Zambia below 25,000 capacity

Zimbabwe below 25,000 capacity

References

StadiumDBworldstadiums.comwww.sastadiums.com
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