Soccer City Stadium, Johannesburg

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Name : Soccer City Stadium (FNB Stadium)
Capacity : 94,700

Soccer City was first opened in 1989 with a seating capacity around 80,000 spectators. For the purposes of the 2010 World Cup South Africa, the stadium was renovated in 1989 and its capacity increased to 94,700 people. This stadium is the largest and grandest stadium in South Africa.

Given the architecture, the most magnificent stadiums in fact refused to take a modern form. Instead, they go back to basics and tradition of their native culture.

This building takes the form of earthen pots Africa (calabash), which is shaped pumpkins. Outer wall of the stadium is a mosaic of colored fire and earth. Lighting circuits installed base around the outside wall of the bottom. Seeing the stadium from a distance at night, you like looking at a pot on the fire. The atmosphere will be more dramatic, when the mosaic layer was washed wall lights from the spotlight.

Soccer City surprises did not stop there. On the inside, tribune tribune-shaped and colored in a way that looks ten vertical black lines. Nine out of ten lines is a symbol of geographical and other nine stadiums that will be used as a World Cup event in 2010. While the tenth line is a symbolization Olimiade Berlin Stadium, which is where the party digelarnya World Cup 2006 Germany.

With the grandeur and elegance in such a way, was proper and fitting didaulat stadium to begin and end the biggest football celebration first in mainland Africa.