CITY OF JOHANNESBURG
Soccer City is the home of South African football. The opening ceremony and the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ final will take place here. Located in Johannesburg’s southwest and only a stone’s throw from one of the country’s football crazy townships, Soweto, Soccer City Stadium will host the opening ceremony, and opening and final matches of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™.

Name: Soccer City Stadium
City: Johannesburg
Stadium owner: City of Johannesburg
Soccer City: August 20082010 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 2008Scope 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
Parking:
* 15 000 at parking area around stadium
* 4 055 VIP underground parking
Jobs created: 1 300 workers working full-time on site

Source: http://www.joburg.org.za/
Soccer City Stadium Photogallery
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