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Millennium Stadium
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
73,931
recorded capacity
1 block = 1,000 placesoutline continues to Wembley Stadium, 90,000
Millennium Stadium in Cardiff is the 5th-largest of the 114 stadiums listed for rugby union on this site. It was a venue of the 2012 Summer Olympics.
It is one of 48 stadiums on this site with a retractable roof. It opened in 1999. The nearest listed stadium is Sophia Gardens, 1.2 km away.
- Listed for
- Football and rugby union
- Tenants
- Wales national rugby union team
- Surface
- Hybrid grass
- Roof
- Retractable roof
- Position
- 51.48° N, 3.18° W
Where it stands in the United Kingdom
- Wembley Stadium16,069 more90,000
- Twickenham Stadium8,069 more82,000
- Old Trafford227 more74,158
- Millennium Stadium73,931
- Murrayfield Stadium6,787 fewer67,144
- Tottenham Hotspur Stadium11,081 fewer62,850
- London Stadium11,431 fewer62,500
- 126 more listed stadiums
From the record
- Construction began
- 1997
- Owner and operator
- Millennium Stadium plc
- Architect
- Bligh Lobb Sports Architecture
- Main contractor
- Laing
- Field size
- 120 m × 79 m
- Recorded construction cost
- £ 114–121 million
- Record attendance
- 76,000 (2026)
- Opening order in the United Kingdom
- joint 104th of 133, earliest first
- Share of listed capacity in the United Kingdom
- 2.2%
- Compared with the median in the United Kingdom
- 3.8 times the median capacity of 19,700 across its 133 listed stadiums
- Opened in the 1990s in the United Kingdom
- 16 of the 133 listed stadiums, this one included
- Also opened in 1999 in the United Kingdom
- Brick Community Stadium
- Nearest larger listed stadium
- Twickenham Stadium, 197 km
- Listed stadiums within 10 km
- 2
Chronology
- 1999 Opened
- 2012 Summer Olympics venue
Nearest listed stadiums
- Sophia Gardens · north-west15,643 places, completed 19671.2 km
- Cardiff City Stadium · west33,280 places, opened 20091.5 km
- Ashton Gate · east26,462 places, opened 188739.2 km
- Memorial Stadium, Horfield · east12,500 places, opened 192141.5 km
- Swansea.com Stadium · west21,088 places, opened 200555.1 km
Source: Wikipedia, Millennium Stadium.