Panathenaic Stadium
Athens, Greece
50,000
recorded capacity
1 block = 1,000 placesoutline continues to Olympic Stadium, Athens, 69,618
Panathenaic Stadium in Athens is the 2nd-largest and joint oldest (completed 1896) of the 16 listed stadiums in Greece. It was a venue of the 1896 and 2004 Summer Olympics, and it is counted among the Olympic stadiums.
Its capacity equals 11.9% of the combined capacity of the listed stadiums in Greece. The nearest listed stadium is Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, 2.4 km away.
- Listed for
- Athletics
- Position
- 37.97° N, 23.74° E
Where it stands in Greece
- Olympic Stadium, Athens19,618 more69,618
- Panathenaic Stadium50,000
- Karaiskakis Stadium16,666 fewer33,334
- Agia Sophia Stadium18,900 fewer31,100
- Toumba Stadium21,297 fewer28,703
- 11 more listed stadiums
From the record
- Record attendance
- 70,000 (1968)
- Latest renovation or expansion
- 1896, more recent than 0 of the other 11 listed stadiums in Greece with such a year
- Compared with the median in Greece
- 2.2 times the median capacity of 23,194 across its 16 listed stadiums
- Opened in the 1890s in Greece
- 2 of the 16 listed stadiums, this one included
- Also opened in 1896 in Greece
- Karaiskakis Stadium
- Nearest larger listed stadium
- Olympic Stadium, Athens, 8.6 km
- Listed stadiums within 10 km
- 6
Chronology
- 1896 Completed, Renovated, Summer Olympics venue
- 2004 Summer Olympics venue
Nearest listed stadiums
- Leoforos Alexandras Stadium · north-east16,003 places, opened 19222.4 km
- Nea Smyrni Stadium · south-west11,700 places, opened 19394.0 km
- Georgios Kamaras Stadium · north14,200 places, opened 19486.7 km
- Karaiskakis Stadium · west33,334 places, opened 18967.2 km
- Agia Sophia Stadium · north31,100 places, opened 20227.6 km
Source: Wikipedia, Panathenaic Stadium; the year is the completion year from the article's categories, because its infobox gives no opening year.