Stadium Australia
Sydney, Australia
83,000
recorded capacity
1 block = 1,000 placesoutline continues to Melbourne Cricket Ground, 100,024
Stadium Australia in Sydney is the 2nd-largest of the 74 listed stadiums in Oceania. It was a venue of the 2000 Summer Olympics, and it is counted among the Olympic stadiums.
It opened in 1999. The nearest listed stadium is Sydney Showground Stadium, 0.6 km away.
- Listed for
- Athletics, football, rugby league and rugby union
- Tenants
- New South Wales Blues, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, South Sydney Rabbitohs, Australia national rugby union team
- Surface
- Grass
- Position
- 33.85° S, 151.06° E
Where it stands in Australia
- Melbourne Cricket Ground17,024 more100,024
- Stadium Australia83,000
- Perth Stadium21,734 fewer61,266
- Docklands Stadium26,653 fewer56,347
- Adelaide Oval29,500 fewer53,500
- 52 more listed stadiums
From the record
- Construction began
- 1996
- Owner
- Venues NSW via Government of New South Wales
- Architect
- HOK Sport
- Field size
- 160 m × 118 m
- Recorded construction cost
- A$ 690 million
- Record attendance
- 114,714 (2000)
- Opening order in Australia
- 45th of 57, earliest first
- Share of listed capacity in Australia
- 5.9%
- Compared with the median in Australia
- 4.7 times the median capacity of 17,500 across its 57 listed stadiums
- Opened in the 1990s in Australia
- 5 of the 57 listed stadiums, this one included
- Nearest larger listed stadium
- Melbourne Cricket Ground, 704 km
- Listed stadiums within 10 km
- 5
Chronology
- 1999 Opened
- 2000 Summer Olympics venue
Nearest listed stadiums
- Sydney Showground Stadium · north-east23,500 places, opened 19980.6 km
- Lidcombe Oval · south-west12,000 places, opened 19332.4 km
- Western Sydney Stadium · north-west30,000 places, opened 20197.3 km
- Belmore Sports Ground · south17,000 places, opened 19208.3 km
- Leichhardt Oval · east20,000 places, opened 19348.8 km
Source: Wikipedia, Stadium Australia.