City of Manchester Stadium
The City of Manchester Stadium is the home of Premier League club Manchester City, with a domestic football capacity of 53,400, making it the 6th-largest football stadium in England... Wikipedia
- Full name: City of Manchester Stadium
- Location: Etihad Campus, Manchester, M11 3FF
- Public transit: Etihad Campus, Velopark
- Owner: Manchester City Council
- Operator: Manchester City
- Executive suites: 70
- Capacity: 53,400 – Domestic football, 60,000 – Music concerts, 41,000 (2002 Commonwealth Games)
- Record attendance: 54,693 (Manchester City vs Leicester City, 6 February 2016)
- Field size: 105 x 68 m
- Surface: Desso GrassMaster
- Broke ground: 12 December 1999
- Opened: 25 July 2002 (as athletics stadium), 10 August 2003 (as football stadium)
- Renovated: 2002–2003 (conversion)
- Expanded: 2014–2015 (47,400 to 55,097 seats), 2023–2026 (53,400 to 61,474 seats)
- Construction cost: £112 million (athletics stadium), £22 million (football conversion), £20 million (football fit-out)
- Architect: Arup (stadium design), KSS Design Group (interior fitout), Populous (stadium expansion)
- Structural engineer: Arup
- General contractor: Laing Construction Ltd. (initial construction), Laing O'Rourke (stadium conversion & later expansion)
- Main contractors: Watson Steel Ltd. (initial steelwork construction)
- Data source: DuckDuckGo