FNB Stadium, also known as Soccer City and The Calabash, is a stadium located in Nasrec, bordering the Soweto area of Johannesburg, South Africa.
FNB Stadium, officially named First National Bank Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium located in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is used mostly for association football matches, hosting the home games of South African club Kaizer Chiefs, its primary tenant.
Opened on 29 July 1989 with an exhibition match between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates, it replaced the original FNB Stadium, which had 80,000 seats. The seating capacity of the new stadium is currently set at 94,736. The stadium was designed by Boogertman & Partners and had a construction cost of $440 million.
A FIFA category four stadium and one of the biggest stadiums by capacity in the world (the biggest in Africa), FNB Stadium hosted several matches of the FIFA World Cup 2010, including its final, as well as the 2013 and 2018 finals of the African Cup of Nations. It was elected the most beautiful stadium of Africa in a 2015 online poll by L'Équipe. By its thirtieth birthday, First National Bank Stadium had welcomed more than 37 million spectators. The stadium is one of the potential venues for the 2030 FIFA World Cup, which South Africa is bidding to host.
