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Key facts
- Full name
- Toyota Stadium
- Former names
- Vodacom Park
- Location
- Kings Way, Bloemfontein , South Africa
- Operator
- Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality
- Capacity
- 42,000
- Surface
- Ryegrass
- Scoreboard
- yes
- Field size
- 100 by 70 metres (330 ft × 230 ft)
- Public transit
- Bloemfontein railway station
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Free State Stadium (Afrikaans: Vrystaatstadion), currently known as the Toyota Stadium for sponsorship reasons and formerly known as Vodacom Park, is a stadium in Bloemfontein in the Free State of South Africa, used mainly for rugby union and also sometimes for association football. It was originally built for the 1995 Rugby World Cup, and was one of the venues for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
The primary rugby union tenants of the facility are the Free State Cheetahs, which participate in South Africa's domestic competition, the Currie Cup. Previously, the Cheetahs represented the Free State and Northern Cape provinces in the international Pro14 competition.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Free State Stadium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.