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Key facts
- Full name
- Loftus Versfeld Stadium
- Former names
- Minolta Loftus, Securicor Loftus
- Location
- 440 Kirkness Street, Pretoria, Gauteng , South Africa
- Owner
- Blue Bulls Rugby Union
- Capacity
- 51,762
- Surface
- Grass
- Public transit
- Hatfield (Gautrain station)
- Built
- 1906–1923
- Opened
- 1923 ; 103 years ago ( 1923 )
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Encyclopedic overview
Loftus Versfeld Stadium is a rugby stadium situated in the suburb of Arcadia, city of Pretoria in the Gauteng province of South Africa, owned by the Blue Bulls Rugby Union. The stadium can accommodate 51,762 spectators.
The stadium is the home ground of the Bulls franchise of the United Rugby Championship, Blue Bulls union in South Africa's Currie Cup and African Football league champions Mamelodi Sundowns. It also hosted the 2009 Super 14 Final which the Bulls won 61–17 against the Waikato Chiefs, the 2009 Currie Cup final, which the Bulls won 36–24 against the Free State Cheetahs, and the 2024 United Rugby Championship final, which the Bulls lost 16–21 to the Glasgow Warriors.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Loftus Versfeld Stadium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.