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Key facts
- Full name
- Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace
- Address
- South Africa
- Location
- R565 (Sun City Road), Phokeng , South Africa
- Owner
- Royal Bafokeng Nation
- Capacity
- 44,530
- Surface
- GrassMaster
- Built
- 1996-1998
- Renovated
- 2007-2009
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- stadium
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- Phokeng
- Sport
- rugby union
- Image
- Royal Bafokeng Stadium, Phokeng.jpg
- Significant event
- 2010 FIFA World Cup
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- Commons category
- Royal Bafokeng Stadium
- maximum capacity
- 42000
- occupant
- Platinum Stars F.C.
- date of official opening
- 1999-00-00
- inception
- 1999-01-01
- surface played on
- lawn
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Encyclopedic overview
The Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace is a football, rugby and athletics stadium in Phokeng near Rustenburg, South Africa. It was built and is managed by the Royal Bafokeng Nation. It was used as the home stadium for Premier Soccer League club Platinum Stars. The Leopards rugby team host large attendance matches during the Currie Cup at the stadium, instead of their usual home ground, Olën Park.
The capacity of the stadium was increased from 38,000 to 44,530 to be able to host five first-round matches and one second-round match at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Royal Bafokeng Stadium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.