Etihad Stadium

Location: Manchester, England
Capacity: 55,097
Home team: Manchester City

The City of Manchester Stadium or most commonly known as Etihad Stadium is located in Manchester, England, is the home of Manchester City. With a domestic football capacity of 55,097, it is the sixth-largest in the Premier League and tenth-largest in the United Kingdom.

The venue was built to host the 2002 Commonwealth Games, since then it has staged the 2008 UEFA Cup Final, England football internationals, rugby league matches, a boxing world title fight, the England rugby union team’s last match of the 2015 Rugby World Cup and summer music concerts during the football off-season.

The stadium, originally proposed as an athletics arena in Manchester’s bid for the 2000 Summer Olympics, was converted after the 2002 Commonwealth Games from a 38,000 capacity arena to a 48,000 seat football stadium at a cost to the city council of £22 million and to Manchester City of £20 million. Manchester City F.C. agreed to lease the stadium from Manchester City Council and moved there from Maine Road in the summer of 2003. Since then, Manchester City have enjoyed a multitude of domestic success including Premier League and FA Cup titles.