Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Stadium

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Wikki Tourists

  • Junior World Championship 1999
  • U-17 World Cup 2009

The Abubarkar - Tafawa Balewa Stadium - (English Tafawa Balewa Abubarkar Stadium ) is a stadium in Bauchi, Nigeria. It holds 25,000 spectators and is currently mainly used as a football stadium. The local football club Wikki Tourists wearing the stadium from its home games.

In 1963, the stadium was built and initially served as a venue for the Railway Football Club of Bauchi. From 1964 to 1966, the expansion of the plant to the provincial stadium. A further expansion took place from 1983 to 1986, when a new grandstand built, created a running track and an electronic scoreboard was installed. In the following years this stage of construction was maintained until 1998, the Nigerian Federal Government took over the stadium and modernized again with regard to the Junior World Cup in 1999. All told, in 1999, four games of the Junior World Cup held in Tafawa - Balewa Abubarkar - Stadium.

When Nigeria won the bid to host the FIFA U-17 World Cup 2009, the government of the state of Bauchi applied about once again to stage matches of a FIFA tournament in Tafawa - Balewa Abubarkar - Stadium. After you won the bid, the stadium was again adjusted to current technical standards. The playing surface has been turned into artificial turf, it was an LED display panel installed and extends the floodlights. In the U-17 World Cup a total of three games will be played at the stadium.

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  • FIFA.com: Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Stadium
  • Football stadium in Nigeria
  • Bauchi
  • Built in the 1960s
  • Football stadium in Africa
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