Abuja Stadium
- Nigerian national football team
- U-17 World Cup 2009
The Abuja National Stadium is a football stadium with track and field facility in Abuja, Nigeria.
It serves as the home stadium for the Nigerian national football team, known as Super Eagles, and offers for fans only seats. It also serves as a venue for numerous other social, cultural and religious events. The Government of Nigeria signed the contract for the construction of the stadium and the connected " Games Village " on 18 July 2000. The stadium was the occasion of alignment of the 8th All Africa Games, to be held in Nigeria in October 2003, built. Many look to the ultra- modern, 60,000 spectators comprehensive sports facility one of the architectural landmarks of the city Abuja.
Construction
The architecture of the Abuja National Stadium is from the Stuttgart-based company Schlaich Berger & Partner, who was also responsible for the supervision and the complete planning work for the construction of the stadium. For the construction of the stadium complex, the company Julius Berger Nigeria plc was. responsible, which belongs to the German construction group Bilfinger Berger. The Games Village was carried out by the company China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation.
Any other use
The capacity of 60,000 spectators also allows the use of the stadium for concerts and religious conferences, which are sometimes compared to the sporty use even preferred. Since Nigeria is a very religious country - the inhabitants belong almost equally to Islam or Christianity - held each year some religious events that require seat arena after a lot of spectators. As an example, to call the decision of the Nigerian President, who had to hold a religious event in September 2006, although the Nigerian Football Association actually a football game against Rwanda was scheduled.
Although many Nigerians the use of the stadium for such major events are skeptical, the stadium management so far holds fast to its strategy. One reason for this is that the only way to cover the high operating and maintenance costs of the complex.