Nairobi City Stadium

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Gor Mahia FC FC Mahakama Nairobi City Stars and Others

The Nairobi City Stadium is a football and athletics stadium in the Kenyan capital Nairobi in Eastleigh district.

History

The Nairobi City Stadium was built in the 1930s, one of the oldest sports venues in the Kenyan capital, and was formerly the name African stage or Donholm Road Stadium. 1958 the stadium received a new grandstand and improved sanitation. This was funded with £ 6600 by the African Trust Fund.

After Kenya's independence in 1963, it was renamed Stadium in Jogoo Road. Until the 1980s, it served as the main venue for competitions in football and track and field before the Nyayo National Stadium and later the Moi International Sports Centre it expired this rank.

The most important athletics event, which was held in Nairobi City Stadium was in 1979 in honor of the one year before the late Jomo Kenyatta Jomo Kenyatta Memorial Meeting held, attended by the sizes of the scene as Henry Rono, Alberto Salazar and Edwin Moses.

With a capacity of 15,000 seats, it now serves mainly as a football venue for several local clubs in Nairobi, Gor Mahia FC, ​​among others, FC Mahakama and the Nairobi City Stars. As part of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, FIFA launched the project " Football for Africa" ​​(English: Football for Africa), thereby creating a new artificial turf was laid in the Nairobi City Stadium.