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The stadium replaced Ninian Park as Cardiff City's home ground in 2009, and is managed by Cardiff City Stadium Ltd., which is owned by Cardiff City Football Club Holdings Ltd. It also hosted the home matches of the Cardiff Blues rugby union team until the 2011–12 season, although originally the Blues had a lease until 2029.
Canton End (left) and Grandstand of Cardiff City Stadium. The new stadium has 33,280 seats [1] and is home to Cardiff City F.C. club. The stadium also hosted the home matches of the Cardiff Blues rugby union team until the 2011–12 season. It is the second largest stadium in Cardiff and also Wales (the largest being the Millennium Stadium).
The Cardiff International Sports Stadium, opened 19 January 2009, replacing the Cardiff Athletics Stadium (demolished to make way for the Cardiff City Stadium) is a 4953 capacity, multi sport/special event venue, offering fully certificated international track and field facilities, including an international standard external throws area.
Stadium: Cardiff City Stadium; Capacity: 33,280 [104] Current stadium status: New. A new all-seater stadium, planned since the late 1990s, for Cardiff City opened in 2009 after the club had spent 99 years at nearby Ninian Park, and for three seasons the new stadium was shared with the Cardiff Blues rugby union club.
Cardiff's first permanent ground was Ninian Park, which opened in 1910; it remained in use for 99 years until the club moved into the Cardiff City Stadium in 2009. Cardiff has long-standing rivalries with nearby clubs Swansea City, with whom they contest the South Wales derby, and Bristol City, with whom they contest the Severnside derby.
Cardiff International Arena is the city centre's indoor arena; the purpose-built venue lacks the capacity to host large-scale events. Currently the city lacks a large multi-purpose indoor arena suitable for hosting a number of major sporting and music events, such as Adele concerts, the BBC Sports Personality of the Year and the Gymnastics World Championships, with a capacity of 10–15,000 to ...
Cardiff International Sports Campus (Welsh: Campws Chwaraeon Rhyngwladol Caerdydd), is an athletics stadium and playing fields in the Canton area of Cardiff, Wales. The campus opened in 2009 as part of the major Leckwith Development , which included a new football and rugby stadium, Cardiff City Stadium , and a retail park.
The stadium also is the home of Welsh athletics, Cardiff City Youth Team, Cardiff Bay Harlequins A.F.C., Cardiff City Ladies football club and Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club. [22] The stadium is served by Cardiff Bus service 95 and Ninian Park railway station. There are 180 parking spaces on site and 1,000 spaces adjacent to the stadium.