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Wellington Regional Stadium (commercially known as Sky Stadium through naming rights) [4] [5] is a major sporting venue in Wellington, New Zealand. The stadium's bowl site size is 48,000 m 2 (520,000 sq ft).
The proposal that was ultimately successful was a new stadium built on unused land near the Wellington railway station. This stadium, now formally known as Wellington Regional Stadium and colloquially as "The Cake Tin", was completed in 1999, and Athletic Park closed permanently that same year.
Newtown Park is a multi-purpose stadium in Wellington, New Zealand, owned and managed by Wellington City Council. [1] It is used for football (soccer) matches in winter, and track and field athletics in summer. Newtown Park is the primary athletics stadium for the Wellington region.
The NZD$130 million stadium was built in 1999 by Fletcher Construction and is situated close to major transport facilities (such as Wellington railway station) one kilometre north of the central business district. [60] [61] The stadium is owned and operated by Wellington Regional Stadium Trust.
The Wellington Rugby Football Union (known as the Wellington Lions for competition reasons) are a New Zealand governing body of rugby union in the New Zealand province of Wellington Region. The main stadium is Sky Stadium (formerly named Westpac Stadium) which is located in Wellington .
The following is a list of stadiums in New Zealand, ordered by capacity.. Stadiums with a capacity of 10,000 or larger are included. It can be difficult to determine the exact capacity of a stadium as many have different capacities for different kinds of events (for example, concerts and sporting events) and they may be able to temporarily expand their capacity on special occasions.
Wellington is the third-largest city in New Zealand (second largest in the North Island), [c] and is the administrative centre of the Wellington Region. It is the world's southernmost capital of a sovereign state. [16] Wellington features a temperate maritime climate, and is the world's windiest city by average wind speed. [17]
They carried on to the semi-finals playing the Chiefs and winning 25-9 at Wellington Regional Stadium. The Hurricanes played the Lions in the final, winning the game 20-3 at Wellington Regional Stadium. This was the first time in Super Rugby history that the Hurricanes won the title.