New Administrative Capital Stadium
Football Stadium in Egypt
Misr Stadium (Egyptian Arabic: ستاد مصر, translit: Egypt Stadium), also known as the New Capital Stadium, is a stadium in Egypt's Olympic Sports City in the New Capital. It has a capacity of over 93,940 people, making it the largest stadium in the country and the second largest in Africa.
It is part of the Egypt International Olympic City, a large sports complex that has been under construction since 2015. It will have a training ground, two indoor halls (one of them a 15,000-capacity arena), an Olympic-size swimming pool, and other buildings, and is being built with an eye toward the country's possible bids for the Olympic Games or the FIFA World Cup.
History
Construction of the stadium began in 2019 as part of a large Olympic sports complex. It was designed by Italian firms SHESA Architects and MJW Structures with partnership with Cosmos-E engineers and consultants, who had also worked on Juventus Stadium in Turin and the Paul Biya stadium in Yaoundè, Cameroon. Orascom Construction were the main contractor, Design Review and Construction
Supervision by ACE Consulting Engineers (Moharram and Bakhoum), Owner and Project Management EAAF.
The stadium was completed in late 2023, and hosted the Egypt national football team training camp before the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations. It was inaugurated on 22 March 2024, when Egypt hosted New Zealand in a friendly match, beating them 1–0.
Design
The Misr Stadium is built on an elliptical ground plan. The roof is stylistically based on the headdress and the royal necklace of Nefertiti, the ancient Egyptian queen.
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