Banadir Stadium
Garoonka Banaadir Stadium | |
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| Full name | Garoonka Banaadir Stadium |
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| Location | Mogadishu, Somalia |
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| Opened | 1956 |
| Renovated | 2009 |
| Expanded | 1980's |
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Garoonka Banaadir Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Mogadishu, Banaadir (Somalia). It is currently used mostly for football matches.
History
Originally there was the small Stadio Municipale di Mogadiscio as the main sport area in the capital of Italian Somalia: it was created in the late 1930s just north of the Porto di Mogadiscio and hosted the first football competences in Mogadishu. On the enlarged grounds of this "campo sportivo" was created the first football stadium in Somalia: the Coni Stadium, later renamed "Banadir Stadium" in the early 1960s.
It was opened in 1956 by the Italian National Olympic Committee.[2] It is currently being rebuilt by FIFA's Win in Africa with Africa program.
Built in 1956 by the Italian Olympic committee, the Banadir Stadium is currently being reconstructed under the FIFA funded project “Win in Africa with Africa” and is being kitted out with artificial football turf. The old stadium which was not repaired since early 1980s was one of the loveliest football faciities in Africa during the late 1950s and early in 1960s, according to Abdullahi Huusein Baskuwaale who was a member of the first Somali team to play in the stadium at the end of its construction in 1956. AIPS [3]
The Stadium is the headquarter for the following teams:
- Savaana
- Somali Police FC (Heegan)
- Gaadiidka
- Jeenyo United F.C. (formerly Lavori Pubblici)
- Dekedda FC