March 28 Stadium
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March 28 Stadium (Arabic: ملعب 28 مارس) is a multi-purpose stadium in Benghazi, Libya. It is a part of Benghazi Sports City. It was used mostly for football matches and it also has athletics facilities. The stadium holds 55,000. The stadium is sometimes used by the Libya national football team although it is not as popular a choice as the capital's 11th of June Stadium.
The name of the stadium commemorates March 28, in which British Forces were asked to relinquish their military base rights in Libya and leave the country.
Along with 11th of June Stadium in Tripoli, the 28th of March Stadium hosted many games, including a semi-final, of the 1982 African Cup of Nations held in Libya.
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As of 2009, the stadium has been closed, and demolition work has begun for the construction of a new stadium. The new stadium will be a 45,000 all seater stadium. The construction work is part of a general restructuring of the entire Medina al-Riyadhia (Sports City) site, in which another all seater stadium will be built. Construction work is expected to finish by mid-2011, in time for Libya's hosting of the 2012 African Cup of Nations.[1]
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Coordinates: 32°6′6.5″N 20°4′20.7″E / 32.101806°N 20.072417°E
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