Olympic Stadium

For a specific stadium, see Olympic Stadium (disambiguation).

The Olympic Stadium is the name usually given to the big centrepiece stadium of the Summer Olympic Games. Traditionally, the opening and closing ceremonies and the track and field competitions are held in the Olympic Stadium. Many, though not all, of these venues actually contain the words Olympic Stadium as part of their name. The Winter Olympic Games do not have a central Olympic Stadium, however some edifices are designated as the Olympic Stadium, which usually hosts the opening and closing ceremonies.

A number of stadiums have been used in more than one Olympics, in those cities that have held the Games twice. While only one (the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum) has been the main stadium twice, both the Panathinaiko Stadio and the Vélodrome de Vincennes have hosted events at subsequent Olympics. The London Games of 2012 will not be opened and closed at the rebuilt Wembley Stadium, the site of the 1948 Olympic Stadium, but at a new stadium in Stratford. Wembley will however be the venue for some 2012 Olympic football matches. Wembley will become the second stadium to have been used twice but only host one Olympics after the Melbourne Cricket Ground which was the venue in 1956 and hosted the first game of the Sydney 2000 football tournament.

Stadia

Image	Olympics	Season	Stadium	City	Country	New/old	Capacity
	1896	Summer	Panathinaiko Stadium	Athens	Greece	Existing	80,000
	1900	Summer	Vélodrome de Vincennes	Paris	France	Existing	50,000
	1904	Summer	Francis Field	St. Louis	United States	Existing	19,000
	1908	Summer	White City Stadium	London	United Kingdom	New	68,000
	1912	Summer	Stockholms Olympiastadion	Stockholm	Sweden	New	20,000
—	1920	Summer	Olympisch Stadion	Antwerp	Belgium	New	12,771
—	1924	Winter	Stade Olympique de Chamonix	Chamonix	France	New	45,000
	1924	Summer	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	Paris	France	Existing	45,000
	1928	Winter	St. Moritz Olympic Ice Rink	St. Moritz	Switzerland	New
	1928	Summer	Olympisch Stadion	Amsterdam	Netherlands	New	31,600
—	1932	Winter	Lake Placid Speedskating Oval	Lake Placid	United States	New	7,500
	1932	Summer	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum	Los Angeles	United States	Existing	101,574
	1936	Winter	Olympia Skistadion	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany	Existing
	1936	Summer	Olympiastadion	Berlin	Germany	New	110,000
	1948	Winter	St. Moritz Olympic Ice Rink	St. Moritz	Switzerland	Existing
	1948	Summer	Wembley Stadium	London	United Kingdom	Existing	82,000
	1952	Winter	Bislett Stadion	Oslo	Norway	Existing	20,000
	1952	Summer	Olympiastadion	Helsinki	Finland	New	40,000
	1956	Winter	Stadio Olympica	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Italy	New	12,000
File:MCG stadium.jpg	1956	Summer	Melbourne Cricket Ground	Melbourne	Australia	Existing	100,000
—	1960	Winter	Blyth Arena	Squaw Valley	United States	New	8,500
File:Image-Roma stadio olimpico2.JPG	1960	Summer	Stadio Olimpico	Rome	Italy	Existing	65,000
	1964	Winter	Bergiselschanze	Innsbruck	Austria	Existing	12,000
	1964	Summer	Olympic Stadium	Tokyo	Japan	Existing	57,363
—	1968	Winter	Olympic Stadium	Grenoble	France	Temporary	60,000
	1968	Summer	Estadio Olímpico Universitario	Mexico City	Mexico	Existing	83,700
—	1972	Winter	Makomanai Open Stadium	Sapporo	Japan	New	30,000
	1972	Summer	Olympiastadion	Munich	Germany	New	80,000
	1976	Winter	Bergiselschanze	Innsbruck	Austria	Existing
	1976	Summer	Olympic Stadium	Montreal	Canada	New	66,308
	1980	Winter	Lake Placid Equestrian Stadium	Lake Placid	United States	Existing	30,000
	1980	Summer	Stadion Luzhniki Former name: Tsentralny stadion imeni V.I. Lenina	Moscow	Soviet Union	Existing	103,000
	1984	Winter	Olimpijski stadion Asim Ferhatović - Hase Former name: Stadion Koševo	Sarajevo	Yugoslavia	Existing	50,000
	1984	Summer	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum	Los Angeles	United States	Existing	93,607
	1988	Winter	McMahon Stadium	Calgary	Canada	Existing	38,205
File:Seoul.Olympic.Stadium.01 copy.jpg	1988	Summer	Seoul Olympic Stadium	Seoul	South Korea	Existing	100,000
—	1992	Winter	Théâtre des Cérémonies	Albertville	France	Temporary	35,000
	1992	Summer	Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc	Barcelona	Spain	Existing	70,000
	1994	Winter	Lysgårdsbakken	Lillehammer	Norway	New	35,000
File:Atlantaolympicstadium.JPG	1996	Summer	Centennial Olympic Stadium (now Turner Field)	Atlanta	United States	New	85,000
	1998	Winter	Nagano Olympic Stadium	Nagano	Japan	New	30,000
	2000	Summer	Stadium Australia (ANZ Stadium)	Sydney	Australia	New	114,714
	2002	Winter	Rice-Eccles Stadium	Salt Lake City	United States	Existing	45,017
File:Olympic stadium.JPG	2004	Summer	Olympic Stadium of Athens 'Spyros Louis'	Athens	Greece	Existing	71,030
	2006	Winter	Stadio Olimpico di Torino	Turin	Italy	Existing	28,000
	2008	Summer	Beijing National Stadium	Beijing	China	New	91,000
	2010	Winter	BC Place Stadium	Vancouver	Canada	Existing	54,500
	2012	Summer	Olympic Stadium	London	United Kingdom	New	80,000
—	2014	Winter	Olimpiysky stadion	Sochi	Russia	New	40,000
	2016	Summer	Estádio do Maracanã	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	Existing	88,992
File:Ski Jump Tower Stadium in Pyongchang, South Korea.png	2018	Winter	Alpensia Ski Jumping Stadium	Pyeongchang	South Korea	Existing	60,000

Other major events

Venue	City	Events
Olympiako Stadio Athinas 'Spyros Louis'	Athens	1983, 1994 and 2007 UEFA Champions League Final, 1997 World Championships in Athletics, WRC Acropolis Rally SuperSpecial Stage 2005 and 2006, 2006 IAAF World Cup in Athletics
Centennial Olympic Stadium	Atlanta	Reconstructed into Turner Field for Major League Baseball's (MLB) Atlanta Braves. Hosted 1999 World Series and 2000 MLB All-Star Game
Olympic Stadium	Berlin	2006 FIFA World Cup Final and 2009 World Championships in Athletics
Olympic Stadium	Helsinki	1983 and 2005 World Championships in Athletics
Wembley Stadium	London	1966 FIFA World Cup Final, UEFA Euro 1996 Final, 1992 European Cup Final
White City Stadium	London	1934 British Empire Games
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum	Los Angeles	Super Bowl I (1967), Super Bowl VII (1973), 1959 World Series, and second game of the 1959 MLB All-Star Game
Melbourne Cricket Ground	Melbourne	1992 Cricket World Cup Final, 2006 Commonwealth Games, annual Australian Football League Grand Final
Olympic Stadium	Munich	1974 FIFA World Cup Final, 1979 European Cup Final, UEFA Euro 1988 Final, 1993 and 1997 UEFA Champions League Finals
Stade Olympique de Colombes	Paris	1938 FIFA World Cup Final
Estádio do Maracanã	Rio de Janeiro	1950 FIFA World Cup Final, 2000 FIFA Club World Championship Final, 2007 Pan American Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies and 2014 FIFA World Cup Final
Stadio Olimpico	Rome	1977 and 1984 European Cup Finals, 1987 World Championships in Athletics, 1990 FIFA World Cup Final, 1996 and 2009 UEFA Champions League Finals
Stadium Australia	Sydney	2003 Rugby World Cup Final, annual National Rugby League Grand Final
Olympic Stadium	Tokyo	1991 World Championships in Athletics
Olympic Stadium	Sochi	2018 FIFA World Cup matches