Stadiums · South Wales
Millennium Stadium
Millennium Stadium — national stadium of Wales.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1.5 h–3 h
- Nearest railway station
- Cardiff Central · 0.3 km
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Millennium Stadium is a stadium in the United Kingdom. Records date its origin to 1997. It covers approximately 40,200 km². Designed by Populous. Owned by Welsh Rugby Union. Managed by Welsh Rugby Union. Named after 3rd millennium. Address: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q123281241, CF10 1NS. Wikidata describes it as: "national stadium of Wales". Coordinates: 51.4781°, -3.1825°.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Millennium Stadium (Welsh: Stadiwm y Mileniwm), known since 2016 as the Principality Stadium (Welsh: Stadiwm Principality) for sponsorship reasons, is the national stadium of Wales in Cardiff. It has a retractable roof and a usual capacity of 73,931. It is the home of the Wales national rugby union team and has also held Wales national football team games. Initially built to host the 1999 Rugby World Cup and replacing the National Stadium on the site known as Cardiff Arms Park, it has hosted other events including the Tsunami Relief Cardiff concert, the Super Special Stage of Wales Rally Great Britain, the Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain and various concerts. It also hosted FA Cup, League Cup and Football League play-off finals while Wembley Stadium was being redeveloped between 2001 and 2006, as well as football matches during the 2012 Summer Olympics. The stadium is owned by Millennium Stadium plc, a subsidiary company of the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU). The architects were Bligh Lobb Sports Architecture. The structural engineers were WS Atkins and the building contractor was Laing. The total construction cost of the stadium was £121million, of which the Millennium Commission funded £46 million. The Millennium Stadium opened in June 1999 and its first major event was an international rugby union match on 26 June 1999, when Wales beat South Africa by 29–19 before a crowd of 29,000. With a total seating capacity of 73,931, it is the largest stadium in Wales and the fourth largest in the United Kingdom by capacity. It is also the second-largest stadium in the world with a fully retractable roof and was the second stadium in Europe to have this feature. Listed as a category four stadium by UEFA, the stadium was chosen as the venue for the 2017 UEFA Champions League Final, which took place on 3 June 2017 and was won by Real Madrid. In 2015, the Welsh Rugby Union announced a 10-year sponsorship deal with the Principality Building Society that saw the stadium…
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Background
History
Until 1969, Cardiff RFC and Wales both played their home matches on the same pitch at Cardiff Arms Park, but all this changed in the 1969–70 season. As a result of an agreement between Cardiff Athletic Club and the WRU, the National Stadium project established that a new stadium for international matches and events was required, with Cardiff RFC moving to a new, purpose-built stadium on the original cricket ground at the site of the former Cardiff Arms Park stadium. The options for the new stadium included adding a third tier to the existing National Stadium, or moving to a new site. This last option was discounted because it would have required a vast car parking facility, and that would…
Architecture
The stadium was designed by a team led by Rod Sheard at Lobb Sport Architecture, who later merged with HOK Sport to become Populous. The building contractor was Laing and the structural engineers were WS Atkins. Mike Otlet of WS Atkins designed the stadium's retractable roof, which was constructed by Kelsey Roofing Industries. Cimolai S.p.A. from Italy fabricated and erected the 72 steel plane frames for the stands and all the 4,500 components of the roof. Construction involved the demolition of a number of buildings, primarily the existing National Stadium (Cardiff Arms Park), Wales Empire Pool (swimming pool) in Wood Street, Cardiff Empire Telephone Exchange building (owned by BT) in Park…
Description
The all-seater stadium has the capacity for 74,500 supporters and features a retractable roof, only the second stadium of its type in Europe. When opened the stadium was the largest stadium with this feature in the world It remained the largest in Europe until the renovations of the Bernabéu in Madrid, Spain were completed in 2024. Additional seating is sometimes added for special events such as a rugby Test against the New Zealand All Blacks, or for the FA Cup Final. The current record attendance is set at just over 78,000, recorded at the Anthony Joshua v Carlos Takam fight, on 28 October 2017, in which Joshua successfully retained his WBA, IBF and IBO titles. The natural grass turf was…
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- Coordinates
- 51.4781, -3.1825
- District
- Cardiff
- Parish
- Castle
- Postcode
- CF10 1NS
- Parliamentary constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth
- Phone
- +44 2922 331 333
- Established
- 1997
- Nearest railway station
- Cardiff Central — 0.3 km
- Official site
- www.principalitystadium.wales
Sources
- wikidata: Q204496 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Millennium Stadium (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Principality Stadium May 3, 2016.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Millennium Stadium?
- Millennium Stadium is in South Wales, United Kingdom (postcode CF10 1NS), in the parish of Castle.
- When was Millennium Stadium built?
- Built or established in 1997. Designed by Populous.
- Who runs Millennium Stadium?
- Millennium Stadium is operated by Welsh Rugby Union.
- How do I get to Millennium Stadium?
- The nearest railway station is Cardiff Central, about 0.3 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode CF10 1NS.