Athlone Stadium

Football stadium

Athlone Stadium is a stadium on the Cape Flats in Cape Town. It is used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Santos Cape Town. The stadium holds 34,000 people and was built in 1972. The stadium was upgraded in the lead-up to the 2010 FIFA World Cup with the intention of using it as a training venue. The estimated cost of the upgrade was R297 million. The capacity is 34 000