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Azadi Stadium

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Persepolis vs Kheybar Khorramabad
Fri 27 Dec 2024 14:00

Established
0 (2023 years old)

Capacity
78,116

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Country
Iran

Location
Tehran, Iran

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Upcoming

27 Dec	Persepolis	-	Kheybar Khor		2:00pm
02 Jan	Esteghlal	-	Sepahan		2:00pm
03 Feb	Esteghlal	-	Al-Shorta SC		4:00pm
17 Feb	Persepolis	-	Al Nassr FC		4:00pm
20 Mar	Iran	-	United Arab		12:00am
25 Mar	Iran	-	Uzbekistan		12:00am
10 Jun	Iran	-	North Korea		12:00am

Past Events

21 Dec	Persepolis	1 - 3	Mes Rafsanja
16 Dec	Esteghlal	0 - 0	Gol Gohar
07 Dec	Persepolis	0 - 1	Nassaji Maza
02 Dec	Persepolis	2 - 1	Al-Shorta SC
25 Nov	Esteghlal	0 - 0	Pakhtakor
09 Nov	Esteghlal	1 - 0	Mes Rafsanja
04 Nov	Persepolis	1 - 1	Al-Gharafa

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The Azadi Stadium (Persian: ورزشگاه آزادی‎ varzeshgāh-e āzādi), opened as the Aryamehr Stadium (Persian: ورزشگاه آریامهر‎ varzeshgāh-e āryāmehr), is an all-seater football stadium in Tehran, Iran. The stadium was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, an American architectural, urban planning, and engineering firm. It was inaugurated on 18 October 1971 by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran; it is currently self-owned by Esteghlal and Persepolis. It is also the home stadium of the Iran national football team. It has a capacity of 78,116 spectators, as the result of conversion to all-seater stadium. The stadium is part of the much larger Azadi Sport Complex, and is surrounded by a rowing river, football training pitches, a weightlifting complex, swimming facilities and indoor volleyball and futsal courts, among many other amenities.

Aryamehr (meaning "Light of the Aryans") was the title of the said Shah; it was renamed after the Iranian Revolution to Azadi (meaning "freedom" in Persian). It is the largest association football stadium in Western Asia. It was built to host the 1974 Asian Games and has hosted the 1976 AFC Asian Cup. The stadium also hosted five finals of Asian Club Competitions: three finals of AFC Champions League in 1999, 2002 and 2018 and two finals of Asian Cup Winners' Cup in 1991 and 1993. Azadi Stadium also hosted WAFF Championship Tournament in 2004 and 2008.

Because of the loud sound of a vuvuzels, similar to the sound of bees, the stadium is sometimes called a "Bee swarm".


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