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Nyayo National Stadium

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AFC Leopards vs GOR Mahia
Sun 24 Nov 2024 12:00

Established
0 (2023 years old)

Capacity
30,000

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Country
Kenya

Location
Nairobi, Kenya

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Upcoming

24 Nov	AFC Leopards	-	GOR Mahia		12:00pm
01 Dec	AFC Leopards	-	Kenya Police		1:00pm
11 Dec	AFC Leopards	-	Tusker		12:00pm
22 Dec	AFC Leopards	-	Bandari		12:00pm
05 Jan	AFC Leopards	-	Talanta		12:00pm

Past Events

10 Nov	AFC Leopards	1 - 1	Mara Sugar
29 Sep	AFC Leopards	2 - 1	Nairobi City
15 Sep	AFC Leopards	0 - 1	Posta Ranger
21 Apr	GOR Mahia	1 - 0	AFC Leopards
07 Apr	AFC Leopards	1 - 1	Sofapaka
03 Mar	AFC Leopards	2 - 0	Nzoia Sugar
11 Feb	AFC Leopards	1 - 0	Muranga Seal
04 Feb	Kariobangi S	0 - 2	AFC Leopards
07 Jan	AFC Leopards	1 - 0	Ulinzi Stars
17 Dec	AFC Leopards	2 - 0	Homeboyz

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Nyayo National Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Nairobi, Kenya. It is located near the city centre. The stadium was built in 1983 for a capacity of 30,000. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The popular AFC Leopards football club plays most of its home games at Nyayo stadium. The stadium is also used for athletics and various ceremonies. Other facilities at the Nyayo Stadium include a gymnasium and a 50-metre swimming pool. Rugby union club Mwamba RFC used the Nyayo National Stadium for home games.

The completion of the Nyayo Stadium gave Kenya the opportunity to be placed in the category of nations that were invited to bid for the 4th All-Africa Games in 1987, a bid that was awarded to Kenya, giving it International status. In essence, the Nyayo Stadium "gave birth" to Moi International Sports Centre.

The Nyayo Stadium was the host venue of the 2010 African Championships in Athletics.

The stadium was renamed to the Coca-Cola National Stadium after the multi-national company won the naming rights to the stadium in February 2009. The deal was worth US$1.5 million and would have seen the beverage company do branding, marketing and naming to the whole stadium for three years. Three months later, however, Coca-Cola withdrew from the contract, because the Kenyan government wanted to have the stadium branded as Coca-Cola Nyayo National Stadium. but was renamed again to the Nyayo National Stadium, as the Government of Kenya wanted it branded. This decision has been widely criticised by many Kenyan citizens, because they believe that Coca-Cola would have heavily improved and popularised the stadium.

The stadium houses headquarters for the Football Kenya Federation and Athletics Kenya.


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