Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne
| Opened: | 1853 |
| Seats: | 96.300 |
| Team: |
The venue of the 1956 Olympic Games. The stadium is owned
by the Melbourne Cricket ground, but is also used for Aussie rules football and
every now and than a soccer match. During the 1956 Olympics, the Soviet Union
defeated Yugoslavia (1-0) in the football finals. During the Sydney 2000
Olympics, 7 football matches have been played in Melbourne.
USA - Kuwait (3-1); Spain - Morocco (2-0); Spain - Chile (1-3); Morocco - Chile
(1-4); Australia - Italy (0-1); Chile - Nigeria (4-1); Chile - Cameroon (1-2).
Also the 1998 World
Cup qualifier match against Iran and the 2002 World Cup qualifier against
Uruguay were played here.
The record attendance for a football match is 85,513 (WC 1998 qualifier against
Iran), the overall record attendance is 121,696 for the 1970 Australian Football
League finals (Carlton vs. Collingwood)