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City Stadium

City Stadium is the name of several sports venues, most prominently a city-owned stadium in Richmond, Virginia, built in 1929, and the former home of the Green Bay Packers in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The name also attaches to Cardiff City Stadium in Wales, Nairobi City Stadium in Kenya, and an abandoned mid-century project in Newcastle, England.

Key fact	Detail
Richmond venue	Built 1929 at a cost of $80,000; owned by the City of Richmond at 3201 Maplewood Avenue; capacity listed at 22,611, about 6,000 in its current soccer configuration¹^•²
Cardiff City Stadium	Opened 2009 to replace Ninian Park; holds 33,280 on match days since the 2014 Ninian Stand expansion; home of Cardiff City FC and the Wales national team³
Nairobi venue	The first stadium constructed in Kenya, built in the 1930s and first known as African Stadium; capacity about 25,000 with minimal seating⁴^•⁵
Newcastle project	Planned from 1950 on a former refuse tip; first phase opened June 1955; the grand design was abandoned and the site was in disrepair by 1967⁶

City Stadium, Richmond

It is owned by the City of Richmond and stands south of the Carytown district off the Downtown Expressway⁷.

Tenants and events. In July 2018 the Spanish club Espanyol used the stadium as its training base during a United States tour and played a friendly against the Kickers, the first time a LaLiga side had played in Virginia⁸.

Soccer era. The Richmond Kickers of the United Soccer League have played at City Stadium since 1995, and the club's ownership group signed a 40-year lease in 2016⁹. In its current configuration the stadium holds 6,000 fans², on a field measuring 116 by 74 yards with a natural grass surface¹. In 2023 the Kickers drew an average of 5,821 fans per game, about 2,000 more per game than any other team in USL League One, and the club credited visibility from more than 190 community bookings, including farmers markets². The stadium also hosts the Richmond Ivy of the USL W League, whose first home matches in 2024 played in front of packed crowds¹⁰.

Renovation. In August 2024 the club and the RVA Sports Foundation unveiled a privately funded video scoreboard measuring 65.62 feet wide by 35.43 feet tall, 40 percent larger than the scoreboard installed in 1994, with a 10 mm LED display of nearly 2.2 million pixels⁹. The installation brought total stadium investment by the club to over $4 million since 2019⁹, and the venue hosts about 150 home games each year across its tenants¹¹.

City Stadium, Green Bay

The horseshoe-shaped stadium was built of wood and originally had no toilet facilities. By the 1950s it was considered too small and inadequate even after expansion, which was constrained by East High to the south and the East River to the north and east. NFL leaders, including George Halas, gave the Packers' board an ultimatum to build a new stadium or move to Milwaukee full time. Residents approved a bond issue by 70.3 percent in April 1956, and the new City Stadium opened the following year, while the old stadium became a high school field.

Cardiff City Stadium

Cardiff City Stadium, at Leckwith Road in Cardiff, Wales, was officially opened in 2009 to replace Ninian Park as the home of Cardiff City Football Club³^•¹². Since the expansion of the Ninian Stand in 2014 it welcomes up to 33,280 visitors on match days, and it also houses the Wales national football team³.

The stadium has staged international sporting events and major concerts, including the 2014 UEFA Super Cup final between Real Madrid and Sevilla, and concerts by Stereophonics, Bon Jovi, Rod Stewart, and Westlife³. Beyond match days it operates as a conference and events venue with 21 event spaces across two floors, accommodating groups from about 10 people up to 750 guests, with on-site parking for up to 1,200 vehicles¹³^•¹⁴.

Other venues named City Stadium

Nairobi. The first stadium constructed in Kenya was the City Stadium in Nairobi, built in the 1930s and first known as African Stadium⁴. A later description records a capacity of 25,000 people but minimal seating and other basic amenities⁵.

Newcastle. In March 1950 Newcastle City Council announced plans for a City Stadium on the former Ouseburn refuse tip on Warwick Street, with an ultimate design of two stands seating 43,000 people each, a terrace for 8,500, an indoor sports center, an ice rink, and a multi-storey car park underneath, a scheme that would have been bigger than St James' Park. The first phase, a football pitch with cinder cycling and running tracks and a small wooden pavilion, opened in June 1955. The grand plans were abandoned, the site had fallen into disrepair by 1967, and today it is open parkland where the cinder running track can still be seen⁶.

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Initially written Oct 21, 2026 · Edited: Oct 25, 2026

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