Bingu National Stadium
Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe is the national stadium of Malawi. It is used for football matches and also has an athletics track. It hosts the home games of the Malawi national football team. It holds 41,100 people.[2] It is named after former Malawian president Bingu wa Mutharika. This stadium became Ethiopian Football Federation home arena. This follows Ethiopian Football Federation request to CAF to use BNS as their national stadium is banned to host international matches for lacking minimum requirements as per the CAF Club Licensing criteria.[3]
It also hosted all four matches of the 2024 Four Nations Football Tournament in March 2024.
Construction
The stadium was built with a US$70 million price tag and opened in 2017.[4][5][6]
See also
- Lists of stadiums
References
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- ^ a b c "World Stadiums - Stadiums in Malawi". www.worldstadiums.com.
- ^ "China-funded Bingu stadium in Malawi :A monument of pride". www.nyasatimes.com. 14 January 2017.
- ^ "BNS to host Ethiopia vs Egypt". Malawi 24. 2022-05-13. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ "Bingu Stadium operates at a loss – The Nation Online". 16 June 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-06-16. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
- ^ "Bingu National Stadium – StadiumDB.com". stadiumdb.com. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
- ^ "China to build new Malawi stadium". 2012-10-31. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
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