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What is the largest stadium in Africa?

Short answer

Hassan II Stadium in Casablanca, Morocco is the largest stadium in Africa in our records, with a capacity of 115,000. Cairo International Stadium (Egypt, 100,500) is second.

The numbers

StadiumCountryCapacity
Hassan II StadiumMorocco115,000
Cairo International StadiumEgypt100,500
FNB StadiumSouth Africa94,736
Borg El Arab StadiumEgypt86,000
martyrs' stadiumDR Congo80,000
Tangier Grand StadiumMorocco75,000
New Lusaka StadiumZambia70,000
Prince Moulay Abdellah StadiumMorocco69,500
Prince Moulay Abdellah StadiumMorocco68,095
Tripoli Stadium InternationalLibya67,000
Mohammed V StadiumMorocco67,000
Olympic Stadium of RadèsTunisia65,000

Capacities change with renovations; figures come from Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.

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