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Royal Bafokeng Stadium, Rustenburg

Only minor renovations will be required to bring the Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace in line with requirements for a stadium able to host first and second round matches for the FIFA™ World Cup in 2010. (Seating capacity to be increased to just over 40,000).

Located in Rustenburg, in the North West Province, the Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace was opened in 1999 and completely funded by the Royal Bafokeng community. (An administrative entity presiding over the world's richest platinum mines). The Stadium is already well equipped and will require only minor renovations to bring it up to FIFA™ standards.

The capacity of the stadium will be increased to 40,000 with the construction of two additional rows of seating on the second level. New electronic scoreboards, floodlights and a new public address system will fullfill all the requirements for it to host the first and second round matches of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

 


 
Royal Bafokeng Stadium to be completed next month PDF 

By Kagiso Metswamere

Mafikeng - The Royal Bafokeng stadium in Rustenburg, which is to host matches for the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup and 2010 FIFA World Cup, is expected to be completed next month.

According to the Managing Director of the Bafokeng Royal Sports Holdings, George Khunou, the stadium is 90 percent complete with the rest of the work to be completed in mid February this year.

“We have done a lot of hard work in preparation of the two main soccer events that will be taking place in our stadium.

“We were expecting that the stadium will be through in March but because of the hard work that has been taking place the stadium will be completed sooner than we expected,” Mr Khunou told BuaNews on Wednesday.
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