San Siro
| San Siro | |
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| Location | Via Piccolomini 5, 20151 Milan, Italy |
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| Coordinates | 45°28′41″N 9°07′26″E / 45.478080°N 9.12400°ECoordinates: 45°28′41″N 9°07′26″E / 45.478080°N 9.12400°E |
| Public transit |
 San Siro Stadio San Siro Ippodromo
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| Owner | Municipality of Milan |
| Capacity | 80,018 |
| Field size | 105m x 68m |
| Surface | Desso GrassMaster |
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| Broke ground | December 1925 |
| Opened | September 19, 1926 |
| Renovated | 1935, 1955, 1990, 2015-16 |
| Construction cost | £5 million (€1.8 million) |
| Architect | Alberto Cugini Ulisse Stacchini |
| Tenants | |
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Milan (1926–present) Internazionale (1947–present) |
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The Stadio Giuseppe Meazza (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe meˈattsa]), commonly known as San Siro, is a football stadium in the San Siro district of Milan, Italy, which is the home of A.C. Milan and Inter Milan. It has a seating capacity of 80,018, making it one of the largest stadia in Europe, and the largest in Italy.
On 3 March 1980, the stadium was named in honour of Giuseppe Meazza, the two-time World Cup winner (1934, 1938) who played for Inter Milan and briefly for Milan in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.
The San Siro is a UEFA category four stadium. It hosted six games at the 1990 FIFA World Cup and four European Cup finals, in 1965, 1970, 2001 and 2016.
The stadium is also a lauded large concert venue, with Bruce Springsteen calling the San Siro crowd "the best audience in the world."
Construction of the stadium commenced in 1925 in the district of Milan named San Siro, with the new stadium originally named Nuovo Stadio Calcistico San Siro (San Siro New Football Stadium). The idea to build a stadium in the same district as the horse racing track belongs to the man who then was the president of A.C. Milan, Piero Pirelli. The architects designed a private stadium only for football, without the athletics tracks which characterized Italian stadiums built with public funds. The inauguration was on 19 September 1926, when 35,000 spectators saw Inter Milan defeat Milan 6–3. Originally, the ground was home and property of AC Milan. Finally, in 1947, Inter, who used to play in the classy Arena Civica downtown, became tenants and the two have shared the ground ever since.
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