Estadio Azteca

The Estadio Azteca (Spanish pronunciation: [esˈtaðjo asˈteka]) is a football stadium in Mexico City, Mexico. Club América and the Mexico national football team play in this stadium.

Estadio Azteca
Aztec Stadium

El Coloso de Santa Úrsula
Location	Mexico City, Mexico
Public transit	Estadio Azteca Xochimilco Light Rail
Owner	Televisa
Operator	Club América
Executive suites	856
Capacity	87,000
Record attendance	Football: 119,853 (Mexico-Brazil, 7 July 1968)[1] Boxing: 132,247 (Julio César Chávez vs Greg Haugen, 20 February 1993)[2]
Field size	105 m × 68 m (344 ft × 223 ft)
Surface	Grass
Construction
Started	1961
Opened	29 May 1966
Renovated	1985
Construction cost	MXN$ 260 million
Architect	Pedro Ramírez Vázquez Rafael Mijares Alcérreca
Tenants
Mexico national football team (1966–present) América (Liga MX) (1966–present) Necaxa (1966–70 and 1982–2003) Atlante (1966–82, 1996–2001 and 2004–2007) Universidad Nacional (1967–1969) Atlético Español (1970–1982) Cruz Azul (1971–1996) American Bowl (1994, 1997–1998, and 2000–2001) NFL International Series (2005)

This stadium can hold 87,000 people. It is the largest stadium in Mexico. It used to hold 105,000 people, and at that time it was the former largest football-specific stadium in the world.^[3]

In 2005, the stadium hosted the first NFL game played outside the US.