Commonwealth Stadium

* Address: 11000 Stadium Road, Edmonton
* Country: Canada
* Capacity: 56,000
* Opened: 1978
* Main use: Canadian football
* Tenants: Edmonton Eskimos (Canadian football)

Extra stadium info – Commonwealth Stadium

The stadium is the home of the Edmonton Eskimos, one of the major Canadian football clubs. It had been the home of the Edmonton Drillers, a former North American Soccer League club, between 1979 and 1981. The venue hosted its first-ever FIFA U-20 World Cup match in 2007. 19,000 people attended the football game. In 2011, the stadium hosted the first-ever Canadian Championship match of FC Edmonton, which they lost against the Major League Soccer side Toronto FC.

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