Melbourne Cricket Ground

* Address: Brunton Avenue, Melbourne
* Country: Australia
* Capacity: 100,000
* Opened: 1854
* Main use: Australian football, cricket
* Tenants: Collingwood (Australian football), Hawthorn (Australian football), Melbourne FC (Australian football), Melbourne Stars (cricket), Richmond (Australian football)

Extra stadium info – Melbourne Cricket Ground

The stadium is among the largest sports venues by capacity in the world. It became a venue for several events, like athletics, Australian football, baseball, concerts, cricket, cycling, field hockey, football, religious events, rugby league, rugby union and tennis. In 1956, the venue hosted several sports for the world famous Games of the Olympiad. One of those sports was football, the most popular sport in the world. The gold medal match was won by the national football team of the USSR after defeating Yugoslavia. 86,000 people attended the football match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The venue also hosted the bronze medal match, which was won by Bulgaria after defeating India 3-0.

In 1970, the record attendance for an AFL match was set at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, when 121,000 people visited the Australian football game between Carlton and Collingwood. In 2015, a new record attendance for a football match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground was broken, when 99,000 people showed up for a match between Real Madrid CF from Spain and Manchester City FC from the United Kingdom. Cristiano Ronaldo, the first athlete with 100 million followers on his main social media page, scored one goal for Real Madrid in the match. In 2014, Real Madrid became the first football club with 10 European championship titles. The same year, they won the FIFA Club World Cup for the first time in their history.

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