Stadium
- Ohio Stadium; Columbus, Ohio (1996–1999)
- Columbus Crew Stadium; Columbus, Ohio (1999–present)
- Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium; Columbus, Ohio (2005) 1 game in US Open Cup
Initially the Columbus Crew played their home games at the 102,000-capacity Ohio Stadium, home of the Ohio State Buckeyes American college football team. They ended with a 33-20 record while playing there.
On May 15, 1999 the Crew opened Columbus Crew Stadium, the first stadium built specifically for soccer in Major League Soccer, as the Crew beat the New England Revolution 2-0 before a sold-out crowd of 24,741. The stadium was built with simplicity in mind because it was the first of its kind in the United States and so it was done completely from scratch.
It has been the model stadium for the rest of the league and one of the stadiums used by the United States national team in World Cup qualifying.
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Famous quotes containing the word stadium:
“It’s no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the Yankee Stadium of ancient times.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
“In their eyes I have seen
the pin men of madness in marathon trim
race round the track of the stadium pupil.”
—Patricia K. Page (b. 1916)