Cairo International Stadium

Cairo International Stadium

ستاد القاهرة الدولي
Full name	Cairo International Stadium
Former names	Nasser Stadium
Location	Nasr City, Cairo
Public transit	Stadium station Fair zone station Stadium Monorail station
Capacity	75,000
Record attendance	130,000 (1969)
Surface	Desso GrassMaster
Construction
Built	1955–1960
Opened	23 July 1960
Renovated	2005, 2019
Architect	Werner March
Structural engineer	ACE Moharram Bakhoum
Tenants
Egypt national football team (1960–2024) Zamalek Al Ahly

The Cairo International Stadium (Arabic: ستاد القاهرة الدولي), formerly known as Nasser Stadium, is an Olympic-standard, multi-use stadium with an all-seated capacity of 75,000.^[1] The architect of the stadium is the German Werner March, who designed the Olympic Stadium in Berlin from 1934 to 1936. The engineering and construction supervision of the stadium was performed by ACE Moharram Bakhoum. It is the 69th largest stadium in the world and the 3rd largest stadium in Egypt. Located in Nasr City; a suburb north east of Cairo, it was completed in 1960, and was inaugurated by President Gamal Abd El Nasser on 23 July that year which coincided with the eighth anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 ^{[citation needed]}