National Olympic Stadium (old)

History

Baku Olympic Stadium (Azerbaijani: Bakı Olimpiya Stadionu) is a stadium, designed and constructed to meet the international standards for stadiums set by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) and the World Athletics. Having seating capacity for 69,870 people, it is the largest stadium in Azerbaijan. Despite the name, it has never hosted and is not scheduled to host any competition of the Olympic Games. Construction of the 205,000-square-metre (2,210,000 sq ft) stadium on a 500,000-square-metre (5,380,000 sq ft) site was completed in February 2015.