Bryant-Denny Stadium, located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is the home stadium for the University of Alabama football team. The stadium opened in 1929, and was originally named Denny Stadium, in honor of former Alabama president (and food service mogul) George Hutchenson Denny. However, the stadium’s name was amended to Bryant-Denny Stadium in 1975 after the Alabama legislature chose to honor famed Alabama coach Paul “Bear” Bryant as a partial namesake. It currently has a seating capacity of 92,138+, and is the fourth largest stadium in the SEC, and the seventh largest on-campus stadium in the nation.

* Total seating capacity: 92,138
* The stadium, by capacity, is the second largest sporting events venue in the state, with the largest being the Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, AL (capacity: 143,231).
* All-time attendance record: 92,138 (set on numerous occasions)
o The announced attendance for the 2007 A-Day Game on April 21 was “In Excess of 92,138″. A standing room only crowd was allowed into the stadium for the non-ticketed event, and thousands more were turned away at the gates. It was the largest crowd to witness a spring scrimmage in the history of college football
* The September 2, 2006 matchup vs. Hawaii saw the debut of the newly-expanded stadium.
* All-time win-loss record in stadium: 204-41-3 (82.25 all-time winning percentage)
* Number of skyboxes: 123 (85 added the east side in 1998, 38 added on the north side in 2006)
* The dual LCD ribbon boards are the largest of their kind that can be found in any college football stadium.
* Every home Alabama football game since 1988 has been a sellout.
* The goal posts at Bryant-Denny Stadium have never been torn down in celebration in its seventy-nine year history.

Miyagi Stadium is a football stadium in the town of Rifu in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. The stadium’s capacity is 49,133. The crescent-shaped roof extending past the edge of the stadium is meant to evoke images of Date Masamune, a Daimyo of Mutsu Province, which included the present-day Miyagi Prefecture.

Miyagi Stadium hosted three matches in the 2002 World Cup, and also hosted the 56th National Sports Festival of Japan in 2001.

The soccer field, is surrounded by a nine-lane track. A large video screen and scoreboard is installed in the northern end.

The Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho, commonly called Estádio do Maracan? (”Maracan? stadium”), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is one of the largest football stadiums in the world. Owned by the Rio de Janeiro State Government, it is named after the Maracan? neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. It was opened in 1950 to host the FIFA World Cup. Since then, it has mainly been used for football matches between the biggest football clubs in Rio de Janeiro, including Flamengo, Botafogo, Fluminense and sometimes the Vasco da Gama. It has also hosted a number of concerts and other sporting events. Although the paid attendance at the deciding game of the 1950 FIFA World Cup was 199,500, the stadium currently seats 95,000 spectators.

It will host the World Cup Final in 2014, becoming the second stadium to host football’s most important match twice after the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City.