Description: Stade des Martyrs is a multi-use national stadium in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was built in 1994. It is currently used mostly for football matches, but has also hosted many concerts and can stage athletics. The stadium holds 80,000, making it the highest capacity stadium in Africa as of 2006. [1] Attendance has been known to go well beyond capacity, with spectators numbering upwards of 100,000, for national football matches.
The stadium is located blocks away from Stade Tata Raphaël, the stadium it replaced as Kinshasa's main stadium. |
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