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- Multi-purpose_stadium abstract "Multi-purpose stadiums are a type of stadium designed to be easily used by multiple types of events. While any stadium could potentially host more than one type of sport or event, this concept usually refers to a specific design philosophy that stresses multi-functionality over specificity. It is used most commonly in Canada and the United States, where the two most popular outdoor team sports – gridiron football and baseball – require radically different facilities. Football uses a rectangular field (Canadian football fields are larger than American ones), while baseball is played on a diamond. This requires a particular design to accommodate both, usually an oval. While building stadiums in this way means that sports teams and governments can share costs, it also imposes some challenges.In North America, multi-purpose stadiums were built primarily during the 1960s and 1970s as shared home stadiums for Major League Baseball and National Football League or Canadian Football League teams. Some stadiums were renovated to allow multi-purpose configurations during the 1980s. This type of stadium is associated with an era of suburbanization, in which many sports teams followed their fans out of large cities into areas with cheaper, plentiful land. They were usually built near highways and had large parking lots but were rarely connected to public transit. As multi-purpose stadiums were rarely ideal for both sports usually housed in them, they had fallen out of favor by the 1990s. With the completion of the Truman Sports Complex in Kansas City in 1973, a model for purpose-built stadiums was laid down. Since Oriole Park at Camden Yards opened in 1992, most major league sports stadiums have been built specifically for one sport.Outside North America, the term is rarely used, since soccer is the only major outdoor team sport in many countries; in some countries soccer and rugby can easily co-exist, with Australia and South Africa being notable examples. In other countries, such as England, teams rarely share facilities. In Australia, many sports grounds are suited to both Australian rules football and cricket, as Aussie rules was originally conceived for play on cricket fields. Soccer stadiums have historically served as track and field arenas as well and some (like the Olympiastadion in Berlin) still do, whereas a newer generation frequently has no running track to get the fans closer to the field.".
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- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink 1930_British_Empire_Games.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink 1976_Summer_Olympics.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink 1978_Commonwealth_Games.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink 1992_Major_League_Baseball_season.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink 1996_Summer_Olympics.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink 2001_World_Championships_in_Athletics.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink 2003_Heritage_Classic.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink 2006_FIFA_World_Cup.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink 2010_Winter_Olympics.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink 2011_California_Golden_Bears_football_team.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink 2011_Heritage_Classic.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink 2015_Pan_American_Games.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink AT&T_Park.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink AWD-Arena.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Adelaide_Oval.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Air-supported_structure.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Alamodome.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink All-weather_running_track.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink American_football.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Angel_Stadium_of_Anaheim.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Anglophone_Caribbean.
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- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Arrowhead_Stadium.
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- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Athletics_at_the_1976_Summer_Olympics.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Atlanta_Committee_for_the_Olympic_Games.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Atlanta_Fulton_County_Stadium.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Atlanta–Fulton_County_Stadium.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Atlantic_Canada.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Australia.
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- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Beef_O_Bradys_Bowl.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Bills_Toronto_Series.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Brisbane.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Brooklyn_Bolts.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Buffalo,_New_York.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Buffalo_Bills.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Buffalo_Bisons.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Busch_Memorial_Stadium.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Cactus_Bowl.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink California_Golden_Bears_football.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink California_Memorial_Stadium.
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- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Canada.
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- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Candlestick_Park.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Carrier_Dome.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Category:Multi-purpose_stadiums.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Category:Stadiums.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Centennial_Olympic_Stadium.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Central_Broward_Regional_Park.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink CenturyLink_Field.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Chase_Field.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Chicago_Bears.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Chicago_Cardinals_(NFL,_1920–1959).
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Chicago_Cubs.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Cisco_Field.
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- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Citrus_Bowl.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink City_of_Manchester_Stadium.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Cleveland.
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- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Coca-Cola_Field.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink College_World_Series.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Comiskey_Park.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Commerzbank-Arena.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Commonwealth_Caribbean.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Commonwealth_Games.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Commonwealth_Stadium_(Edmonton).
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Comparison_of_American_and_Canadian_football.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Coppa_Italia.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Cricket.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Detroit_Lions.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Docklands_Stadium.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Dodger_Stadium.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Downtown_Atlanta.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink East_Rutherford,_New_Jersey.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Eden_Park.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Edmonton_Eskimos.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Ellis_Park_Stadium.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Empire_Field.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink England.
- Multi-purpose_stadium wikiPageWikiLink Estádio_da_Luz.