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Etihad
Stadium - Sportscity
The City of Manchester Stadium, now the Etihad, is
located on Ashton New Road at the corner with Alan
Turing Way. It was originally designed as part of
Manchester's bid for the 2000 Summer Olympics.
That bid failed but the stadium survived and it was
eventually built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games at a
cost of £110 million. The image below shows
it at that time.  (The image above is
shown with the permission of the Greater Manchester
Police Museum and Archive.
 After the Games, it was converted for use as a football ground, and became the home of Manchester City F.C. who moved there from their long-term home Maine Road in 2003.   The stadium is
bowl-shaped, with two tiers all the way around the
ground and a third tier along the two side stands. It
has a seating capacity of 47,726.
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