General Information

The Estadio Azul, a 35,000-seat stadium in Mexico City is currently used for association football matches and previously (until 1990) it was a site for American football. The stadium is the home of Mexican football club Cruz Azul; it has also been home for Atlante F.C. and hosted several home matches of the Mexican national football team, especially in the early 1990s.

Additional Information

Both times when Mexico hosted the World Cup, the Estadio Azul did not host any games, mainly due to the age of the structure, bad parking facilities and complex traffic patterns. A peculiarity of this stadium is that it was built as a pit – the playing field is below street level. Another oddity is that just beside the stadium there is the Plaza México, the world’s largest bullring.