Ramat Gan Stadium, football stadium in Ramat Gan, Israel
Ramat Gan Stadium is a football venue located in a suburb just outside Tel Aviv. The facility features a grass field measuring 105 by 68 meters, multiple dressing rooms, press areas, conference halls, and a lighting system producing up to 1,550 lux to support evening matches.
Construction began in April 1950, and the stadium opened on 27 September 1950 with the ceremony of the 3rd Maccabiah Games, then holding 16,000 seats and 35,000 standing places. Its first football match, on 30 May 1951, was Maccabi Tel Aviv against Dundee United before more than 40,000 spectators. It served as Israel's national stadium until 2014, when the national team's home matches moved elsewhere.
The stadium hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the Maccabiah Games, the "Jewish Olympics", from the third edition in 1950 and every four years after, 15 times in all; the 1981 ceremony was the first held at night under floodlights. Its pitch has also drawn Depeche Mode, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Madonna, who opened her 2012 MDNA Tour here before a sold-out crowd of over 33,000.
The stadium is accessible by train via the Ben-Gurion Yarkon Railway Line, stopping directly at the adjacent Bnei Brak station. A large car park with nearly 4,000 spaces serves visitors, and a roofed cafe-restaurant is located on the grounds.
The stadium's record attendance came on 16 June 1976, when 55,000 watched Beitar Jerusalem play Maccabi Tel Aviv in the State Cup final, the largest crowd in Israeli football history. The pitch is 105 by 68 metres, and the floodlights reach 1,550 lux.
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