Cape Town Stadium
The World Cup bowl squeezed between Signal Hill and the Atlantic is still Cape Town's biggest live-sport stage.
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Built for the 2010 FIFA World Cup at 64,100 seats — later trimmed to 55,000 — it is the largest stadium in Cape Town and fifth-largest in South Africa. The Stormers and WP Rugby moved in as home clubs in 2021, Cape Town City FC in 2016, and the South Africa Sevens has been played here every year since 2015. The V&A Waterfront is a short walk away.
What to look for
- The geography: Signal Hill rising sharply on one side, the Atlantic Ocean on the other — a rare stadium setting with a steep hill and open water framing the same view.
- The current 55,000-seat bowl, visibly smaller than its 2010 configuration of 64,100 — the reduction is apparent in the upper tiers.
- The Green Point Athletics Stadium directly adjacent — the rebuilt remnant of the original 18,000-seat Green Point Stadium that was partially demolished to make way for this one.
In Green Point, minutes from the V&A Waterfront; the stadium trades as DHL Stadium on all signage and ticketing since the 2021 naming-rights deal, so search that name when looking up match schedules.
Cape Town Stadium is one of 7 sights worth the detour in Cape Town, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Cape Town pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Cape Town
- Castle of Good HopeSouth Africa's oldest building — a pentagonal VOC fort that once faced the sea and now sits landlocked by centuries of reclaimed ground.
- Table Mountain National ParkThe park runs the full spine of the Cape Peninsula — city overlooks at one end, the most southwestern point of Africa at the other.
- South African Astronomical ObservatoryEvery day at noon, a cannon fires on Signal Hill — triggered by a time signal sent from this observatory.
- Kirstenbosch National Botanical GardenThe world's first garden built exclusively for native plants — founded in 1913 when nobody else thought invasive species were a problem.
- Royal Observatory, Cape of Good HopeThe hill where astronomers first measured the distance to a star — then lost the credit for it.
- The Blue TrainA 27-hour rolling palace between Cape Town and Pretoria — the same carriages that carried Nelson Mandela and Margaret Thatcher across 1,600 kilometres of South Africa.