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My Dinh National Stadium among best five in Southeast Asia

The My Dinh National Stadium of Vietnam has been ranked among the top five stadiums throughout Southeast Asia in an article recently posted on the homepage of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), according to the Vietnam Football Federation.
My Dinh National Stadium among best five in Southeast Asia ảnh 1My Dinh National Stadium (Photo: AFC)

Hanoi (VNA) - The My Dinh National Stadium of Vietnam has been ranked among the top five stadiums throughout Southeast Asiain an article recently posted on the homepage of the Asian Football Confederation(AFC), according to the Vietnam Football Federation.

The stadium is a multi-purpose venue with a capacity of 40,192 seats. It islocated in the National Sports Complex, approximately 10 kilometres west of thecentre of Hanoi. It opened in 2003 for the 22nd Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 22), and was a key venue inhosting AFC Asian Cup matches in 2007.

Also making the AFC’s top regionalarenas are Stadium Australia in Sydney, Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Indonesia’s Jakarta, Malaysia’s nationalstadium Bukit Jalil in Kuala Lumpur, and Rajamangala Stadium in Thailand’s Bangkok.

The AFC states that stadiumsare more than just iconic architectures. They are homes for clubs, fans and -in some cases - the home venue for national teams.

Asia boasts some of the best stadiums in the world, iconicvenues which regularly see thousands of fans filling the stands to cheer ontheir favourite teams, it added./.
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