Azteca from Satellite View - Football Stadium

Azteca

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📍 Coordinates 19.3029, -99.1506

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About Azteca

The Estadio Azteca is a multi-purpose stadium located in Mexico City. It is the official home of the football club Club América and the Mexico national football team. The stadium sits at an altitude of 2,200 m (7,200 ft) above sea level. With an official capacity of 87,523, it is the largest stadium in Mexico and one of the largest in the world.

Regarded as one of the most famous and iconic football stadiums in the world, it is the first to have hosted two FIFA World Cup Finals: in 1970 and 1986. It was the venue for the "Game of the Century" (Italy vs. West Germany) and the "Hand of God" goal by Diego Maradona. The stadium has also hosted the 1968 Summer Olympics football tournament.

The massive concrete structure was designed by architects Pedro Ramírez Vázquez and Rafael Mijares Alcérreca. Its roof, which "hovers" over the stands, was designed to amplify the noise of the crowd, creating an overwhelming atmosphere for visiting teams. It remains a fortress for the Mexican national team, El Tri.

The ground is owned by Grupo Televisa via its subsidiary Ollamani, which acquired the venue and Club América together in a corporate spin-off completed on 3 April 2024 after decades of joint ownership dating back to the 1966 Emilio Azcárraga Milmo consortium that originally financed construction. The 63-hectare plot at Calzada de Tlalpan 3465 in the Santa Úrsula Coapa district was purchased from ejidal cooperative farmers in 1961 for a reported 12.5 million Mexican pesos of the day, and the stadium footprint sits atop volcanic bedrock (pedregal) laid down during the eruption of the Xitle volcano approximately 1,670 years ago. A 62.7-million-dollar reconstruction announced in December 2023 will reduce capacity to 83,264 seats ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup opening match on 11 June 2026.

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At zoom 16, Estadio Azteca is a massive oval bowl visible in the southern suburbs of Mexico City (Coyoacán district). Its enormous footprint is immediately apparent — it is one of the largest stadiums in the Americas. The surrounding area is densely urban with a large car park and access roads. The distinctive concrete exterior structure and the open-top design are visible from satellite. A large entertainment complex (Six Flags México) sits nearby to the south.

Additional recognition clues help orient any observer. Ollamani's Casa Club training complex is faintly visible 400 metres north-northeast as a rectangular auxiliary pitch and a small three-storey block. The elevated Line 2 tramway of the Xochimilco light rail (Tren Ligero) runs immediately east along Calzada de Tlalpan and its Estadio Azteca station platform edges are recognisable as two thin parallel bright lines. The vast surface car park on the west side, dimensioned for 8,600 vehicles, forms an unmistakable pale grey L-shape wrapping around the bowl. To the immediate southeast the Six Flags México amusement park occupies a wooded 39-hectare parcel whose rollercoaster tracks trace unmistakable serpentine white lines against the dark forest canopy.

📊 Quick Facts

Capacity 87,523

Opened 1966

Club / Team Club América / Mexico NT

City Mexico City

Country Mexico 🇲🇽

Roof type Partial cantilever, pitch open

Pitch orientation North-South (long axis)

Nearest metro / rail Estadio Azteca (Tren Ligero Line 2)

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The Azteca is the only stadium in the world to have hosted two FIFA World Cup finals — in 1970 (Brazil vs Italy) and 1986 (Argentina vs West Germany), and it will host matches again in the 2026 World Cup.
Diego Maradona's infamous 'Hand of God' goal and his sublime 'Goal of the Century' both occurred at the Azteca during the 1986 World Cup quarter-final against England — within just 4 minutes of each other.
The stadium sits at an altitude of 2,200 metres above sea level, giving home teams a significant physiological advantage — visiting players frequently struggle with the thin air and reduced oxygen levels.
Estadio Azteca was built using a revolutionary technique: the bowl was excavated into volcanic rock (pedregal), and the excavated material was used to build the surrounding embankments, saving enormous construction costs.
On 5 July 1993 the Uruguayan singer Julio Iglesias set a paid attendance world record for a single-artist concert with 143,000 tickets sold, a mark subsequently entered into the Guinness Book of World Records that same December, and the following night US pop group New Kids on the Block drew 141,200 for a second consecutive sold-out show at the same venue
Underneath the pitch runs the primary drainage collector of the ancient Coapa canal system, and during the September 1985 earthquake the ground registered minor cracking in section 7B of the second ring at the Puerta 1 access but the structure was cleared for reopening on 4 October after independent inspection by UNAM engineering faculty geotechnical experts
The ground's inaugural competitive match on 29 May 1966 was a friendly between Club América and Torino FC of Italy, a fixture won 2-2 with goals from Arlindo dos Santos and Roberto Rosato, and the first admission ticket sold on that day carried serial number 000001 and was signed by then-president of the Mexican Football Federation Guillermo Cañedo White as a personal souvenir

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