ANZ Stadium at Sydney Olympic Park, which held the 2000 Games, will be substantially demolished and rebuilt from 2019, after Allianz Stadium at Moore Park is rebuilt in 2018. This list of closed stadiums by capacity shows demolished, unused, or otherwise closed sports stadiums ordered by their capacity, that is the maximum number of spectators that the stadium could accommodate seated.All stadiums that had a capacity at the time of closing of 25,000 or greater are included. Most of the largest stadiums were used for football (soccer) or American football. Bankwest Stadium in Sydney’s west opened last month, lauded as a “game-changer” by administrators and fans alike following the $360 million rebuild of Parramatta Stadium. Others have called for Allianz Stadium to just be upgraded, rather than demolished. The $729 million knock-down and rebuild of the Sydney Football Stadium has been thrown into chaos after the NSW government said construction giant Lendlease would not complete the project. The Sydney Olympic stadium is doomed for demolition in 2019.
Construction commenced on the 30,000 seat stadium late-2017 on the site of the old Pirtek Stadium which was designed by Cox Architecture and built by Lend Lease in 1986. Sydney Olympic Stadium To Be Demolished In a somewhat controversial move, the NSW State Government has voted in favour of demolishing the Sydney Olympic Stadium in Olympic park, Homebush. While Allianz Stadium is being demolished, the heritage-listed Members' and Ladies' stands of the Sydney Cricket Ground, next door, are being allowed to stay despite being made of wood. “If you’re a club like Sydney FC and you want to delay the start of this stadium, that’s a whole other year that you won’t be able to access this venue,” he said. Live footage of the Sydney Football Stadium at Moore Park shows the interior being dismantled by diggers and bobcats despite ongoing legal challenges over its demolition.
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