He British Columbia location This is the stadium where the local team plays Vancouver Whitecaps in the MLS, as well as the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League. The Canada Sevens are held there every year, as well as the BC Sports Hall of Fame.
BC Place is located on the north side of False Creek in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and can accommodate just over 22,000 people during MLS games.
The stadium opened on June 19, 1983 and originally featured an inflatable roof. After the 2010 Winter Olympics, it was closed for 16 months to undergo a renovation process: BC Place now had a retractable roof, which at the time was the largest in the world.
BC Place for the main stadium of the 2010 Olympic Games, the 2010 Paralympic Games, and the Concacaf Women’s Championship for the 2012 Olympic Games. of football.
BC Place was erected for use at the 1986 World’s Fair (“Expo 86”) and opened on June 19, 1983. The first event held there was a game between the Vancouver Whitecaps and the Seattle Sounders, within the North American Soccer League (NASL), which brought together 60,342 spectators.
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Since September 2015, it has had a new artificial playing surface, installed before the development of the FIFA Women’s World Cup that year. At this time, the scoreboard and the electronic board which hangs from the roof of the stadium, and which measures 21 x 12 meters, were also installed.
Additionally, BC Place hosted the Gray Cup (the title game of the CFL, Canada’s version of the NFL) in 1983, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1994, 1999, 2005, 2011 and 2014.
The stadium was built to be able to house a Major League Baseball franchise in the future.
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