Stadium Puskás Ferenc
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Stadium Puskás Ferenc is a multi-purpose stadium in Budapest, Hungary. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The all-seater stadium holds 68,976. The original capacity was 104,000.
It was built between 1948 and 1953 using many volunteers, including soldiers. Less than one year later, on 23 May 1954, England suffered its worst defeat ever here (7-1).
The stadium is named after Ferenc Puskás, widely regarded as the best striker in the world in his time and Hungary’s greatest footballer ever, who was a star of the national team during its glory years of the late 1940s and early 1950s. The stadium was renamed in his honour in 2001 from Népstadion (”People’s Stadium”).
Events
The legendary rock band Queen also performed here on their last tour, in 1986. The concert was filmed with film cameras.
In 1988 the stadium hosted the only stop of the Human Rights Now! tour, with the artists Tracy Chapman, Youssou N’Dour, Peter Gabriel, Sting and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, in a communist country
Monsters of Rock (including AC/DC, Metallica, Mötley Crüe and Queensrÿche) took place at this stadium in 1991 as well.
In 1992 Guns N’ Roses played a legendary concert here. From then many musical acts including Depeche Mode and Robbie Williams performed at the stadium.
It doubled for Munich’s famous Olympic Stadium in Steven Spielberg’s 2005 movie Munich (see List of films shot in Budapest).
