Oppenheimer Stadium is a football (soccer)

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 stadium in Orkney, South Africa. It currently has a capacity of 23,000, but that will be increased to 40,000 for the 2010 Football World Cup.

The existing earth embankments around the stadium will be enlarged by creating a new reinforced concrete structure at the rear and building upwards.

The size of the arena will be further increased by the removal of the athletics track, enabling in front of the first row of seats and creating girth for further rows to be installed.

Then, the existing roof of the main stand will be removed and replaced by a new roof covering the extended main stand.

It was named after Harry Oppenheimer

Harry Oppenheimer

Harry Frederick Oppenheimer was a prominent South African businessman and one of the world's richest men...

, son of Ernest Oppenheimer

Ernest Oppenheimer

Sir Ernest Oppenheimer was a diamond and gold mining entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist, who controlled De Beers and founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa.-Career:...

 and former chairman of De Beers.

On the 13 January 1991, during a pre-season "friendly" football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 match between Kaizer Chiefs

Kaizer Chiefs Football Club

Kaizer Chiefs is a South African football club based in Johannesburg that plays in the Premier Soccer League.The team is nicknamed Amakhosi which means "lords" or "chiefs" in Zulu and Phefeni Glamour Boys. They currently play most of their home games at Soccer City in Nasrec, Soweto, which is...

 and Orlando Pirates, there was a stampede with 42 deaths, the Oppenheimer Stadium Disaster, the second worst sporting incident in South Africa.