Stadio San Nicola
Interactive map of Stadio San Nicola | |
| Location | Bari, Italy |
|---|---|
| Owner | Municipality of Bari |
| Capacity | 58,270 |
| Surface | Grass |
| Scoreboard | Tecnovision |
| Field size | 105 by 68 m (344 by 223 ft) |
| Construction | |
| Opened | 1990 |
| Renovated | 2020–2023 |
| Tenants | |
| SSC Bari (1990–present) Italy national football team (selected matches) | |
Stadio San Nicola (English: Saint Nicholas Stadium) is a multi-use all-seater stadium designed by Renzo Piano in Bari, Italy. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of SSC Bari. It replaced their previous home, Stadio della Vittoria, in 1990. The stadium's design resembles a flower. To create this particular design, the stadium consists of 26 'petals' and upper tiers of the higher ring separated by 8-metre empty spaces, sufficient to guarantee satisfactory security conditions.
Being the third largest football stadium in Italy after Milan's San Siro and Rome's Stadio Olimpico; as well as the largest to be used by only one team, San Nicola holds 58,270 people, and was filled to capacity for the first time during a 2013–2014 Serie B playoff match for A.S. Bari in June 2014. Before that, the stadium's largest attendance was 52,000 for an A.S. Bari Serie A match during the 2009–10 season.