Official page of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia's famous sporting stadium.
The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) is Australia's largest, oldest and most popular sporting stadium.
The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) has hosted plenty of international cricket, including the first-ever cricket Test (1877), the 1992 Cricket World Cup final, countless VFL/AFL Grand Finals, and the 1956 Olympic Games.
It will also host the ICC Cricket World Cup Final in 2015.
Other sporting spectacles that have been held there are Australian World Cup soccer qualifiers, rugby league home and away matches and State of Origin, international rugby union clashes and the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
Apart from its sporting events, the MCG has also witnessed many blockbuster music concerts, and even Pope John Paul II held a mass there when he visited Melbourne in 1986.
The stadium also houses the National Sports Museum (http://www.facebook.com/nationalsportsmuseum), which includes some of the most priceless pieces of memorabilia in Australian sporting history.
The MCG has a total capacity of 100,024 people.
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- Sports venue