Sam Nujoma Stadium (also called the Sam Nujoma Soccer Stadium or SNSS) is a

football (soccer) Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

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Katutura Katutura (Otjiherero for ''The place where people do not want to live'') is a township of Windhoek, Khomas Region, Namibia. Katutura was created in 1961 following the forced removal of Windhoek's black population from the Old Location, which a ...

Windhoek Windhoek (, , ) is the capital and largest city of Namibia. It is located in central Namibia in the Khomas Highland plateau area, at around above sea level, almost exactly at the country's geographical centre. The population of Windhoek in 20 ...

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. The stadium holds 10,300 and was finished in 2005. It is named after the former Namibian president

Sam Nujoma Samuel Shafiishuna Daniel Nujoma, (; born 12 May 1929) is a Namibian revolutionary, anti-apartheid activist and politician who served three terms as the first President of Namibia, from 1990 to 2005. Nujoma was a founding member and the first ...

.http://www.windhoekcc.org.na/Repository/News&Publications/Press/MediaStatementSNSS.pdf New Stadium Sam Nujoma "The City of Windhoek, at the June Council meeting, endorsed and approved the name of the new Soccer Stadium in Katutura as Sam Nujoma Soccer Stadium." the stadium is not in use due to safety concerns from "structural defects". The

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(CAF) has decommissioned the stadium in 2021 for it being sub-standard, and no other Namibian stadium meets CAF's requirements. As a result, international games of the

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will have to be played abroad.

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Football venues in Namibia Buildings and structures in Windhoek Sport in Windhoek Sports venues completed in 2005 {{Namibia-sports-venue-stub

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