Rose Bowl (stadium)
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The Rose Bowl is a stadium in the Los Angeles suburb of Pasadena, California built in 1923 for American football. Its current official capacity is 92,542.
It is best-known in the United States for its hosting of the Rose Bowl, the most famous college football postseason bowl game. The facility, however, has hosted countless other events. It has been the site of five Super Bowls, and has also been the home football field for UCLA since 1982. It was also the home ground for the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer from the team's inception in 1996 until it moved into the soccer-specific Home Depot Center in 2003.
Perhaps the stadium's most unique honor is that it is one of two stadiums to have hosted the FIFA World Cup finals for both men and women. The Rose Bowl hosted the men's final in 1994 and the women's final in 1999. The other stadium with this honor is the Råsunda Stadium near Stockholm, which hosted the men's final in 1958 and the women's final in 1995.
The 1999 women's final was the most-attended women's sports event in history, with an official attendance of 90,185.
The coliseum is a National Historic Landmark.
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