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Built for the 2010 FIFA World Cup and opened in December 2009 in the Green Point area of central Cape Town, the DHL Stadium, originally and still commonly known as Cape Town Stadium, sits in the open green belt between the Atlantic seaboard and the harbour with the granite mass of Signal Hill rising directly behind. The stadium was designed by the German architecture firm GMP Architekten von Gerkan, Marg and Partners in partnership with the South African firm Louis Karol Architects, replacing the older Green Point Stadium that had stood on the same site since 1903. The principal capacity sits at 55,000 spectators for football and rugby matches, expandable to 68,000 for the wider 2010 World Cup tournament through additional temporary upper tier seating, with the current default configuration optimised for the various tenant rugby, football and concert formats. The exterior of the building is wrapped in a perforated white fibreglass mesh skin that filters the wider Cape Town daylight and gives the structure its distinctive translucent appearance against the surrounding mountain backdrop. A retractable inner roof of cabled lightweight fabric covers the principal stand seating areas while leaving the playing surface open to the sky. The stadium hosted eight matches during the 2010 World Cup including a semi-final between Germany and Spain, and has since served as the principal home ground of the DHL Stormers in Super Rugby and the Cape Town Stadium concert venue for the principal touring international artists visiting South Africa. The naming rights were acquired by the German logistics company DHL in 2021. The wider Green Point Urban Park around the stadium covers approximately 12 hectares of public garden, the principal Cape Town municipal golf course and a wider network of walking and cycling paths between the city and the harbour. The wider Cape Town Stadium hosted the principal opening match of the 2010 World Cup tournament for the wider Group F between Italy and Paraguay on 14 June 2010, alongside subsequent group stage fixtures and the principal semi-final between Germany and Spain on 7 July 2010 that Spain won 1 to 0 to advance to the final in Johannesburg. The principal subsequent permanent tenancy passed to the DHL Stormers of the United Rugby Championship in 2021, replacing the older Newlands rugby ground in the southern suburbs that had been the principal Stormers home ground across the wider Super Rugby era. The wider Green Point district immediately around the stadium also includes the Cape Town Athletics Stadium, the principal SuperSport Park training facility and the wider Mouille Point seaboard promenade leading west toward the Sea Point and Camps Bay coastal districts.