Cape Town is to get a new 70 000 seat domed Greenpoint soccer stadium in time for the FIFA 2010 Soccer World Cup on the site of the old Green Point track near the existing stadium.

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The new to be designed Greenpoint FIFA World Cup stadium gives the Mother City a serious claim to host glamour ties in the latter stages of the FIFA 2010 World Cup.

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Bid committee chairperson Danny Jordaan said the new Green Point Stadium should be celebrated by Cape Town, as it would accommodate matches past the group stages and well into the knock-out stages of the 2010 World Cup.

Commenting on the announcement of the new stadium in parliament on Monday, Jordaan said the new stadium would definitely be on the final list to be presented to the world body FIFA.

The new stadiums would be owned by the municipalities "Cape Town can certainly celebrate the fact that FIFA and their commercial partners viewed the city as a destination of international stature and that they would like to keep it involved in the 2010 World Cup tournament for as long as possible.

"That would only have been possible with a stadium that has a capacity greater than 40 000. The new stadium has given us as organisers a significant boost."

Details of the new stadium were to be announced by premier Ebrahim Rasool and mayor Nomaindia Mfeketo today at noon, at a media briefing at the Green Point stadium in Cape Town.

Deputy sports minister Gert Oosthuizen announced the Cape Town's venue for the 2010 World Cup during a sitting of parliament on Monday.

He said South Africa would refurbish five existing stadiums and build five new ones in time for the 2010 World Cup soccer showcase.

But can a new stadium be designed and built in Green Point in time? A total of R242-million had been allocated for "planning for the stadiums". Other new stadiums would be built at Polokwane in Limpopo; Mbombela in Mpumalanga, in Port Elizabeth and in Durban.

The announcement ends months of speculation about Cape Town's preferred venue for the World Cup. It also caught local football administrators completely off guard.

The City of Cape Town, the provincial government and the SA Football Association (SAFA) Western Province have at various times put forward Athlone, Newlands rugby stadium and a R460-million new stadium in Delft as proposed sites for the main world cup venue.