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Oppenheimer Stadium is a football (soccer) stadium in Orkney, South Africa. It currently has a capacity of 23,000, but that will be increased to 40,000 for the 2010 Football World Cup. The existing earth enbankments around the stadium will be enlarged by creating a new reinforced concrete structure at the rear and building upwards. The size of the arena will be further increased by the removal of the athletics track, enabling in front of the first row of seats and creating room for further rows to be installed. Then, the existing roof of the main stand will be removed and replaced by a new roof covering the extended main stand. It was named after Harry Oppenheimer, son of Ernest Oppenheimer and former chairman of De Beers. Local training venues to be used are:
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