Obafemi Awolowo Stadium

Obafemi Awolowo Stadium is a stadium in Ibadan, Nigeria that opened in 1960. Its recorded capacity is 25,000.

Key facts

Obafemi Awolowo Stadium is a stadium in Ibadan, Nigeria that opened in 1960. Its recorded capacity is 25,000. No current owner is recorded. The venue does not currently carry a sponsor name. It has been known by 2 names in total, including Liberty Stadium. Current tenants are Shooting Stars SC.

Location: Ibadan, Nigeria
Type: Stadium
Capacity: 25,000
Opened: 1960
Status: Active
Current owner: Not recorded
Naming rights: No current sponsor name
Name changes: 0

Location of Obafemi Awolowo Stadium

Obafemi Awolowo Stadium is at latitude 7.366111, longitude 3.874167, in Ibadan, Nigeria. The marker is drawn from the recorded coordinates. The building outline appears here once OpenStreetMap footprint geometry is available for this venue.

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Recorded location of Obafemi Awolowo Stadium
Field	Value
Latitude	7.366111
Longitude	3.874167
City	Ibadan
Region	Ibadan
Country	Nigeria
OpenStreetMap object	Not recorded
Footprint geometry	Not yet exported by the pipeline

Naming rights

Naming history of Obafemi Awolowo Stadium

Obafemi Awolowo Stadium has carried 1 recorded name. Liberty Stadium (no sponsor) ran until 2010.

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Every recorded name of Obafemi Awolowo Stadium, with sponsor, dates and source
Name	Sponsor	Period	Deal value	Term	Confidence	Source
Liberty Stadium	None	until 2010	Not published	Not published	Wikipedia, with citation	Source

Ownership and operation

No ownership or operator rows are recorded for this venue.

Tenants

Tenants of Obafemi Awolowo Stadium and the competitions they play in
Tenant	Competitions	Period	Status	Source
Shooting Stars SC	Not mapped	Present	Current	Source

Recorded changes

7 changes to this venue have been recorded by the monthly pipeline runs.

Change log for Obafemi Awolowo Stadium
Date	Table	Field	From	To	Month
28 September 2026	venue_names	source_date	2026-09-23	2026-09-28	2026-09
23 September 2026	venue_names	source_date	2026-09-20	2026-09-23	2026-09
23 September 2026	venues	opened_year	not set	1960	2026-09
23 September 2026	venues	wikipedia_revid	not set	1370251880	2026-09
23 September 2026	venues	wikipedia_title	Obafemi_Awolowo_Stadium	Obafemi Awolowo Stadium	2026-09
20 September 2026	venue_names	(created)	not set	Liberty Stadium	2026-09
20 September 2026	venue_roles	(created)	not set	9165	2026-09

Sources and licenses

Every ownership, naming and sponsorship row on this page carries the URL it was derived from. The site as a whole is built from these sources:

Wikidata: CC0 1.0. Data from Wikidata, released under CC0 1.0 Universal.
OpenStreetMap: ODbL 1.0. © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0). See https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright.
Wikipedia: CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from Wikipedia, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.

Row-level sources used for this venue:

Wikipedia article: Obafemi Awolowo Stadium (revision 1370251880). Wikidata item: Q1823029.