Sani Abacha Stadium
Sani Abacha Stadium is a stadium in Kano, Nigeria that opened in 1998. Its recorded capacity is 16,000.
Key facts
Sani Abacha Stadium is a stadium in Kano, Nigeria that opened in 1998. Its recorded capacity is 16,000. No current owner is recorded. The venue does not currently carry a sponsor name. Current tenants are Kano Pillars F.C., Kano Pillars F.C..
- Location
- Kano, Nigeria
- Type
- Stadium
- Capacity
- 16,000
- Opened
- 1998
- Status
- Active
- Current owner
- Not recorded
- Naming rights
- No current sponsor name
- Name changes
- 0
- Playing surface
- Natural grass
Sani Abacha Stadium is at latitude 11.999722, longitude 8.529167, in Kano, Nigeria. The marker is drawn from the recorded coordinates. The building outline appears here once OpenStreetMap footprint geometry is available for this venue.
Data table for this chart
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Latitude | 11.999722 |
| Longitude | 8.529167 |
| City | Kano |
| Region | Kano |
| Country | Nigeria |
| OpenStreetMap object | Not recorded |
| Footprint geometry | Not yet exported by the pipeline |
Technology
| Feature | Recorded as | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface | Natural grass | Wikipedia infobox | Source |
See the venue technology guides for how these work.
Naming rights
No naming history is recorded for this venue.
Ownership and operation
No ownership or operator rows are recorded for this venue.
Tenants
| Tenant | Competitions | Period | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kano Pillars F.C. | Not mapped | Present | Current | Source |
| Kano Pillars F.C. | Not mapped | 1998 to present | Current | Source |
Recorded changes
11 changes to this venue have been recorded by the monthly pipeline runs.
| Date | Table | Field | From | To | Month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 October 2026 | venue_features | (created) | not set | 1728 | 2026-10 |
| 24 September 2026 | org_aliases | (deleted) | Nigerian government | not set | 2026-09 |
| 24 September 2026 | venue_roles | (deleted) | 33995 | not set | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 33996 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 33995 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | org_aliases | (created) | not set | 2288 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | org_aliases | (created) | not set | 2287 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venues | capacity | 25000 | 16000 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venues | wikipedia_revid | not set | 1372228326 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venues | wikipedia_title | Sani_Abacha_Stadium | Sani Abacha Stadium | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 9152 | 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: