Soweto Cricket Oval
Soweto Cricket Oval is a multi purpose in City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa that opened in 1973. Its recorded capacity is 8,000.
Key facts
Soweto Cricket Oval is a multi purpose in City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa that opened in 1973. Its recorded capacity is 8,000. No current owner is recorded. The venue does not currently carry a sponsor name.
- Location
- City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
- Type
- Multi purpose
- Capacity
- 8,000
- Opened
- 1973
- Status
- Active
- Current owner
- Not recorded
- Naming rights
- No current sponsor name
- Name changes
- 0
Soweto Cricket Oval is at latitude -26.265, longitude 27.867361, in City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa. 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 | -26.265 |
| Longitude | 27.867361 |
| City | City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality |
| Region | City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality |
| Country | South Africa |
| OpenStreetMap object | Not recorded |
| Footprint geometry | Not yet exported by the pipeline |
Naming rights
Soweto Cricket Oval has carried 1 recorded name. Elkah Cricket Stadium, Morocco End, School End (no sponsor) ran Present.
Data table for this chart
| Name | Sponsor | Period | Deal value | Term | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elkah Cricket Stadium, Morocco End, School End | None | Present | Not published | Not published | Wikipedia infobox | Source |
Ownership and operation
No ownership or operator rows are recorded for this venue.
Tenants
No tenants are recorded for this venue.
Recorded changes
3 changes to this venue have been recorded by the monthly pipeline runs.
| Date | Table | Field | From | To | Month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 October 2026 | venue_names | (created) | not set | Elkah Cricket Stadium, Morocco End, School End | 2026-10 |
| 22 October 2026 | venues | wikipedia_revid | not set | 1372231667 | 2026-10 |
| 22 October 2026 | venues | wikipedia_title | Soweto_Cricket_Oval | Soweto Cricket Oval | 2026-10 |
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: