Yadegar-e-Emam Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium

Multi-purpose stadium

Multi-purpose stadiums are a type of stadium designed in such a way as to be easily used by multiple sports. While any stadium could potentially host more than one sport, this concept usually refers to a specific design philosophy that stresses multi-functionality over specificity...

 in Tabriz

Tabriz

Tabriz is the fourth largest city and one of the historical capitals of Iran and the capital of East Azerbaijan Province. Situated at an altitude of 1,350 meters at the junction of the Quri River and Aji River, it was the second largest city in Iran until the late 1960s, one of its former...

, Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

, and is the second largest stadium in Iran. It is currently used mostly for football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 matches. The stadium was built in 1996 and has a capacity of 70,000 people. Tractor Sazi F.C.-Machine Sazi Tabriz F.C.

Machine Sazi Tabriz F.C.

Machine Sazi Tabriz F.C. is an Iranian football club based in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan. They currently play the Azadegan League...

-Shahrdari Tabriz F.C.

Shahrdari Tabriz F.C.

Shahrdari Tabriz Cultural and Athletic Club is an Iranian sports club most widely known for its professional football team based in Tabriz, Iran.They currently compete in the Iran Pro League, the first tier of Iranian football.-The birth of Shahrdari Tabriz F.C...

-Petrochimi Tabriz F.C.

Petrochimi Tabriz F.C.

Petrochimi Tabriz Football Club is an Iranian football club based in Tabriz, Azerbaijan Province. They were founded in 2001 and will participate as a professional club in the Azadegan League 2008-09....

 play some of their big games at the stadium.

Built

It was built in 1989 and was opened in 19 January 1996 when President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani officially opened it.

Renovation

In December 2006 5,000 new seats were installed, and a large jumbotron television was added, along with general repairs costing 350 million toman

Iranian toman

The toman , is a superunit of the official currency of Iran, the rial. Toman, derived from a Mongolian word meaning ten thousand , was the currency of Iran until 1932. It was divided into 10,000 dinar. Between 1798 and 1825, the toman was also subdivided into 8 rial, each of 1250 dinar...

. Its renovation ended in October 2010.