Six Nations venues - Millennium Stadium

Capacity 74,500

The Millennium Stadium is the national stadium of Wales, located in the capital, Cardiff.

It is the home of the Wales national rugby union team and the Wales national football team but is also host to many other large scale events.

It was built ready for Cardiff to host the 1999 Rugby World Cup.

The Millennium Stadium is owned by Millennium Stadium plc which is a subsidiary company of the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU).

The stadium was designed by a team led by architects Lobb Sport Architecture, who merged to become HOK Sport Venue Event, they are now known as Populous.

WS Atkins were the structural engineers and the building contractor was Laing. The total construction cost of the stadium was GB£121 million, of which the Millennium Commission funded £46m.

The stadium opened in June 1999,and the first major event to be held was an international rugby union match on 26 June 1999, when Wales beat South Africa in a friendly by 29-19, before a test crowd of 29,000.

It is the second largest stadium in the world with a fully retractable roof and was only the second stadium in Europe to have this facility.

It is the fourth largest stadium in the Six Nations Championship behind Twickenham, Stade de France and Croke Park, which is the largest.