Details for BC Place Stadium, Vancouver

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The stadium was completed in 1983, built as part of the preparation for Expo 86. It is the world's largest air-supported domed stadium and can seat 60,000 in its mixture of permanent and portable light-blue plastic seats. It was originally occupied by the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League and the Vancouver Whitecaps of the North American Soccer League in the early 80s. The Vancouver Whitecaps played the first sporting event in the stadium in 1983, against the Seattle Sounders. The stadium hosted Grey Cup games in 1983, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1994, 1999, and 2005, perhaps the most thrilling account being the 1994 Grey Cup in which the hometown Lions defeated the U.S. expansion Baltimore Football Club on a last-second field goal, preventing the Grey Cup trophy from leaving Canada. It is operated by a division of PavCo (BC Pavilion Corporation), a Crown Corporation in the province of British Columbia. The stadium is the future host of the 2010 Winter Olympics opening and closing ceromonies.