FOOTBALL VENUE
Benni’s Cape Town City return to spiritual home
Owner John Comitis and his ambitious club are looking for a 20-year deal
Cape Town City have returned to their spiritual home at Hartleyvale Stadium‚ now using the venue as a training facility but they are planning to build a 10‚000-seater stadium. The club have been negotiating to use the municipal-owned facility with the Cape Town city council for more than a year and have signed a five-year lease. Owner John Comitis and his ambitious club are looking for a 20-year deal in order to build their own stadium. Hartleyvale was the Mecca of Cape Town football in the 1970s and ’80s when the previous City franchise played there. But over the last decades the venue has fallen into disrepair with the grandstand partially removed and the rest condemned. The remaining part of the main grandstand will soon be bulldozed‚ with the rest of the venue surrounded by grass banks. The pitch has been significantly improved‚ as City coach Benni McCarthy enthused: "You get that love back for football again because the pitch is unbelievable‚" he said. "When I was growing up th...
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