Inside the bowl.

About 80,000 seats in three tiers beneath a web roof, with a 34 m display hanging under the star. Walk through it chapter by chapter.

Explore the roof from above.#

Select a marker or use the list to read about each part of the roof. You can also walk into it in the virtual world.

Overhead render of the stadium roof with markers.

Enter the virtual world

The star opening

A five point opening of about 5,248 m² at the crown of the roof, framed by a lit ring beam. Daylight, air and the sky enter the bowl through the national symbol.

Green, yellow, red.#

Supporters in Ghana colours waving flags in the lower stand of a full stadium. — Supporters in the lower tier, with the yellow and red tiers rising behind.

The lower tier is green, the middle tier yellow and the upper tier red. Black stars are set into the yellow seating only, so the national symbol sits at the centre of the bowl just as it sits at the centre of the flag.

Adinkra symbols are proposed in the red upper tier: Gye Nyame, Dwennimmen and Sankofa.

Lower tier: 25,986
Middle tier: 15,654 + 374 VVIP/VIP
Upper tier: 38,076
Skyboxes: 640 (40 × 16)
Wheelchair positions: 144 + companions

Counted seats from the P01 schedule, total 80,874. Preliminary, not a certified capacity.

A football pitch first.#

The P01 drawings show a 105 × 68 m natural hybrid football pitch with run off and a technical area on the long touchline.

Some renders show an athletics track around the pitch. Whether the stadium should carry a permanent track, a temporary overlay or none at all has not been decided, and the drawings and renders differ on this point. It is listed as an open question on the roadmap.

Footballers training on a grass pitch beside low academy buildings and floodlight masts. — Pitch level view. The stadium pitch itself would follow the same natural hybrid specification, subject to agronomy and climate studies.

A ring of light over the centre circle.#

Stadium interior looking across a floodlit pitch toward a main stand with a glazed central box and a circular display overhead. — Looking back across the pitch to the main stand and the glazed presidential box.

A 34 m circular display is suspended beneath the star opening. Its band carries the national colours, with the star held inside the yellow.

Two internal LED ribbons run around the bowl between the tiers, and pitchside LED boards frame the field for advertising and match information.

Dugouts beside the tunnel.#

Pitchside view of two glass capsule dugouts with gold ends either side of a central players' tunnel, in front of a full stand. — The players' tunnel at the centre of the touchline, between two glass dugouts with gold end caps.

Premium dugouts sit on the long touchline either side of the players' tunnel, so teams walk straight from the dressing rooms to the technical area.

Hospitality on Level 01.#

Club and VVIP areas sit at Level 01, about 12 metres above the pitch, with skyboxes and media at Level 02. A separate, secure VVIP arrival court serves the presidential box and suite. Detailed security layouts are not published.

Main stand with a glazed central box marked with a star, VIP seating either side and a stadium name band below. — The glazed presidential box at the centre of the main stand, flanked by VIP seating.

Wood panelled suite with a dining table, armchairs and a full height window overlooking the stadium bowl. — The suite behind the presidential box, with full height glazing to the bowl.

Busy hospitality lounge with a bar, seating and a wide window onto the stadium. — A club lounge on Level 01, opening onto the bowl.

Executive box with sofas, a buffet counter and a glass front overlooking the stadium. — One of the skyboxes on Level 02, each with its own balcony seats.

Row of yellow leather stadium seats with a black star on each headrest, overlooking the pitch. — Padded premium seats with the Black Star stitched into the headrest, in the middle tier.

376 desks and a broadcast centre.#

Journalists working at desks in a stadium press tribune, with a television camera filming the match. — Desk positions for written press in the middle tier of the main stand, with camera platforms alongside.

Broadcast control room with operators at consoles facing walls of screens. — Production and match control facilities for broadcasters.

Press conference room with a top table, a branded backdrop and rows of seats. — Press conference room at pitch level.

Control room with staff at desks and screens overlooking the pitch. — Stadium operations and safety control, overlooking the pitch.

From dressing room to pitch.#

Lit tunnel lined with framed jerseys, boots and trophies, leading toward a bright pitch. — The tunnel doubles as a heritage gallery on the walk to the pitch.

Dressing room with wooden lockers holding red and green jerseys and a black star inlaid in the polished floor. — The home dressing room, with a black star set into the floor.

Dressing room with lockers, benches and a tactics screen. — The away dressing room, matched in size and quality to the home room.

Clinical treatment room with massage tables and medical equipment. — Treatment and preparation space beside the dressing rooms.

Room to move.#

Wide stadium concourse with supporters walking past food kiosks under a lattice ceiling. — The ground level concourse between the glazed facade and the stands.

A glazed public concourse wraps the bowl at ground level, with an upper concourse at Level 03, about 36 metres up. Circulation, exits and evacuation times would be set by fire and crowd safety engineers; they are not designed here.

Concerts, ceremonies and national days.#

The bowl is intended for national ceremonies, concerts, religious and cultural gatherings and other large events. Staging positions, pitch protection and turnaround times are questions for an operating study. The concept does not include a retractable pitch.

The name appears once.#

Crowds walking across a plaza toward the stadium entrance at dusk, with a large black star sculpture in a fountain and a lit LED facade above. — The main public entrance. A black star stands in the fountain on axis with the doors; the stadium name sits on the canopy rim.

Covered drop off court with a white lattice canopy, a red carpet, parked black cars and the stadium's national colour facade behind. — A separate, secure arrival court beneath its own lattice canopy, linked to the VVIP and VIP levels.

Stadium facade at dusk with a curved LED screen showing two black and white portraits between red, yellow and green ribbons, beneath white lattice arches. — The main media facade at night: black and white legend portraits framed by the national colours, above the glazed concourse.

The black and white portraits on the facade show how the screen could honour national sporting figures. Any public use of a real person's likeness would need that person's permission, or their estate's.

Proposal stage visualisations for discussion. Not final, and open to refinement.

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