MCG, Melbourne Cricket Ground, established in 1853, less than 20 years after the founding of Melbourne. It has been the home of Australian football since 1859 and was the birthplace of Test cricket in 1877 and one-day international cricket in 1971.
It is the 10th-largest stadium in the world, the largest in Australia, the largest in the Southern Hemisphere, the largest cricket ground by capacity, and has the tallest light towers of any sporting venue. Until the 1970s, the capacity was 120,000 people with the record crowd standing at around 130,000 for a Billy Graham evangelistic crusade in 1959, followed by 121,696 for the 1970 VFL Grand Final. Now the maximum seating capacity is approximately 95,000 with an additional 5000 standing room capacity, bringing the total capacity to 100,024.