Estadio de Malabo

{{short description|Stadium in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea}}

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| location = Malabo, Equatorial Guinea

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| tenants = Equatorial Guinea national football team

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Estadio de Malabo is a multi-purpose stadium in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, opened in 2007 and currently used mostly for football matches. With a seating capacity of about 15,250, it serves as the home ground of the Equatorial Guinea national football team.

It was one of the host stadiums for the 2012 and 2015 editions of the Africa Cup of Nations as well as the scene for the final of the 2008 African Women's Championship. Local football teams Atlético Malabo, Atlético Semu, Deportivo Unidad, Sony Elá Nguema, The Panthers and Vegetarianos all play their league games at this stadium.

It sits on the site of the original national stadium where 186 political opponents of the inaugural president of Equatorial Guinea, Francisco Macías Nguema, were killed. On 24 December 1969, 150 of them were either shot by a firing squad or hanged while Mary Hopkin's rendition of "Those Were the Days" was played on the stadium's speakers. The remaining 36 were then forced to dig ditches which they were buried up to their necks in afterwards, and eaten alive by red ants over the following days.{{cite book|author=Suzanne Cronjé|title=Equatorial Guinea, the forgotten dictatorship: forced labour and political murder in central Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8GN0AAAAMAAJ&q=christmas|year=1976|publisher=Anti-Slavery Society|isbn=978-0-900918-05-6}} A common claim made is that the executioners wore Santa Claus costumes, however, this is widely considered to be a sensationalist fabrication.{{cite web| url= https://www.executedtoday.com/2017/12/24/1969-equatorial-guineas-christmas-eve-executions/ |title= 1969: Equatorial Guinea's Christmas Eve executions| website= executedtoday.com| publisher= | date= 2017-12-24| access-date= }}