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Tallaght Stadium
Location	Whitestown Way, Tallaght, Dublin 24, Ireland
Coordinates	53.283517°N 6.373744°WCoordinates: 53.283517°N 6.373744°W
Broke ground	2000
Opened	2009
Owner	South Dublin County Council
Operator	South Dublin County Council
Construction cost	€11.2 million (to May 2009)[1]
Architect	Martin Noone Architects.
Structural engineer	Muir Assocs.
Services engineer	R N Murphy & Assocs.
Capacity	6,000[2][3]
Tenants
Shamrock Rovers F.C. (League of Ireland) (2009 -)

Tallaght Stadium (Irish: Staid Thamhlachta) is a football stadium in the Southside suburb of Tallaght, Dublin. Shamrock Rovers F.C. originally announced details of the stadium in July 1996.^[4] The stadium is now owned and operated by South Dublin County Council with Shamrock Rovers as the anchor tenants.

Contents [hide] 1 Stadium information 1.1 Megastore and Rovers Café 1.2 Glenmalure Suite 2 History 2.1 Planning disagreements 2.2 Opening and development 2.3 European football 3 Current layout 3.1 Main stand 3.2 East stand 4 Other sports 4.1 Rugby league 4.2 Rugby union 4.3 American football 5 References 6 External links

Stadium information

The main stand seats 3,048^{[citation needed]} and holds home supporters, away supporters, club officials and press. A second stand seating 2,899^{[citation needed]} on the opposite (east) side of the ground, was completed in August 2009. This stand holds the stadium's TV gantry and has brought the seating capacity to 6,000.^[2][3] Both stands are covered. A temporary south stand was constructed over a short period in early September 2011 for Rovers' games in the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League

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