USA Tour 2024: 10 things about Yankee Stadium
City face Italian giants AC Milan at the iconic Yankee Stadium this Saturday.
Pep Guardiola's Premier League champions will play Paulo Fonseca's side at 23:00 (UK) on Saturday 27 July.
Fans in selected countries with an active CITY+ subscription can watch live on mancity.com and our official app.
It is only the fourth ever encounter with the Rossoneri after a two-legged UEFA Cup tie in 1978 and a friendly in Pittsburgh exactly 10 years prior to this match.
Yankee Stadium will be a fitting setting for such an illustrious match up, with the venue often a bucket list destination for fans of American sports.
Here we detail everything you need to know the stadium...
Residents
A multi-use field, the Yankee Stadium is home to Major League Baseball's New York Yankees and Major League Soccer's New York City.
Originally a baseball stadium only, our CFG-sister club New York moved in in 2015.
Yankees - the most successful baseball franchise of all-time - have called the stadium home since 1923, save for a two-year hiatus at the Shea Stadium in 1974 and 1975.
Rebuild
The original Yankee Stadium stood from 1923 - the same year City moved into Maine Road in Moss Side - until 2008.
This rebuilt facility, yards away from the original, was opened in April 2009 as a state-of-the-art baseball cathedral.
Capacity
With a current capacity of 46,537, the Yankee Stadium is the sixth largest baseball stadium in the US.
Given the changes required to the playing area to make a rectangular playing area work, this capacity can increase for football matches.
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Heart of the City
The Yankee Stadium is located in the Bronx, north of Manhattan and across the Harlem River.
From there, it's just 14 minutes to Central Park with many of New York's other major attractions also within easy reaching distance.
Design
Many elements of the Yankee Stadium interior are inspired by the original venue to carry the name.
The roof of the new facility carries a replica of the frieze that was a trademark of the previous ballpark.
There are also hundreds of photographs capturing the history of the Yankees.
The New York Daily News newspaper partnered with the Yankees for the exhibition "The Glory of the Yankees Photo Collection", which was selected from the Daily News' collection of over 2,000 photographs.
Home of home runs
In its first season, the new Yankee Stadium quickly acquired a reputation as a 'launching pad' because of the high number of home runs hit there.
Through its first 23 games, 87 home runs were hit at the venue, easily besting Enron Field's previous record set in 2000.
Hall of Famers
As Yankees are the most successful baseball franchise of all-time, it rings true that many of the sport's greats have called it home in their careers.
The Yankees have had 44 players and 11 managers inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, including many of the most iconic figures in the sport's history, such as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, and Reggie Jackson; more recent inductees include Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter.
In fact, the original became nicknamed 'The House That Ruth Built', with the modern stadium receiving the moniker of 'The House That Jeter Built' as an affectionate nod to that history.
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City's previous visits
Manchester City have played at the Yankee Stadium twice before, back in 2013 and 2014.
We beat Chelsea 5-3 in May 2013, with goals from Gareth Barry, Samir Nasri (2), James Milner and Edin Dzeko.
We were back in July 2014 to face Liverpool and Stevan Jovetic scored a brace in a 2-2 draw.
Different ball games
As well as New York City and Yankees, the stadium is the host of the annual Pinstripe Bowl, a major college football game.
In 2014, the stadium hosted outdoor two ice hockey matches between rival NHL sides with New York Rangers beating New Jersey Devils 7-3 and and then New York Islands 2-1.
In 2010, boxers Yuri Foreman and Miguel Cotto fought at the stadium in front of more than 20,000 spectators.
Not just sport
Jay-Z, Eminem, Paul McCartney, Metallica, Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Garth Brooks, Bad Bunny and Jonas Brothers are just some of the musical superstars to have performed concerts at the Yankee Stadium.
The New York University graduation ceremonies are also held at the Yankee Stadium, with prominent guest speakers and honorary doctorates often present.
USA Tour 2024
City face Celtic, AC Milan, Barcelona and Chelsea during the Club’s pre-season tour of the United States.
As always, mancity.com and the official app are the best places to keep across all things City during our time in the US.
Including pre-match press conferences and live open training as well as detailed and varied in-game and post-friendly coverage of all our fixtures, our website and app provide fans with a complete City experience, all from one handy place.
All US Tour matches will be broadcast live on CITY+ in the following countries: UK, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Japan, Norway, Sweden and United Arab Emirates.
To access these matches from one of the locations listed above, you will need an active CITY+ subscription. Those same restrictions will apply to full-match replays and Pitcam highlights.
For fans living outside of the countries named, we will have a full explainer article on how to tune in coming in due course.
Subscribers will be able to watch on the official app and mancity.com, with the option to cast matches onto their TV from mobile devices. Find out how to do this via our handy guide here.
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