Many countries have a national sport stadium, which typically serves as the primary or exclusive home for one or more of a country's national representative sports teams. The term is most often used in reference to an football (soccer) stadium. Usually, a national stadium will be in or very near a country's capital city or largest city. It is generally (but not always) the country's largest and most lavish sports venue with a rich history of hosting a major moment in sports (i.e. FIFA World Cup, Olympics, etc.). In many, but not all cases, it is also used by a local team. Many countries, including Spain and the United States, do not have a National Stadium designated as such, instead matches are rotated throughout the country. The lack of a national stadium can be seen as advantageous as designating a single stadium would limit the fan base capable of realistically attending matches as well as the concern of the cost of transportation.

A list of national stadiums follows:

Australia does not have an official national stadium, yet its two biggest stadiums alternate hosting large events are the following:

Rina Chikano (近野 莉菜, Chikano Rina^?, born April 23, 1993 in Tokyo), is a member of the Japanese idol group AKB48. Chikano debuted with AKB48 as a 5th generation research student in 2007.

It took Chikano longer than usual to get promoted to a member's position when all other research students had either quit or been promoted; making her one of the last remaining research students of her generation. On January 20, 2009, it was announced that Chikano would be transferred to a new agency, Itoh Company Group, a production company focusing on young idols. On March 26, 2009, Rina was promoted to Team K, and as of May 21, 2009, Chikano's official ameba blog opened. Less than a year followed when AKB48's teams re-shuffled; it was announced at AKB48 Senbatsu Member Sokaku Matsuri concert on August 23, 2009 that Chikano is to be added to the New Team B making her the only member of the old Team K right before the shuffle who has never been on an A-side single in AKB48.

On January 22, 2010, Chikano's GREE blog was opened.

Zaha Hadid, CBE (Arabic: زها حديد‎ Zahā Ḥadīd; born 31 October 1950) is an Iraqi-British architect and winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004.

Hadid was born in 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. She received a degree in mathematics from the American University of Beirut before moving to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.

After graduating she worked with her former teachers, Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, becoming a partner in 1977. It was with Koolhaas that she met the engineer Peter Rice who gave her support and encouragement early on, at a time when her work seemed difficult to build. In 1980 she established her own London-based practice. During the 1980s she also taught at the Architectural Association. She has also taught at prestigious institutions around the world; she held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, the Sullivan Chair at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture, guest professorships at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, the Knowlton School of Architecture, at The Ohio State University, the Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York and the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut. In addition, she was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. She has been on the Board of Trustees of The Architecture Foundation. She is currently Professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in Austria.