Luzhniki Stadium
No Moscow club has ever owned Luzhniki outright. Spartak, CSKA and Torpedo have all used it as a home ground in different decades, and the national team still plays here — a stadium built for the state rather than a tenant, which is why its name changed rather than its ownership: Central Lenin Stadium until 1992, when the site was privatised and renamed.
Its capacity has only gone one way since the Council of Ministers ordered it built in 450 days: roughly 101,000 at the 1956 opening, 96,000 by the 1980 Olympics, 80,000 once a roof and plastic seating went in during 1996–1997, and 81,000 after the 2013–2017 rebuild for the World Cup — a reconstruction that came to 26.6 billion roubles and, together with the earlier roof, made the difference between a Soviet-era bowl and today's covered arena.
Few grounds carry as varied a résumé of finals. Luzhniki staged the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1980 Olympics, the 2007 UEFA Cup final, the 2008 UEFA Champions League final, and both the opening match and the final of the 2018 World Cup — a run that spans open-air ceremonies and matches played under a roof that didn't exist for any of the earlier ones.
The attendance record is disputed: sources place a crowd of up to 125,000 at either the 1957 World Festival of Youth and Students or a 1989 peace rock festival, without agreement on which. Since the post-2017 rebuild, the largest confirmed crowd is 78,750, for Russia's friendly against Argentina on 11 November 2017.