NATIONALS PARK

The Montreal Expos and Olympic Stadium are no more.  After the 2004 season, the team was moved to Washington D.C. and the name changed to the "Nationals" in addition to moving into their new ballpark, Nationals Park.  This 2008 season is the first season played at Nationals Park, which seats a maximum capacity of nearly 42,000 for which tickets are sold.  It is the first certified "green" (environmentally friendly) stadium in the United States.

The Montreal Expos play the majority of their home games in Olympic Stadium, located at 4549 Pierre-de-Coubertin Ave. Montreal, QC H1V 3N7. The Expos actually played their first few seasons at Jarry Park, but after Olympic Stadium helped host the 1976 Olympics, the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League christened the new stadium. The stadium was not quite ready for the Olympics in part because of a worker's strike just months before the planned opening ceremonies. Although it was considered quite hazardous to do so, the ceremonies went on as scheduled because the citizens wanted to see what their taxes had helped build.

The following year, the Expos moved in and have been there ever since. The attendance record at Olympic Stadium belongs to a Pink Floyd concert, and five Grey Cups (The Super Bowl of the CFL) have been played at the stadium, with the most recent contest being decided in 2001. Olympic Stadium has an incredible surface area and plays host to the city's largest traders when the Expos are no longer in season. In 1995, the stadium brought in more than 2.4 million people, many of them Expos fans, but many just interested in seeing a good concert or other large-scale entertainment event.

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