Chengdu Sports Centre

The Chengdu Sports Center (Chinese: 成都市体育中心) or Sichuan Provincial Sports Center (Chinese: 四川省体育中心)[1] is a sports complex with a multiuse stadium in Chengdu, China which is used mostly for soccer matches.

Chengdu Sports Center

The stadium holds 39,225 and opened on 28 December 1991; it was the home of the Chengdu Blades, a soccer club in China League One, the second tier of the Chinese soccer pyramid.

It was one of the venues for the group stages of the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup. It hosted six games in total.

The stadium has also held concerts. Past events include Canadian singer Avril Lavigne's Best Damn Tour on September 30, 2008, marking the first time a Western artist performed at the stadium, and also K-pop boy group Big Bang's Made World Tour on August 14, 2015 in front of 30,000 fans.[2] Mariah Carey played The Elusive Chanteuse Show Tour at October 12, 2014.

It will be used for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2019 World Police and Fire Games.

30°39′57.18″N 104°3′56.01″E

References
  1. "四川省体育中心-地点信息-EEmap-互动地图". Archived from the original on 2012-07-29. Retrieved 2008-01-16.
  2. "BIGBANG's Enthralled 30,000 Chinese Fans in Chengdu". YG-Life. 2015-08-15. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.