Egao Kenkō Stadium
| Egao Kenkō Stadium | |
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| KKWing Stadium | |
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| The interior of the Umakana Yokana Stadium in December 2015 | |
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Kumamoto-ken Minsōgō Undō Kōen Rikujō Kyōgijō |
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| place | 2776 Hirayama-chō Higashi-ku , Kumamoto , Kumamoto Prefecture , Japan
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| Coordinates | 32 ° 50 '12.7 " N , 130 ° 48' 0.4" O |
| owner | Kumamoto Prefecture |
| operator | Kumamoto Sports Promotion Agency |
| opening | March 1998 |
| Renovations | 2010 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| architect | Nikken Sekkei |
| capacity | 32,000 seats |
| playing area | 105 × 68 m (football) 107 × 70 m (lawn) |
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The Egao Kenkō Stadium ( Japanese. え が お 健康 ス タ ジ ア ム ) is a football stadium with a nine-lane athletics facility in the Japanese city of Kumamoto in the prefecture of the same name on the island of Kyūshū . The sports facility has hosted the home games of the Roasso Kumamoto football club , which currently plays in the J2 League , since 2005 . The sports arena has been sponsored by the Egao Kenkō Stadium since January 2017 .
history
The stadium, which was inaugurated in March 1998 and has 32,000 seats (including 150 wheelchair-accessible seats), is the center of the prefecture's sports park, which was established in 1978 with u. a. a tennis facility, another athletics facility, football and rugby fields, a swimming pool, an archery range, a softball field, several sports halls, a fitness studio and the Park Dome Kumamoto, a multi-purpose hall with 2,000 seats, which opened in 1997 . It was the venue for the 1997 men's handball world championship . In addition to the sports facilities, the park offers gardens, green areas and squares. The long official name Kumamoto-ken Minsōgō Undō Kōen Rikujō Kyōgijō ( 熊 本 県 民 総 合 運動 公園 陸上 競技場 , English Kumamoto Prefectural General Athletic Park Athletics Stadium ) ensured that the sports facility was nicknamed KKWing Stadium . The two Ks stand for Kumamoto Prefecture and Kyūshū Island. Wing ( German wing ) refers to the roofing of the main and opposite stands, which span the tiers like large wings. The steel cables of the four lighting towers fixed roof construction is provided with a PTFE -coated glass fiber - membrane covered. The floodlight offers an illuminance of 1,500 lux . The wide stadium area offers a circumferential grandstand ring. A large video wall is installed on the edge of the southwestern back gate .
In the year of inauguration, the 1998 Japanese Athletics Championships were held in the stadium. In 1999 the 54th National Sports Festival of Japan took place in Kumamoto. The stadium was one of the competition venues. The facility was the training facility for the Belgian team for the 2002 World Cup . It wasn't until 2005 that a long-term user of the stadium was found, Roasso Kumamoto. The Japanese national football team of the women and the Women's United States men's national soccer team (1: 3) contributed a May 7, 2006 friendly match from the stadium in Kumamoto. On January 20, 2009, the stadium was the scene of the qualifying game for the soccer Asian Cup 2011 between Japan and Yemen (2-1). Furthermore, the stadium was used by Japanese junior national teams. The football club Trinita Trinita (J2 League) also played briefly in the KKWing Stadium. Rugby games are also occasionally held.
EGAO Kenko Stadium was selected as one of twelve stadiums for the 2019 Rugby Union World Cup .
Web links
- kspa.or.jp: Official Sports Park Website (Japanese)
- stadiumdb.com: Umakana Yokana Stadium (Kumamoto Prefectural General Athletic Park Athletics Stadium) (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 熊 本 県 民 総 合 運動 公園 陸上 競技場 ネ ー ミ ン グ ラ イ ツ ・ パ ー ト ナ ー が 決定 Article from January 23, 2017 (Japanese)
- ↑ kspa.or.jp: Equipment of the Kumamoto Sports Park ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Japanese)
- ↑ structurae.de: Umakana Yokana Stadium
- ↑ stadiumdb.com: Description: Umakana Yokana Stadium (English)
