Kim Il sung Stadium
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 Pyongyang , North Korea
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| Coordinates | 39 ° 2 '37 " N , 125 ° 45' 28" E |
| operator | PdAK |
| opening | 1926 |
| Renovations | 1969, 1982 |
| capacity | 50,000 seats |
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| Korean alphabet : | 김일성 경기장 |
| Hanja : | 金日成 競技場 |
| Revised Romanization : | Gim Il-seong Gyeonggijang |
| McCune-Reischauer : | Kim Il-sŏng Kyŏnggijang |
The Kim-Il-sung Stadium is a football stadium with an athletics facility in the Moranbong-guyŏk district of the North Korean capital Pyongyang . It has a capacity of 50,000 spectators. This makes it the second largest in North Korea after the May Day Stadium .
history
The stadium was built in 1926 when Korea was under Japanese rule and was first named Kirim Stadium . It was laid out as a ballpark . Until the dissolution of Pyongyang FC in the 1950s, it was its home. In 1969 the stadium was first renovated and renamed the Moranbong Stadium . After another renovation in 1982, it was named after Kim Il-sung , who gave his first speech here in Korea after returning from exile.
Today the stadium is mainly used for football matches and is the home ground of the Pyongyang sports group . Every April it serves as the start and finish for the international Pyongyang marathon .
Web links
- Picture gallery at Europlan-Online.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadium capacity at Europlan-Online.de.
- ↑ a b Philipp Meuser (ed.): Architectural Guide Pyongyang. Volume 1: Photos and Descriptions. DOM publishers, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86922-126-7 , p. 77.
- ↑ a b c Kim Il Sung Stadium. In: Soccerway , accessed October 25, 2011.