Nagai Stadium

Nagai Stadium
Nagai Stadium
Data
place	Osaka , Japan
Coordinates	34 ° 36 '50 "  N , 135 ° 31' 6"  E Coordinates: 34 ° 36 '50 "  N , 135 ° 31' 6"  E
owner	Osaka city
opening	1964
Renovations	1996, 2007
surface	Natural grass
capacity	50,000
playing area	107 m × 71 m
Societies)
Cerezo Osaka
Events
Football World Cup 2002 World Athletics Championships 2007 Osaka Women's Marathon

The Nagai Stadium ( jap. 大阪市長居陸上競技場 , Osaka-shi Nagai rikujō kyōgijō , German  "Nagai athletic stadium of the city of Osaka" ) is a football stadium with athletics track in Nagai Park Borough Higashisumiyoshi in Japanese Osaka .

history

It was built in 1964 and extensively renovated and expanded in 1996. It currently offers space for 50,000 spectators. The Japanese football club Cerezo Osaka plays its home games in the J. League in the stadium . During the soccer world championship in 2002 two preliminary round matches and a quarter-finals were played in the arena. In August / September 2007, the stadium hosted the 11th World Athletics Championships .

Games of the 2002 World Cup in Osaka

Group games

• 12 June 2002, Group F: Nigeria - England 0: 0  
• 14 June 2002, Group H: Tunisia - Japan 0: 2 (0: 0)  

Quarter finals

• June 22, 2002: Senegal - Turkey 0: 1 (0: 0, 0: 0) n.V. through Golden Goal  

See also

• List of the largest football stadiums in the world

Web links

Commons : Nagai Stadium  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Stadium website , nagai-park.jp (Japanese)
• Picture gallery , stadionwelt.de