Seoul World Cup Stadium

Korean spelling
Korean alphabet :	서울 월드컵 경기장
Revised Romanization :	Seoul Woldeukeop Gyeongijang
McCune-Reischauer :	Sŏul Wŏldŭk'ŏp Kyŏnggijang

Seoul World Cup Stadium
	The interior of the Seoul World Cup Stadium
Data
place	Seoul , South Korea
Coordinates	37 ° 34 '5.6 " N , 126 ° 53' 50.6" E Coordinates: 37 ° 34 '5.6 " N , 126 ° 53' 50.6" E
opening	2001
surface	Natural grass
costs	180 million euros
capacity	66,704 places
playing area	105 m × 68 m
Societies)
	FC Seoul (since 2004);
Events
	Football World Cup 2002; U-17 World Cup 2007; Final first leg of the AFC Champions League 2013 ; League of Legends World Cup 2014 final.; International Congress of Jehovah's Witnesses 2009 and 2014;

The Seoul World Cup Stadium ( Korean : 서울 월드컵 경기장 ) is a football stadium in the South Korean capital, Seoul .

history

The arena, which opened in November 2001, has a capacity of 66,806 spectators, all of which have seats, and is the second largest stadium in the country after the Seoul Olympic Stadium. It has been the home of FC Seoul since 2004 .

The 66,704 seats include 806 VIP seats, 754 seats in the press stand and the seats in the 75 VIP boxes. The roof spans 90 percent of the grandstand seats. A total of 3,601 parking spaces are available in and around the stadium. The stadium has a total area of 155,674 square meters inside. The highest point of the stadium is 49.6 meters. Since the 2002 World Cup, the Seoul World Cup Stadium has developed into a sports, cultural and shopping complex alongside football.

The construction costs of around 180 million euros make it the third most expensive of the ten South Korean World Cup stadiums - all ten Japanese arenas, on the other hand, were more expensive.

On October 19, 2014, the final of the World Championship of the League of Legends computer game took place.

Games of the 2002 World Cup in Seoul

In the 2002 FIFA World Cup where three games were, as in almost all of the 20 World Cup stadiums, instead of including the opening match between Senegal and France and the semi-final between Germany and South Korea .

Group games

77491964575 ♠May 31, 2002: France - Senegal 0: 1 (0: 1)France Senegal

77493266925 ♠June 13, 2002: Turkey - China 3: 0 (2: 0)Turkey China People's Republic

Semifinals

77494383225 ♠June 25, 2002: Germany - South Korea 1-0 (0-0)Germany Korea South

Web links

Commons : Seoul World Cup Stadium - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Stadium website ( Chinese , English , Japanese , Korean )
Stadium on the site of FC Seoul (English)
Picture gallery

Individual evidence

↑ Data on the stadium , fcseoul.com (English)

[1] Data on the stadium , fcseoul.com (English)