Nagai Stadium

Yanmar Stadium Nagai

Location	Nagai Park, Higashisumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, Japan
Coordinates	34°36′50.83″N 135°31′6.42″E / 34.6141194°N 135.5184500°E / 34.6141194; 135.5184500Coordinates: 34°36′50.83″N 135°31′6.42″E / 34.6141194°N 135.5184500°E / 34.6141194; 135.5184500
Owner	Osaka City
Capacity	47,000
Field size	105 x 68 m
Surface	Grass (107 m x 71 m)
Scoreboard	Yes
Construction
Opened	1964 (1964)
Renovated	2007
Expanded	1996
Tenants
Cerezo Osaka (1996–present)
Website
About Nagai Stadium (Japanese)

Yanmar Stadium Nagai (大阪市長居陸上競技場, Ōsaka-shi Nagai Rikujō Kyōgijō) is an athletic stadium in Osaka, Japan. It is the home ground of J. League club Cerezo Osaka. The stadium has a seating capacity of 47,000.

History

When Nagai Stadium initially opened in 1964, its capacity was 23,000, and its opening event was a soccer match during the 1964 Summer Olympics. The stadium's seating capacity was expanded to 50,000 in 1996 for the 52nd National Sports Festival of Japan in 1997.

The stadium hosted three matches in the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

First round

• June 12: Nigeria  0 – 0  England
• June 14: Tunisia  0 – 2  Japan

Quarter-final

• June 22: Senegal  0 – 1  Turkey (after extra time)

Nagai Stadium has been used many times for athletic competitions; it played host to the Athletics at the 2001 East Asian Games and the 2007 World Championships in Athletics. It was also the venue for the annual Osaka Grand Prix athletics meeting which took place every May from 1996 to 2010, and it is still the starting and finishing point for the Osaka International Ladies Marathon, held annually in late January-early February.^[1]

Access

Rail transit

• It takes 3 minutes on foot from Tsurugaoka Station on the JR West Hanwa Line.
• It takes 5 minutes on foot from Nagai Station on the JR West Hanwa Line and the Osaka Municipal Subway Midōsuji Line.
• It takes 20 minutes on foot from Harinakano Station on the Kintetsu Minami-Osaka Line.

Osaka City Bus

Subway Nagai

• Route 4: Subway Suminoekoen – Subway Nagai – Deto Bus Terminal
• Route 24: Sumiyoshi Shako-mae – Subway Nagai – Minami-Nagai
• Route 40: Sumiyoshi Shako-mae – Subway Nagai – Deto Bus Terminal

Nagaikoen-kitaguchi

• Route 54A: Sumiyoshi Shako-mae → Subway Abiko → Takaai Danchi-mae → Nagaikoen-kitaguchi → Subway Nishitanabe → Furitsu Sogo-iryo-center (General Medical Center) → Sumiyoshi Shako-mae
• Route 54B: Sumiyoshi Shako-mae → Furitsu Sogo-iryo-center (General Medical Center) → Subway Nishitanabe → Nagaikoen-kitaguchi → Takaai Danchi-mae → Subway Abiko → Sumiyoshi Shako-mae

See also

• Nagai Aid Stadium
• Nagai Ball Gall Field

References

External links

Media related to Nagai Stadium at Wikimedia Commons

• Official site (Japanese)

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