, known as the Yanmar Stadium Nagai ( ja, ヤンマースタジアム長居) for sponsorship reasons, is a

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, Japan. It is the home ground of J. League club

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. The stadium has a

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of 47,000.

History

When Nagai Stadium initially opened in 1964, its capacity was 23,000, and its opening event was a football match during the 1964 Summer Olympics. The stadium's

was expanded to 50,000 in 1996 for the 52nd

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in 1997. The stadium hosted three matches in the

2002 FIFA World Cup The 2002 FIFA World Cup, also branded as Korea Japan 2002, was the 17th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial Association football, football world championship for List of men's national association football teams, men's national teams organized by ...

. Nagai Stadium has been used many times for athletic competitions; it played host to the

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and the

2007 World Championships in Athletics The 11th World Championships in Athletics, () under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), were held at Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan from 24 August to 2 September 2007. 200 of the IAAF's 212 member federat ...

. It is also the venue for the annual

Osaka Grand Prix The Golden Grand Prix Osaka is an international athletics competition in Osaka, Japan, held in May at the Yanmar Stadium Nagai, since 2018 under its current name. From 1996 to 2010 the event was known as the ''Osaka Grand Prix''. Formerly part ...

athletics meeting which took place every May from 1996 to 2010, and again since 2018. In addition, the stadium is the starting and finishing point for the

Osaka International Ladies Marathon The is an annual marathon road race for women over the classic distance of 42.195 kilometres which is held on the 4th or 5th Sunday of January in the city of Osaka, Japan, and hosted by Japan Association of Athletics Federations, Kansai Tel ...

, held annually in late January-early February.Nakamura, Ken (2001-05-25)
Day One of the East Asian Games

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. Retrieved on 2010-02-28.

Access

Rail transit

*It takes 3 minutes on foot from Tsurugaoka Station on JR-West

Hanwa Line The is a commuter rail line in the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto Metropolitan Area, owned and operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). The 61.3 km (38.1 mi) line runs between Osaka and Wakayama, Japan and has a 1.7 km branchline in a southern Os ...

. *It takes 5 minutes on foot from Nagai Station on JR-West Hanwa Line and Osaka Municipal Subway

Midōsuji Line The is a rapid transit line in Osaka, Japan, operated by Osaka Metro. Constructed under Midōsuji, a major north-south street, it is the oldest line in the Osaka subway system and the second oldest in Japan, following the Tokyo Metro Ginza L ...

. *It takes 20 minutes on foot from

Harinakano Station Harinakano Station(針中野駅, ''-eki'') is a railway station on the Kintetsu Minami Osaka Line in Komagawa Gochome, Higashisumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, Japan. Layout The station has 2 elevated side platforms serving a track each (3rd level). Surr ...

on Kintetsu

Minami Osaka Line is a railway line operated by Kintetsu Railway connecting in Osaka and in Kashihara, Nara Prefecture via Osaka's southern suburb cities of Matsubara, Fujiidera and Habikino in Osaka Prefecture, and Katsuragi and Yamato-Takada in Nara Pref ...

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

References

FIFA.com 1964 Summer Olympics JPN-YUG results from the stadium.
- accessed 14 August 2010.

External links