The Daegu Civic Stadium () was a stadium in Daegu sports complex in

Daegu Daegu (; ), formerly spelled Taegu and officially Daegu Metropolitan City (), is a city in southeastern South Korea. It is the third-largest urban agglomeration in South Korea after Seoul and Busan; the fourth-largest List of provincial-level ci ...

, South Korea. The former main stadium was used mostly for

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matches of

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. During the 1986 Asian Games and

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, it hosted some

matches. The stadium had a capacity of 30,000 (19,467 seats) and opened on 20 April 1948. The stadium was expanded and reconstructed in 1975, and was renovated and repaired on 8 September 2003. The main stadium of the complex was demolished in 2017, and the new DGB Daegu Bank Park was built at the same place. The complex is called "

Complex Sports Town". It now has DGB Daegu Bank Park, indor gym, small

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field, and Daegu Baseball Stadium, which was a former home of Samsung Lions.

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