G-Mobile Arena is an

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

stadium in Khan Uul District,

Ulaanbaatar Ulaanbaatar is the Capital (political), capital and List of cities in Mongolia, most populous city of Mongolia. It has a population of 1.6 million, and it is the coldest capital city in the world by average yearly temperature. The municipa ...

Mongolia Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south and southeast. It covers an area of , with a population of 3.5 million, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by po ...

. It is the home of

Ulaanbaatar City FC Ulaanbaatar City Football Club was a professional football club from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. They played in the Mongolian National Premier League, the highest level of football in Mongolia. History The club was founded on 19 March 2016 with cl ...

of the

Mongolian Premier League The Mongolian Premier League () is the top-tier professional football league of Mongolia. It is contested by ten clubs and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 1st League. The league is controlled by the Mongolian Football F ...

. Naming rights belong to Mongolian wireless communication company G-Mobile. The arena includes stands on all four sides and a half roof. An artificial turf surface was imported from the

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

. The president of Ulaanbaatar City FC described the stadium as "European quality."

History

Ground was broken for the 3,000-seat stadium in summer 2017 with the opening taking place in 2019. The stadium is the fourth stadium in the Mongolian Premier League along with the

MFF Football Centre The Mongolian Football Federation, MFF Football Centre () is a stadium in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Overview It is used for Association football, football matches and has an artificial playing surface. The newly-expanded 5,000 seat stadium at the ...

, Erdenet Stadium, and

Erchim Stadium Erchim Stadium is an association football stadium in Bayangol, Ulaanbaatar, Bayangol District, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. It serves as the home stadium of Mongolia's most successful football club, Erchim FC of the Mongolian Premier League. Erchim is ...

. The Ulaanbaatar City FC became only the third Mongolian club, following

Erchim FC Khaan Khuns-Erchim Football Club () is a professional football club from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia who have been playing in the Mongolian Premier League, which they have won ten times,

and

Khangarid FC Khangarid Football Club is a Mongolian professional football club based in Erdenet that currently competes in the Mongolian Premier League. Honours * Mongolian Premier League

, to have its own stadium.

References

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