The Ulsan Munsu Football Stadium () is a
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
stadium in
Ulsan
Ulsan (; ), officially the Ulsan Metropolitan City, is South Korea's seventh-largest metropolitan city and the eighth-largest city overall, with a population of over 1.1 million inhabitants. It is located in the south-east of the country, neighbo ...
, South Korea with a capacity for 37,897 spectators. Since 2001, it has been the home ground of
K League 1
The K League 1 () is a professional association football league in South Korea and the highest level of the South Korean football league system. The league is contested by twelve clubs. It is one of the most successful leagues in the Asian Foo ...
team
Ulsan HD
Ulsan HD FC (), formerly Ulsan Hyundai FC, is a South Korean professional football club based in Ulsan that competes in the K League 1, the top tier of South Korean football. Founded in 1983 as Hyundai Horang-i, they joined the K League in 1984. ...
.
The stadium was built from 18 December 1998 to 28 April 2001 at a total cost of 151.4 billion
won (US$116.5 million).
International matches
The venue hosted three matches at 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 ...
.
See also
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List of football stadiums in South Korea
The following is a list of Association football, football stadiums in South Korea, ordered by capacity. All stadiums with a seating capacity of 10,000 or more are included.
Current stadiums
See also
* List of Asian stadiums by capacity
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References
External links
Ulsan HD FC official website
World Stadiums(archived 3 February 2009)
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Ulsan HD FC
Venues of the 2002 Asian Games
Football venues in South Korea
Sports venues in Ulsan
Sports venues completed in 2001
2001 establishments in South Korea
K League 1 stadiums