Seongnam Sports Complex () is a group of sports facilities in

Seongnam Seongnam (; ) is the fourth largest city in South Korea's Gyeonggi Province after Suwon and the 10th largest city in the country. Its population is approximately one million. It consists of three administrative districts: Bundang District, J ...

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. The complex consists of the Seongnam Stadium, Field hockey field, and Indoor Arena.

Facilities

Seongnam Stadium

It is a

multi-purpose stadium A multi-purpose stadium is a type of stadium designed to be easily used for multiple types of events. While any stadium could potentially host more than one type of sport or event, this concept usually refers to a design philosophy that stres ...

. It was built in December 1984 and used for

field hockey Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...

matches at the

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, but it is currently used mostly for

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matches. It was the main stadium of

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Seongnam Football Club () is a South Korean professional football club based in Seongnam that competes in the K League 2, the second tier of South Korean football. It is one of the most successful clubs in South Korea and the Asian Football Conf ...

(currently

Seongnam FC Seongnam Football Club () is a South Korean professional football (soccer), football club based in Seongnam that competes in the K League 2, the second tier of South Korean football. It is one of the most successful clubs in South Korea and the ...

) until 2004. Now, Seongnam FC uses

Tancheon Stadium Tancheon Sports Complex () is a group of sports facilities in Seongnam, South Korea. Its name was Seongnam 2 Sports Complex but changed to Tancheon Sports Complex in January 2006, naming after Tancheon. The complex consists of the Tancheon Stadiu ...

as their home stadium for most of their games. The stadium holds 27,000 people (21,242 seats) and the city government is considering reconstruction of the stadium, because of its decrepit condition.

Seongnam Indoor Arena

The Seongnam Indoor Arena with a capacity for 5,711 spectators was used by a

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

team Seongnam Korea Expressway Corporation Hi-pass Zenith of V-League, until the team was relocated to

Gimcheon Gimcheon (; ) is a Administrative divisions of South Korea, city in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. It is situated on the major land transportation routes between Seoul and Busan, namely the Gyeongbu Expressway and Gyeongbu Line railway. ...

References

1988 Summer Olympics official report.
Volume 1. Part 1. p. 202.
제 11탄 성남제1종합운동장 ①
- Dream stadium of K-League
제 11탄 성남제1종합운동장 ②
- Dream stadium of K-League

External links

Official Site

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