The Suwon World Cup Stadium (수원월드컵경기장) is a football stadium located in

Suwon Suwon (; ) is the largest city and capital of Gyeonggi Province, South Korea's most populous province. The city lies approximately south of the national capital, Seoul. With a population of 1.2 million, Suwon has more inhabitants than Ulsan, tho ...

, South Korea. It has been home of the

K League 2 The K League 2 () is the men's second-highest division of the South Korean football league system. It is contested between thirteen professional clubs and operates on a promotion and relegation system with K League 1. History In 2011, the or ...

team

Suwon Samsung Bluewings The Suwon Samsung Bluewings () are a South Korean Association football, football club based in Suwon that competes in the K League 2, the second tier of South Korean football. Founded in December 1995, they have won the K League on four occas ...

since 2001. The capacity of the stadium is 44,031.

Notable football events

2001 FIFA Confederations Cup

2002 FIFA World Cup

The Suwon World Cup Stadium was one of the venues of 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 ...

, and held the following matches:

Gallery

File:Glandbleu01.jpg, Suwon Bluewings supporters File:CafeteriaBigbird.jpg, Cafeteria File:Suwon left.JPG, Left side of the stadium File:Suwon right.JPG, Right side of the stadium

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