DGB Daegu Bank Park (), known as the Forest Arena () in the

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international matches, is a

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located in

Daegu Daegu (, , literally 'large hill', 대구광역시), formerly spelled Taegu and officially known as the Daegu Metropolitan City, is a city in South Korea. It is the third-largest urban agglomeration in South Korea after Seoul and Busan; it is ...

, South Korea, and is the home stadium of the

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club

Daegu FC Daegu FC (Korean: 대구 FC) is a South Korean professional football club based in Daegu. The club was founded as a community club at the end of 2002, and made their K League 1 debut in 2003. Daegu has played mostly in the K League 1 but was re ...

. The stadium opened in March 2019 and has a seating capacity for 12,415 spectators.

History

It’s site was originally “

sports center” which was built in 1948, and it was renewed in 1960, which became

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. The former form of DGB Daegu Bank Park was main stadium of Daegu Sports Complex. In 2017, The massive construction to remodel the sports complex. The main stadium was decided to be bult as a

soccer stadium Soccer-specific stadium is a term used mainly in the United States and Canada to refer to a sports stadium either purpose-built or fundamentally redesigned for soccer and whose primary function is to host soccer matches, as opposed to a multi-p ...

. During the construction, the working name of the stadium was Daegu Forest Arena.

DGB Financial Group DGB Financial Group (Korean: DGB금융그룹,( abbreviated as DGBFG) is a South Korean banking holding company headquartered in Daegu. Its flagship company, Daegu Bank, is one of the largest regional banks in the country, mostly serving custome ...

bought the

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and named the stadium DGB Daegu Bank Park in February 2019, becoming the first stadium with naming rights in the

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history.

References

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