is an athletics stadium, also used as the support stadium for the

Yanmar Stadium Nagai , known as the Yanmar Stadium Nagai ( ja, ヤンマースタジアム長居) for sponsorship reasons, is a stadium in Osaka, Japan. It is the home ground of J. League club Cerezo Osaka. The stadium has a seating capacity of 47,000. History When ...

Nagai Park is a large sports complex located in Higashisumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, Higashisumiyoshi-ku, Osaka. Its facilities include three multipurpose sports stadia, including 50,000-seat Nagai Stadium, a baseball field, Nagai Botanical Garden, which boasts over ...

, Higashisumiyoshi-ku,

Osaka, Japan is a Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the List of cities in Japan, third most populous city in Ja ...

. The Aid Stadium, occasionally called The Second Nagai Stadium allows the bigger stadium to host world class athletic events. It seats 15,000 with overflow room on a grass hill. It was formerly known as Osaka Nagai Second Stadium. Since March 2014 it has been called Yanmar Field Nagai for the

naming rights Naming rights are a financial transaction and form of advertising or memorialization whereby a corporation, person, or other entity purchases the right to name a facility, object, location, program, or event, typically for a defined period of t ...

. The Aid Stadium is home to

Sagawa Express Osaka SC Sagawa Express Osaka Soccer Club(佐川急便大阪サッカー部) was a Japanese football club based in Higashisumiyoshi-ku, Osaka. History They were founded in 1965 and played in the Japan Football League (JFL) from 2002 to 2007, when they ...

and occasionally

Cerezo Osaka is a Japanese professional football club based in Osaka. The club currently plays in the J1 League, which is the top tier of football in the country. The club's name ''Cerezo'' (Spanish for cherry blossom) is also the flower of the city of Osaka. ...

from 2006 to 2007.

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World Stadiums entry
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