Seongnam Sports Complex ( ko, 성남종합운동장) 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. Seongnam is a satellite city of Seoul. It is largely a residential cit ...

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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 by multiple types of events. While any stadium could potentially host more than one type of sport or event, this concept usually refers to a specific design philosophy tha ...

. It was built in December 1984 and used for

field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...

matches at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

, but it is currently used mostly for

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

matches. It was the main stadium of

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma 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. Seongnam is a satellite city of Seoul. It is largely a residential city ...

(currently

Seongnam FC 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. Seongnam is a satellite city of Seoul. It is largely a residential cit ...

) until 2004. Now, Seongnam FC uses

Tancheon Stadium Tancheon Sports Complex ( ko, 탄천종합운동장) 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 consis ...

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

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team

Seongnam Korea Expressway Corporation Hi-pass Zenith Gimcheon Korea Expressway Corporation Hi-Pass ( ko, 김천 한국도로공사 하이패스) is a South Korean professional women's volleyball team. The team was founded in 1970 and became fully professional in 2005. They are based in Gimcheon and ...

of V-League, until the team was relocated to

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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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