The Yuanshen Sports Centre Stadium () 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 ...

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

. It is currently used mostly for

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

matches. The stadium has a maximum seating capacity for 16,000 spectators. Apart from the stadium there is a 5,000 seater Yuanshen Gymnasium which hosted

Shanghai Sharks The Shanghai Sharks () are a Chinese Basketball Association team based in Shanghai. It is best known outside China as the club that developed Yao Ming before he entered the National Basketball Association. With Yao on the team, the Sharks made ...

until 2021 and swimming pool.

Events

* '' Super Show 2'' by the South Korean boy band

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on 18 October 2009 and the official opening performance of the ''11th Shanghai International Art Festival'', hosted by China's the Ministry of Culture. * On 19 April 2008 the arena hosted Japanese rock band

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as part of their "TOUR 2008 L'7 ~Trans ASIA via PARIS~"L'Arc~en~Ciel Setlist at the Yuanshen Sports Centre Stadium, Shanghai on 19 April 2008
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References

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