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Yellow Dragon Sports Center is a sports complex also used for cultural events such as music concerts and celebrations. It is the home of soccer club Hangzhou Nabel Greentown F.C.
Brief of Yellow Dragon Sports Center
Yellow Dragon Sports Center is a sports complex also used for cultural events such as music concerts and celebrations. It is the home of soccer club Hangzhou Nabel Greentown F.C.
The center, built between 1997 and 2003, includes a football (soccer) stadium with a running track, an indoor arena, outdoor track and field practice facility, a sports hotel, a press center, and other facilities for sports such as rhythmic gymnastics, tennis, diving and chess.
Yellow Dragon Stadium is an outdoor football stadium and the main feature of the Yellow Dragon Sports Center. The facility seats 51,000 people and was completed in 2000. It is used by the local football team and was one of the venues of the FIFA Women s World Cup 2007 held in September 2007, for group phase games and the Brazil-USA semifinal. It was referred to by FIFA as Hangzhou Dragon Stadium. The structure is circular in shape and has a partial roof covering the seating sections that is supported by two dual suspension towers on opposing ends of the stadium.
Yellow Dragon Gymnasium is an indoor arena seating 8,000 people, which was officially put into service on 21 September 2003. It was constructed at a cost of 160 million RMB (roughly 19 million USD). The arena can accommodate figure skating and ice hockey, as well as a variety of indoor sports. It is also used for music concerts.