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Nagai Stadium

Yanmar Stadium Nagai
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Location Nagai Park, Higashisumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, Japan
Coordinates 34°36′50.83″N 135°31′6.42″E / 34.6141194°N 135.5184500°E / 34.6141194; 135.5184500Coordinates: 34°36′50.83″N 135°31′6.42″E / 34.6141194°N 135.5184500°E / 34.6141194; 135.5184500
Owner Osaka City
Capacity 47,000
Field size 105 x 68 m
Surface Grass (107 m x 71 m)
Scoreboard Yes
Construction
Opened 1964 (1964)
Renovated 2007
Expanded 1996
Tenants
Cerezo Osaka (1996–present)
Website
About Nagai Stadium (Japanese)

Yanmar Stadium Nagai (大阪市長居陸上競技場 Ōsaka-shi Nagai Rikujō Kyōgijō?) is an athletic stadium in Osaka, Japan. It is the home ground of J. League club Cerezo Osaka. The stadium has a seating capacity of 47,000.

When Nagai Stadium initially opened in 1964, its capacity was 23,000, and its opening event was a soccer match during the 1964 Summer Olympics. The stadium's seating capacity was expanded to 50,000 in 1996 for the 52nd National Sports Festival of Japan in 1997.

The stadium hosted three matches in the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

Nagai Stadium has been used many times for athletic competitions; it played host to the Athletics at the 2001 East Asian Games and the 2007 World Championships in Athletics. It was also the venue for the annual Osaka Grand Prix athletics meeting which took place every May from 1996 to 2010, and it is still the starting and finishing point for the Osaka International Ladies Marathon, held annually in late January-early February.


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