Huanglong Sports Center, Multi-purpose stadium in Hangzhou, China.
Huanglong Sports Center is a multi-purpose stadium complex in Hangzhou whose main football ground seats 51,000 and was completed in 2000. The circular bowl has a partial roof held up by two dual suspension towers at opposite ends, and the wider center, built between 1997 and 2003, also holds an 8,000-seat indoor arena, a running track, a sports hotel and a press center.
The center was built between 1997 and 2003; the stadium itself was completed in 2000 with 51,000 seats. It hosted group matches and the Brazil-USA semifinal of the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, where FIFA called it Hangzhou Dragon Stadium. Planned as the main athletics and ceremonies venue for the 2022 Asian Games, it instead held the football quarter-finals, semi-finals and women's gold medal final.
The name Huanglong means "yellow dragon" in Chinese. Besides Zhejiang Professional matches, the stadium hosts concerts and celebrations: Westlife played here on 24 February 2012 and again on 17 November 2023, and Joker Xue headlined on 8 September 2018.
The center sits in the middle of Hangzhou, with the stadium, the 8,000-seat gymnasium to its northeast, an outdoor track-and-field practice facility, a sports hotel and a press center on the grounds. The gymnasium, in service since 21 September 2003, holds figure skating, ice hockey and concerts. The stadium's running track rings the football pitch, so spectators sit back from the field.
Huanglong was originally planned as the main athletics and ceremonies venue for the 2022 Asian Games after Hangzhou won the bid in September 2015. A change of plans left that role to Hangzhou Sports Park, and Huanglong instead staged the football quarter-finals, semi-finals and the women's gold medal match.
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