Lin Fong Sports Centre, Sports complex in Macau, China
Lin Fong Sports Centre stands on Avenida do Almirante Lacerda and combines a 105 m by 68 m natural grass football pitch with a five-lane running track and a 2,200-seat grandstand. Its indoor swimming pools, gymnasium and table tennis room sit alongside the former Macau Canidrome site.
The site hosted greyhound racing from 1932 to 1936, then became an amusement park with Cantonese opera and acrobatics. In 1940 the government converted it into a sports ground named Campo 28 de Maio, known as Lin Fong. Greyhound racing returned in 1963 and continued until the Macau Canidrome closed in July 2018.
The stadium's popular name, Lin Fong, comes from the Lin Fong Temple nearby, while its official name, 28 de Maio Stadium, dates from its 1940 conversion by the Macau government. From 1963 greyhound racing returned to the site, and the canidrome operated beside the sports ground until its concession expired in July 2018. The swimming pool, Macau's first heated public indoor pool, opened in 1986 with one basin designed for users with disabilities.
The ground sits on Avenida do Almirante Lacerda, and since the canidrome closed in 2018 the venue has opened seven nights a week instead of two. The indoor pools run in three daily sessions, and one of them was designed for users with disabilities. From 2026 the first phase of the Cidadão Sports Park works begins on the old canidrome land, while the sports centre stays open, with access via Avenida do Almirante Lacerda.
The site hosted greyhound racing from 1932 to 1936 and again from 1963 until the Macau Canidrome's concession expired in July 2018; the dog track's departure let the centre extend its opening from two evenings a week to seven.
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