Kusanagi Ball Park, Athletic stadium in Shizuoka, Japan
Kusanagi Ball Park is a sports stadium in Shizuoka featuring a central field with grass banking on three sides and a main grandstand with capacity for around 8,000 spectators. The overall facility holds 28,000 seats across four sections, with the back stand accommodating about 12,000 and each end zone holding around 4,000 seats.
Built for the 12th National Sports Festival (Shizuoka Kokutai) held in 1957, the ground has since hosted the Shizuoka prefectural qualifying tournament of the All Japan High School Soccer Championship and the Shizuoka Prefecture Soccer Championship. The prefecture owns the facility, and a joint venture led by Tokyo Dome (with Tokyu and Shizuoka Railway) holds the designated management contract.
The pitch hosts the Shizuoka prefectural finals of the National High School Soccer Championship and the Shizuoka Prefecture Soccer Championship. The scoreboard is a hand-written panel type, with results put up by hand during matches.
The main stand seats 4,000, the back stand 7,000 and the grass bank 1,000, so the far side is uncovered and open to the weather. The pitch is natural tiftone grass measuring 156 by 89 metres. Four floodlight towers allow evening matches, and the scoreboard is a handwritten panel board.
The pitch measures 156 by 89 metres and is sown with tifton turf, a warm-season grass also used on golf greens. Four floodlight towers stand around the field, and the scoreboard is still changed by hand, panel by panel, rather than electronically.
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