Nagai Stadium ( 大阪市 長居陸上競技場 , Ōsaka-shi Nagai Rikujō Kyōgijō ) is a stadium in Osaka , Japan. It is the home ground of J. League club Cerezo Osaka . The stadium has a seating capacity of 47,816. The rugby union club NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes Osaka use the venue for most of their home games.
7-420: When Nagai Stadium initially opened in 1964, its capacity was 23,000, and its opening event was a football 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
14-418: A two days concert for their Summer Tour. K-Pop girl group TWICE played at the stadium on May 13th and 14th 2023 as part of their Ready to Be World Tour , and will return to play encore dates on July 13th and 14th 2024. Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics#First Consolation Round The football competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics started on 11 October and ended on 23 October. Only one event,
21-684: The Athletics at the 2001 East Asian Games and the 2007 World Championships in Athletics . It is also the venue for the annual Osaka Grand Prix athletics meeting which took place every May from 1996 to 2010, and again since 2018. In addition, the stadium is the starting and finishing point for the Osaka International Ladies Marathon , held annually in late January-early February. Other than sports event, this venue also used as concert venue. In 2018 Nogizaka46 held
28-602: The Olympic Stadium on 23 October 1964. There was also three consolation matches played by losing quarter-finalists. The winner of these matches placed fifth in the tournament. Regional qualifying tournaments were held. During the CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament among South American national teams, a riot in Lima during the decisive Peru – Argentina match, after Peru's equalizing goal in
35-409: The last minutes was disallowed by the referee, resulted in 328 deaths, which was considered the worst football disaster in history. Due to the riot, further CONMEBOL matches were not played that year, except for a playoff between Brazil and Peru (won by Brazil), and Argentina qualified instead of Peru. 16 teams qualified, and were divided into four groups: The two best teams of each group competed in
42-401: The men's tournament, was contested. The tournament features 14 men's national teams from six continental confederations. The 14 teams are drawn into two groups of four and two groups of three and each group plays a round-robin tournament . At the end of the group stage, the top two teams advanced to the knockout stage, beginning with the quarter-finals and culminating with the gold medal match at
49-459: The quarter-finals. Ultimately, the tournament was played two teams short: Africa (3) Asia (4) Europe (6) North America (1) South America (2) Note: Only players from the East Germany represented the joint Olympic team of United Team of Germany . With 12 goals, Ferenc Bene of Hungary is the top scorer in
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