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Full name | Guangzhou Football Park |
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Former names | Guangzhou Evergrande Football Stadium |
Location | Panyu District, Guangzhou, China |
Coordinates | 22°59′05.2″N 113°17′11.7″E / 22.984778°N 113.286583°E |
Capacity | 74,707 |
Construction | |
Broke ground | April 2020[1] |
Construction cost | 12 billion yuan (US$1.7 billion) |
Architect | Hasan Syed ( Gensler) |
Guangzhou Football Park is a football stadium under construction in Guangzhou, China. The construction of the 12 billion yuan (US$1.7 billion) stadium began on 16 April 2020. [1] The design of the lotus-shaped stadium was that of Shanghai-based American architect Hasan Syed. [2] The stadium would have had a seating capacity for 100,000 people and was planned to open in December 2022. [1] [3]
In September 2021, the Evergrande Group said that the construction of the stadium would still proceed despite the company's liquidity crisis. [4] In November 2021, the stadium was seized by the Chinese government with plans to sell the incomplete stadium to another company or transfer ownership to the state-owned Guangzhou City Construction Investment Group. At that time construction of the stadium was reportedly halted for at least three months already, contradicting Evergrande's earlier statement. [5]
In mid-2022, due to the Chinese property sector crisis, sparked by the Evergrande Group, the project was cancelled. [6]
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Full name | Guangzhou Football Park |
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Former names | Guangzhou Evergrande Football Stadium |
Location | Panyu District, Guangzhou, China |
Coordinates | 22°59′05.2″N 113°17′11.7″E / 22.984778°N 113.286583°E |
Capacity | 74,707 |
Construction | |
Broke ground | April 2020[1] |
Construction cost | 12 billion yuan (US$1.7 billion) |
Architect | Hasan Syed ( Gensler) |
Guangzhou Football Park is a football stadium under construction in Guangzhou, China. The construction of the 12 billion yuan (US$1.7 billion) stadium began on 16 April 2020. [1] The design of the lotus-shaped stadium was that of Shanghai-based American architect Hasan Syed. [2] The stadium would have had a seating capacity for 100,000 people and was planned to open in December 2022. [1] [3]
In September 2021, the Evergrande Group said that the construction of the stadium would still proceed despite the company's liquidity crisis. [4] In November 2021, the stadium was seized by the Chinese government with plans to sell the incomplete stadium to another company or transfer ownership to the state-owned Guangzhou City Construction Investment Group. At that time construction of the stadium was reportedly halted for at least three months already, contradicting Evergrande's earlier statement. [5]
In mid-2022, due to the Chinese property sector crisis, sparked by the Evergrande Group, the project was cancelled. [6]