Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium

The Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium is a stadium in Tianjin, China. Construction started in August 2003 and was completed in August 2007.

The stadium hosted games for the 2007 FIFA Women’s World Cup. It also hosted the Football preliminaries at the 2008 Summer Olympics It covers 78,000 square metres and has a capacity of 60,000. It as a length of 380 metres, a width of 270 metres, and a height of 53 metres. It is nicknamed the “Water Drop” because the outside of the venue is designed to resemble a drop of water. The stadium cost nearly 1,500,000,000 Yuan to build.

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