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| Full name | Taipei Municipal "Track and Field" Stadium |
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| Location | Taipei, Taiwan |
| Owner | Taipei City Government |
| Capacity | 20,000 |
| Surface | Grass |
| Construction | |
| Built | 2009 |
| Opened | 2009 |
| Construction cost | NT$ 423 million |
| Architect | Archasia |
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| Taipei Bravo PlayOne Tatung Chinese Taipei national football team Chinese Taipei national rugby union team | |
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| Traditional Chinese | 臺北田徑場 or 台北田徑場 | ||||||||||||||
| Tongyong Pinyin | Táiběi tiánjìngchǎng | ||||||||||||||
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The Taipei Municipal Stadium (Chinese :臺北田徑場or 台北田徑場; pinyin :Táiběi Tiánjìng Chǎng) is a multi-purpose stadium in Taipei,Taiwan. The original stadium,built in 1956,was used mostly for track and field events. Entertainer Michael Jackson performed two concerts there during his Dangerous World Tour on 4 and 6 September 1993 in front of a crowd of 80,000. [1]
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The stadium was demolished and reconstructed for the 2009 Summer Deaflympics between December 2006 and July 2009. [2] The new stadium is able to hold 20,000 people. On 3 July 2011,the stadium recorded its highest attendance for a football game when Chinese Taipei hosted Malaysia in the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification - AFC first round second leg match,when 15,335 spectators attended the game. [3] In 2013,500 people showed up at the stadium for a domestic league match between association football clubs Taipower FC and Tatung FC. [4]
The stadium is accessible from the Taipei Arena station of the Taipei Metro.
