San Hanoi Stadium
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Hanoi Stadium, also known as Hàng Đẫy Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium
Multi-purpose stadium
Multi-purpose stadiums are a type of stadium designed in such a way as to be easily used by multiple sports. While any stadium could potentially host more than one sport, this concept usually refers to a specific design philosophy that stresses multi-functionality over specificity...

 in Hanoi
Hanoi
Hanoi , is the capital of Vietnam and the country's second largest city. Its population in 2009 was estimated at 2.6 million for urban districts, 6.5 million for the metropolitan jurisdiction. From 1010 until 1802, it was the most important political centre of Vietnam...

, Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

. It is currently used mostly for football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 matches. The stadium holds 22,000 spectators.

In the period from 2000 to 2005, the stadium was called Hanoi Stadium. Since 2005 the historic name Hàng Đẫy has been restored.

Hàng Đẫy Stadium is located in the center of Hanoi
Hanoi
Hanoi , is the capital of Vietnam and the country's second largest city. Its population in 2009 was estimated at 2.6 million for urban districts, 6.5 million for the metropolitan jurisdiction. From 1010 until 1802, it was the most important political centre of Vietnam...

, Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

 with a capacity of 22,000 seats. Before the construction of My Dinh national stadium, it was where Vietnam hosted football matches of both the men and women's and Olympic teams. The stadium also was the ground for various sporting and cultural events of Hanoi and Vietnam. In 1998, the opening, the Group B and the Tiger Cup
Tiger Cup
The ASEAN Football Championship , is a biennial international association football competition organized by the ASEAN Football Federation , contested by the national teams of Southeast Asia...

 Final matches took place here.

Since 2009 football season, all 4 of the football clubs in Hanoi such as T&T Hà Nội
T&T Hà Nội
Hà Nội T&T is a Vietnamese football club based in Hanoi, Vietnam. The club is in the top division in Vietnamese football, the V-League. Hà Nội T&T are the defending 2010 champions of V-League.- History :...

, Thể Công (V-League), Hòa Phát Hà Nội, Hà Nội ACB (first division) have chosen the stadium as their home ground.

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