Tuodong Stadium
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Kunming Tuodong Sports Center (Simplified Chinese: 拓东体育场) 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 Kunming
Kunming
' is the capital and largest city of Yunnan Province in Southwest China. It was known as Yunnan-Fou until the 1920s. A prefecture-level city, it is the political, economic, communications and cultural centre of Yunnan, and is the seat of the provincial government...

, China
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. It is currently used mostly for football
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 matches. The stadium holds 40,000 people. Tuodong Sports Center is located in downtown center of Kunming City at the elevation of 1,891m and occupying 5.4 ha.

Tuodong Sports Center is one of the major sports centers in Yunnan province and Kunming City for physical training and various types of races and contests. The stadium is equipped with glass fiber-reinforced plastic chairs that can accommodate 40,000 audiences. The football field in the center is of international standard at 105 x 68 m and surrounded by 8 plastic tracks. A great many international sports events and matches of large scales have been conducted in the center.

Other facilities in Tuodong Sports Center include swimming pools, well-equipped gymnasium, Ping-Pong rooms, etc. All are compliant to relevant international standards, and ideal for training and matches for basketball, volleyball, judo, fencing, and marshal arts.

Events

  • China
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     hosted Australia
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     here on its 2010 FIFA World Cup
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     qualification
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     campaign. The match took place on 26 March 2008 and ended 0-0.
  • China
    China national football team
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     hosted Laos here on its 2014 FIFA World Cup
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     qualification campaign. The match took place on 23 July 2011 and ended 7-2 in the favour of the home side.
  • China
    China national football team
    The China PR national football team is the national association football team of the People's Republic of China and is governed by the Chinese Football Association...

     hosted Singapore here on its 2014 FIFA World Cup
    2014 FIFA World Cup
    The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be the 20th FIFA World Cup, an international association football tournament that will take place in Brazil from 12 June to 13 July 2014....

     qualification campaign. The match took place on 2 September 2011.
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