Taipei Municipal Stadium

Taipei Municipal Stadium
Taipei Municipal Stadium
Traditional Chinese	臺たい北田きただ徑みち場じょう or 台だい北田きただ徑みち場じょう
Tongyong Pinyin	Táiběi tiánjìngchǎng
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Táiběi tiánjìngchǎng
Tongyong Pinyin	Táiběi tiánjìngchǎng
IPA	[tʰǎɪpèɪ tʰjɛ̌ntɕîŋʈʂʰàŋ]
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ	Tâi-pak chhân-kèng-tiûⁿ

Taipei Municipal Stadium
臺たい北田きただ徑みち場じょう
Full name	Taipei Municipal "Track and Field" Stadium
Location	Taipei, Taiwan
Owner	Taipei City Government
Capacity	20,000
Surface	Grass
Construction
Built	2009
Opened	2009
Construction cost	NT$ 423 million
Architect	Archasia
Tenants
	Royal Blues; Tatung (sometimes) ; Ming Chuan; Taicheng Lions; Chinese Taipei national football team; Chinese Taipei national rugby union team

The Taipei Municipal Stadium (Chinese: 臺たい北田きただ徑みち場じょう or 台だい北田きただ徑みち場じょう; 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]

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.