ÅŒita Bank Dome

Oita Trinita

• Football World Cup 2002
• Music concerts
• J. League
• Rugby

The Kyushu Sekiyu Dome (Japanese九州石油 ドーム, literally: " Kyushu Oil Dome " ), formerly " Sports Park Oita Big Eye Stadium and " (Japanese大分 スポーツ 公園 総合 競技 場 ビッグ アイ, Oita Supōtsu Kōen Sogo Kyōgijō Biggu Ai ) is a multi-purpose stadium with facilities for athletics in the Japanese city of Oita in Oita Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. It was built for the World Cup in 2002 and finished in May 2001. It was designed by the famous architect Kisho Kurokawa. The current name carries the Stadium due to sponsorship by the oil companies Kyushu Sekiyu since 1 March 2006.

A special feature of the stadium is the eponymous retractable roof of the dome, which has a total diameter of 245 meters. The movable roof structure is made of steel; that is coated with a transparent PTFE membrane. Opening or closing the roof takes 20 minutes. Initially it offered 43,000 spectators. However, the front half of the movable seat rows was removed from the stadium after the World Cup 2002. Thus the maximum number of seats now amounts to 40,000, of which 34,000 are permanently installed and 6,000 in the first series mobile mountable seats.

The stadium is mainly used today for the football club Oita Trinita, which plays its home games in the J. League here. Furthermore, it is used for rugby matches and music concerts.

Games of the Soccer World Cup 2002 in Oita

Group Games:

Second round: