Osaka Expo '70 Stadium
- Games Gamba Osaka
The Osaka Expo '70 Stadium (Japanese万博 记念 竞技场, Bampaku kinen kyōgijō, " Expo Memorial Stadium " ) is a stadium in the Japanese city of Suita. It can accommodate 21,000 spectators and serves the club Gamba Osaka as homestead.
The Osaka Expo '70 Stadium in Suita, a Japanese town in the prefecture of Osaka, was built in 1970-1972. Purpose of the construction was the upcoming World's Fair, Expo '70, the Suita was able to secure the first city in Japan. For this, the stadium should serve as a place of exhibitions in the field of sport. Eight years after the World's Fair also began to regularly use the stadium for football games. Since 1980 the local club Gamba Osaka plays its home games at Osaka Expo '70 Stadium from. The association, in which, among other things, Junichi Inamoto and Tsuneyasu Miyamoto as a player as well as the German vice champion of 1966, Sigfried Held, as a coach, has been in its history already once Japanese soccer champions, in the year 2005. Moreover, once you won the Emperor's Cup, the national cup competition in Japan. Internationally could Gamba draw attention to themselves. Thus, the club won the Queen's Cup and once again reached the final of the Champions Cup A3 Nissan. The biggest success of Gamba Osaka is winning the AFC Champions League in 2008.
The Osaka Expo '70 Stadium today can accommodate 21,000 spectators. So far, the stadium underwent three renovations. In the years 1993, 1996 and 2006 minor amendments to the stadium took place.