Sapporo Dome

• Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters (baseball ) (since 2004)
• Consadole Sapporo ( football) (since 2001)

• Football World Cup 2002
• Nordic World Ski Championships 2007
• Rally Japan 2008
• Rugby Union World Cup 2019
• Concerts

The Sapporo Dome ( jap :札幌 ドーム, Sapporo domU ) is a fixed indoor stadium in Sapporo, Japan. It has a capacity of 41 484 spectators at football. With additional, mobile seats the stadium holds eg at concerts maximum of 53 738 visitors. As a special feature, the stadium has an out wheeled soccer field to be replaced by a baseball field or can be used as open space. In order to drive out the football field, bleachers are moved, rotated the lawn and down the length into the open.

History

Was built the stadium for the World Cup 2002. Defeated here, among other things, the German National Football Team Saudi Arabia 8-0 and thus laid the foundations for the later final. Also at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 competitions were organized Sapporo Dome; for the first time resulted in a part of the sprint race at the cross country through a hall. 2008 Rally Japan made ​​the Dome station. The Sapporo Dome is intended as a venue for the Rugby Union World Cup 2019. Currently, the stadium is home to the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters in the Japanese Baseball League and the football team Consadole Sapporo, since 2012 in the J. League Division 1, the highest Japanese soccer league.

Games of the Soccer World Cup 2002 in Sapporo

Three group matches of the tournament were based in Sapporo.

• . 7749215062501 June 2002 Group E: Germany Germany - Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia 8-0 ( 4-0)
• . 7749233667503 June 2002 Group G: Italy Italy - Ecuador Ecuador 2-0 (2-0)
• . 7749270877507 June 2002, Group F: Argentina Argentina - England England 0:1 ( 0:1)

Gallery

The extended lawn

The interior with football field

The movable stands

The interior

The baseball field

Sébastien Loeb during a round of the Rally Japan in 2008 at Sapporo Dome