Toyota Stadium (Japan)

Toyota Stadium
Location	Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Coordinates	35°05′04″N 137°10′15″E / 35.08444°N 137.17083°E
Public transit	Meitetsu:; Toyota Line at Toyotashi ; Aichi Loop Line:; at Shin-Toyota
Owner	Toyota City
Operator	Toyota Stadium Co., Ltd.
Capacity	44,692
Record attendance	43,579 (Nagoya Grampus vs Kashima Antlers, 11 August 2018)
Field size	115 x 78 m
Surface	Grass
Construction
Broke ground	1997
Opened	July 21, 2001
Architect	Kisho Kurokawa
Tenants
	Nagoya Grampus; Toyota Verblitz; Japan National Football Team

Toyota Stadium (豊田スタジアム, Toyota Sutajiamu) is a stadium in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It has a retractable roof.

History

It was built in 2001 and is often used as home to the J1 League club Nagoya Grampus. The stadium is football-specific, which gives matches an authentic football aura; however, its location outside Nagoya city makes it impractical for consolidating the club's fan base in its billed hometown.

It is also used by Toyota Verblitz, a rugby union team in the Japan Rugby League One.

Its roof is unique in that it folds much like an accordion; however, the roof has never been closed since 2015 due to extra costs for maintenance.^{[citation needed]}

Toyota Stadium is one of the venues of the FIFA Club World Cup (formerly the Toyota Cup). The stadium was also used as one of the venues for 2019 Rugby World Cup, the first Rugby World Cup to be held in Asia.^[4] During the Rugby World Cup, the stadium was referred to as "City of Toyota Stadium" due to concerns under ambush marketing rules that the stadium's name could be interpreted as naming rights by car manufacturer Toyota (while the city is named after the company due to it being the location of its headquarters, Toyota does not sponsor the stadium).^[5]

Football international matches

Date	Team 1	Score	Team 2	Competition	Attendance
24 May 2005	United Arab Emirates	0–0	Peru	2005 Kirin Cup	6,536
24 May 2008	Japan	1–0	Ivory Coast	2008 Kirin Cup	40,701
03 Mar 2010	Japan	2–0	Bahrain	2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification	38,042
19 June 2011	Japan	2–0	Kuwait	2012 Summer Olympics qualification	17,873
29 Feb 2012	Japan	0–1	Uzbekistan	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification	42,720
30 May 2013	Japan	0–2	Bulgaria	2013 Kirin Cup	41,353
14 November 2014	Japan	6–0	Honduras	2014 Kirin Cup	42,126
3 June 2016	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2(4)–2(3)	Denmark	2016 Kirin Cup	4,500
3 June 2016	Japan	7–2	Bulgaria	2016 Kirin Cup	41,940
6 October 2017	Japan	2–1	New Zealand	2017 Kirin Cup	38,461
20 November 2018	Japan	4–0	Kyrgyzstan	2018 Kirin Cup	38,353
5 June 2019	Japan	0–0	Trinidad and Tobago	2019 Kirin Cup	38,507

2019 Rugby World Cup matches

Date	Time (JST)	Team #1	Result	Team #2	Round	Attendance
23 September 2019	19:15	Wales	43–14	Georgia	Pool D	35,546
28 September 2019	18:45	South Africa	57–3	Namibia	Pool B	36,449
5 October 2019	19:30	Japan	38–19	Samoa	Pool A	39,695
12 October 2019	13:45	New Zealand	0-0	Italy	Pool B	Match cancelled due to Typhoon Hagibis