Toyota Stadium
A retractable roof over football-specific turf in Toyota City.
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Toyota Stadium (豊田スタジアム, Toyota Sutajiamu) is a stadium in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It has a retractable roof. It was built in 2001 and is often used as home to the J1 League club Nagoya Grampus. The stadium is football-specific. It is also used by Toyota Verblitz, a rugby union team in the Japan Rugby League One. 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.
Quick Facts
- Location
- Toyota, Aichi, Japan
- Groundbreaking
- 1997
- Opened
- July 21, 2001
- Public transit
- Meitetsu:
- Toyota Line at Toyotashi, x
- Aichi Loop Line:
- at Shin-Toyota, x
- Owner
- Toyota City
- Operator
- Toyota Stadium Co., Ltd.
- Roof
- Retractable
- Surface
- Grass
Lore & Background
Built in 2001, Toyota Stadium was designed as a football-specific venue, giving matches an authentic football aura. 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. The stadium has hosted the FIFA Club World Cup (formerly the Toyota Cup) and was a venue for the 2019 Rugby World Cup, the first Rugby World Cup held in Asia. During that tournament, 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.
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