The Tianjin Olympic Centre (), often colloquially referred to as the Water Drop (), is a sports complex with a multi-use stadium named Tianjin Olympic Centre Stadium in Tianjin, China. Construction started in August 2003 and was completed in August 2007. It was the home stadium of Tianjin Jinmen Tiger.
The stadium hosted games for the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup and Football preliminaries at the 2008 Summer Olympics. It also hosted the Athletics competitions at the 2017 National Games of China.
It covers 78,000 square meters and has a capacity of 54,696 seats. It as a length of , a width of , and a height of . The stadium is nicknamed "The Water Drop" because the outside of the venue was designed to resemble a drop of water. The stadium cost nearly 1.5 billion Yuan. The architects were AXS Satow.
In 2011, the venue hosted a football match between Tianjin TEDA and the Spanish side Real Madrid, the first sports club with 100 million followers on Instagram.
The stadium houses sports facilities, exhibition halls, conference rooms and gyms. It also has the capacity for entertainment and shopping complexes. American singer and recording artist Mariah Carey performed The Elusive Chanteuse Show in the stadium on 17 October 2014 and thus making her as the only international artist to have visited Tianjin.
2007 FIFA Women's World Cup matches Date Stage Team Team 18 September 2007 Group B 1–2 33,196 20 September 2007 Group D 2–0 55,832 22 September 2007 Quarter-finals 3–0 29,586 23 September 2007 Quarter-finals 3–2 35,061 26 September 2007 Semi-finals 3–0 35,061
2008 Olympic Football Matches
DateTime (UTC+08)Team #1ResultTeam #2RoundAttendance6 August 200817:00 1-2 Group E23,2016 August 200819:45 2-1 Group E37,9027 August 200817:00 0-1 Group B57,1027 August 200819:45 0-0 Group B52,3909 August 200817:00 1-0 Group E38,2939 August 200819:45 1-1 Group E52,60010 August 200817:00 2-1 Group B42,59210 August 200819:45 2-2 Group B45,01612 August 200817:00 0-1 Group F12,38713 August 200817:00 0-0 Group D47,30713 August 200819:45 1-0 Group A50,43715 August 200818:00 2-1 Quarter Finals (Women)26,174
References
Beijing2008.cn profile