Live broadcast on August 9th news Shenhua moved its home court to Shanghai Stadium this season, which is also called “80,000 people Stadium”. As for why there are no more than 80,000 people sitting, but it is also called “80,000 people Stadium”, Xinmin Evening News published an explanation of the origin of this name.
Shanghainese are used to calling it “80,000 people Stadium”. Why is it called “80,000 people”? When the stadium was first put into use in the 8th National Games, many temporary seats were added, and the combined capacity was close to 80,000. Shanghainese felt that this number and the stadium were very magnificent, representing the strength and prospect of greater Shanghai, so it was established that “80,000 people” became the famous name of the stadium.
Shanghai Stadium is designed by Wei Dunshan, a sports architectural design expert and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. The design thought at that time is still at the forefront now-on limited land, it can accommodate comprehensive functions such as large-scale international track and field football matches, star hotels and water clubs, which can be described as small bases and many functions, high requirements. The stadium started the scheme design in 1991and transferred to the site design and completed the construction drawing in 1993. Wei Dunshan devoted himself to it for three years. He commented, “This is a challenge I have never faced in my design career for more than 40 years.”
After the Shanghai Stadium was put into use, it left indelible football marks in the hearts of Shanghainese. In 1998, Shanghai Shenhua team moved the home court of League A to this place; In the same year, Shenhua team defeated Liaoning team in the final and won the Football League championship for the first time; another Shanghai team harbor has been sitting at home here for many years. “80,000 people” witnessed their step-by-step strength and finally won the podium of the Chinese Super League championship.
Today, Shanghai Stadium has been transformed into a professional football stadium. In order to make the venue more in line with the needs of football matches, Shanghai Stadium raised the grandstand area on the first floor by 1.6 meters, combined with the original track and field track area to jointly set up 17 rows of permanent steel structure watchstands and 17 rows of temporary grandstands, the temporary stand is set up for the stadium to be rebuilt according to the operational requirements in the future. At the same time, the stadium core is dug 1.7 meters, one lift and one drop, improving the visual gradient of the stands, making the audience closer to the players. After the transformation, the seats of the stadium were expanded from 56000 to 72000, and the number of “80,000 people” was really close.
(Derison)