Nihodaira Sports Stadium (静岡市日本平スタジアム, Shizuoka-shi Nihondaira Sutajiamu) is a football stadium in Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka, Japan. It is currently mostly used for football matches and has been the home stadium of the J-League's Shimizu S-Pulse since 1993. The stadium holds 20,339 people and was opened in 1991. In November 2008 a four year naming deal was announced expected to earn S-Pulse 360000000 yen. The stadium will be known as The Outsourcing S...
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Nihodaira Sports Stadium (静岡市日本平スタジアム, Shizuoka-shi Nihondaira Sutajiamu) is a football stadium in Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka, Japan. It is currently mostly used for football matches and has been the home stadium of the J-League's Shimizu S-Pulse since 1993. The stadium holds 20,339 people and was opened in 1991. In November 2008 a four year naming deal was announced expected to earn S-Pulse 360000000 yen. The stadium will be known as The Outsourcing Stadium.
The stadium first opened in 1991 with two stands and a capacity of 13000. In its debut year the stadium was used to host the football tournament of the annual All Japan High School Athletics Meet. Subsequent expansion took place before the first J-League season in 1993 which added two more stands and took the capacity up to 18,500. Since then, the ground has been further expanded with the current capacity standing at 20,339. Future expansion is far from impossible, although limited access to the stadium is the biggest hurdle towards a...
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