Original title: The East Asian Cup relocated to Japan and the men’s football team went to the Aichi women’s football team in Benz City
Article source: Sports Weekly
According to the latest news from Japan, the 2022 East Asia Cup, which will be held in Japan from July 19 to 27 this year, has basically finalized the venues for the men’s and women’s football matches. If there is no accident, the men’s football match will be arranged in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, and the women’s football match will be held in Ibaraki Prefecture.
This is the fourth time that Japan has held the East Asia Cup finals, but in the first three rounds, the venues of the competition were usually placed in the Tokyo metropolitan area, such as Tokyo, Yokohama, Saitama, etc. This time, however, Japan seems to be thinking otherwise. In June this year, the Japanese men’s football team will hold 4 international A-level matches on the mainland, and the venues are widely distributed in Hokkaido, Tokyo, Hyogo and Osaka. Continuing this line of thinking, the JFA hopes to have more cities or regions to host the Japanese men’s and women’s national team matches before the 2022 Men’s World Cup and the 2023 Women’s World Cup. Therefore, in the end, the East Asian Cup men’s football game tends to be placed in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, while the women’s football game is locked in Ibaraki Prefecture. When the Tokyo Olympics were held last summer, the Kashima Football Stadium in Ibaraki Prefecture hosted five women’s football matches, including the semi-final match between the United States and Canada, and the bronze medal match between Australia and the United States, but the Chinese women’s football match was not among them.
The Toyota Stadium in Aichi Prefecture, which is very likely to host the East Asian Cup men’s football game, is also one of the fixed home stadiums of the Japanese men’s football team. It belongs to the Nagoya Orcas in the J-League. Toyota Stadium has hosted many Kirin Cup Invitational Tournaments in the past, and even hosted the Club World Cup six times in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011 and 2012. And its most memorable experience was its use as a venue for the Rugby World Cup in 2019, the first time the event was held in Asia.
However, few Chinese teams have ever visited the stadium. In 2011 and 2012, the Zhejiang team and Tianjin TEDA both went to Nagoya to play in the AFC Champions League, but the venue at that time was the Mizuho Park Land Arena in Nagoya City. In fact, since Toyota Stadium is located outside of Nagoya, it is widely believed that it is difficult to consolidate the fan base of the Nagoya Orcas by holding the J-League here. As for the Kashima Football Stadium in Ibaraki Prefecture, it is an old place visited by many Chinese Super League teams. In the second round of the quarter-finals of the 2019 AFC Champions League, Guangzhou Evergrande, which went to Ibaraki, eliminated Kashima Antlers with the advantage of more away goals in an extremely passive situation. However, in the previous year, Shenhua, SIPG, Quan Jian has never won in this stadium three times. That year, Kashima Antlers was also a strong enemy, winning the AFC Champions League trophy for the first time in history.
In terms of the number of seats, Toyota Stadium can accommodate 44,380 people, and Kashima Football Stadium can seat up to 40,728 people. These are in line with the East Asian Cup competition standards: the stadium must be able to accommodate more than 40,000 spectators.Return to Sohu, see more
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