Omiya Park Soccer Stadium

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Omiya Park Soccer Stadium is a stadium dedicated to football (soccer) in Omiya-ku, Saitama, Saitama, Japan. It is the home stadium of the J.League Division 1 club Omiya Ardija. The stadium holds 12,500 spectators. It hosts matches of the National Senior High School Soccer Championships as well as several other stadia in the Greater Tokyo Area.

It and was built in 1964 to host several football matches of 1964 Summer Olympics and 1967 National Sports Festival of Japan. It was one of the first stadia in Japan dedicated to soccer.

As of 2006 it is under expansion of its spectator capacity to match the reqirement of the J. League Division 1 requirements for Ardija to host its home matches. Ardija will use Saitama Stadium 2002 and Urawa Komaba Stadium until then.

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