南京青奥体育公园

Nanjing Youth Olympic Sports Park stands at 2 Huan'ao Road in Jiangbei New Area, the only municipal-level sports centre in Nanjing and the only venue cluster built new for the 2014 Youth Olympic Games. Work started in December 2011 and the park was completed in June 2017, covering 180,000 sqm of land with 160,000 sqm of floor area across an arena, a stadium, an indoor training hall and training pitches. The arena accounts for 128,000 sqm, 88,000 above ground and 40,000 below, with a maximum diameter of 166 m and a roof height of 43 m. It seats 20,000, including 3,708 movable places, 38 VIP boxes and 1,433 box seats, and its curved, near-elliptical cone is wrapped in a curtain wall of more than 11,000 glass panels. Built to NBA and FIBA World Cup standards, it can switch between ice and basketball and ranks among the largest indoor arenas in China. The stadium covers 33,000 sqm with 18,022 seats, a 20,667.87 sqm playing field and stands 35.3 m high; its Mondo track surrounds a football pitch that also accommodates rugby. The training hall offers about 3,000 sqm with a 12.35 m clear height and 3,000 spectators. The arena won a Luban Prize in 2019 and was renamed Mengzhilan Arena after a 2024 sponsorship by Yanghe. Metro Line 10 stops at Linjiang Youth Olympic Sports Park station. The park also includes an 8,000 sqm training ground used for athletics camps and youth football, rugby and taekwondo, and since 2017 it has hosted League of Legends finals, concerts and international basketball.