大学城中心区体育场

The University Town Central Stadium stands at the northern edge of the Central District Ecological Park on Xiaoguwei Island, Panyu District, Guangzhou, with the inner ring road to the north, Central Lake to the south and hills on three sides. Completed in May 2007, it was one of the principal competition venues of the 2010 Asian Games. The stadium covers about 260,000 square metres and consists of a main stadium plus an athletics training ground, each with a full-size natural-turf football pitch and a 400-metre polyurethane running track. The main roof combines green and white panels, a reference to the Cantonese phrase for cloud-covered hills and Pearl River water, and reads from a distance as a bank of cloud resting between the hills and the lake; it is one of the most recognisable buildings in the university town. The stands hold roughly 40,000 spectators, making the venue the third largest stadium in Guangzhou after Guangdong Olympic Sports Centre and Tianhe Stadium. It has staged Asian Games football, rugby sevens and the running leg of triathlon, as well as World Cup Asian qualifying matches, the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series and the Tokyo Olympic women's sevens Asian qualifier. It served as Guangzhou R&F's temporary home in 2015 and as a Chinese Super League Guangzhou hub venue in 2021. Outside the sporting calendar it is one of the city's busiest concert sites, with Eason Chan, Mayday, Joker Xue, Jeff Chang, Hua Chenyu, Sandy Lam, A-Mei, Wang Yuan and Nicholas Tse all playing here; between 2023 and 2025 it hosted several stadium-scale shows almost every year. The stadium is managed by the Guangzhou Municipal Sports Bureau and opens its track and training ground to the public; rental terms, rigging height limits and sound curfews must be confirmed with the venue for each event.