广州大学城体育中心体育场

The stadium at Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Centre Sports Centre is the main arena within a six-venue public sports complex at 208 Inner Ring East Road, Xiaoguwei Island, Panyu District, completed in May 2007 and managed by the Guangzhou Municipal Sports Bureau. It is the same physical stadium catalogued elsewhere in this library as University Town Central Stadium; the two entries record it once at venue level and once at complex level, and the published capacity varies between about 37,784 and about 40,000 depending on whether temporary seats and the VIP platform are counted. The sports centre as a whole covers roughly 400,000 square metres, is the third largest venue cluster in Guangzhou after Guangdong Olympic Sports Centre and Tianhe Sports Centre, and represents an investment of RMB 683 million. Besides the main stadium and a 400-metre athletics training ground, it contains a velodrome, a roller-skating track, a BMX course, a climbing wall and a skatepark. The velodrome, completed in August 2010, covers about 24,000 square metres, is shaped like a silver cycling helmet and holds a 250-metre professional timber track 7.5 metres wide with 3,000 seats, making it the largest and best-equipped velodrome in South China. The extreme sports park covers about 140,000 square metres, trialled in October 2014 and fully opened on 1 January 2015; it includes a 16,000-square-metre skatepark, a 4,600-square-metre roller rink, a 1,200-square-metre BMX course and a 7,000-square-metre climbing wall with eight speed routes, twenty difficulty routes and twelve bouldering routes. Since 2016 the training ground has been leased to Guangzhou R&F, later Guangzhou City, on a twenty-year term as the club's training base, while match, concert and commercial dates are scheduled centrally by the centre.