南宁市体育场

Nanning Municipal Stadium at 62 Taoyuan Road in the Qingxiu District traces its origin to the People's Sports Ground, also called the racecourse, laid out in December 1935; it was formally established in October 1953 and is the oldest public sports ground in the city, now run under the municipal sports bureau. In February 2025 the stadium and the former Nanning handball training base were merged into the Nanning Sports Venues Service Centre, which also carries the handball base name. The athletics ground is the core: 25,000 sqm of floor area and 19,394 sqm in use, with a 400 m synthetic track, a standard football pitch and a main stand seating 2,000. Around it sit a tennis centre, two indoor training halls, a handball hall and the Taoyuan swimming pool. The tennis centre has 3,000 sqm and four standard synthetic courts; Training Hall One has 1,760 sqm over three floors, with gymnastics and acrobatics on the ground floor, 41 table tennis tables on the second and a basketball court on the third that converts to badminton and light volleyball, seating more than 800; Training Hall Two has 1,500 sqm with weightlifting, wushu and six professional badminton courts stacked floor by floor; the handball hall has 1,900 sqm for handball and badminton; and the Taoyuan pool complex covers 6,600 sqm with a standard pool, a children's pool, fixed terracing for more than 1,000 and 24-hour water recirculation. Together the site supports 19 sports and close to a thousand athletes training at once, with more than 900,000 visits a year. The tennis courts were smartened up in 2021 with online booking, the stadium was named a national advanced unit for mass sport in 2021, and 12,300 people used the site on National Fitness Day in 2024.