天津市海河教育园体育中心

Tianjin Haihe Education Park Sports Centre stands at 5 Tiyu Huan Road in the Haihe Education Park, Jinnan District, with gate 19 opening onto the ring road. A large venue directly under the Tianjin Municipal Sports Bureau, it is responsible for staging events, supporting team training, delivering public fitness services and developing sports business, and is organised into four departments including a general office and an operations section. Construction started in January 2011, the centre was completed in June 2012 and opened that September. The stadium has about 43,000 sqm of floor area, an eight-lane athletics track and a standard football pitch built to international specifications, roughly 29,000 fixed seats and a further 180 seats for spectators with disabilities and their companions in the north and south stands, allowing it to stage athletics and football. It hosted part of the ninth National University Games in September 2012 and women's football at the 2013 East Asian Games, and served as the home of Tianjin Quanjian from 2016 to 2018. The accompanying swimming hall, completed in 2012, occupies 15,000 sqm of land with 12,000 sqm of floor area and contains a competition pool, a training pool and a leisure pool, four changing rooms for 200 swimmers at a time and two badminton courts on the first floor. The centre sits among universities and vocational colleges and is a focus for fitness and school sport in Jinnan. Tianjin Avenue and Jingang Highway provide road access. The swimming hall is open to the public with its competition, training and leisure pools, and the centre also runs badminton and fitness programmes for local residents alongside school and district competitions.