浙江师范大学东体育场

The East Stadium of Zhejiang Normal University sits on the eastern side of the university's main campus at 688 Yingbin Avenue, Wucheng District, Jinhua. It was one of the football venues of the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, sharing Jinhua's group-stage matches with the stadium at Jinhua Sports Centre. The building covers 8,391 square metres and holds 11,349 spectators. Its pitch is a 400-metre standard track around a natural-turf football field; for the Asian Games the infield was upgraded to Class I athletics standards, adding javelin, discus and hammer throwing areas so that it can stage domestic track and field meets as well as international football. The turf was laid with satellite positioning to control accuracy, and the surface is deliberately built about three millimetres per metre higher in the middle than at the sides, a crown that lets monsoon rain drain away — a detail no television camera catches. Before the Games the stadium had already hosted the 12th Zhejiang Provincial University Games, the provincial university athletics elite meet, the provincial university football championship and the provincial secondary-school athletics games. A second, North Stadium on campus served as the warm-up ground during the Games; the university owns three stadiums in all, an unusually rich provision among Chinese universities. After the Games the East Stadium reopened to the public outside teaching and training hours, becoming a place where residents of southern Jinhua run and play football. Access is via Yingbin Avenue, with a ZJNU bus stop outside the gate; the campus is about forty minutes from Hangzhou and one hundred minutes from Shanghai by high-speed rail, and buses connect both Jinhua railway stations to the campus.