广州市工人体育场

Guangzhou Workers' Stadium at 7 Huanshi West Road in Liwan District was planned by the Guangzhou Federation of Trade Unions in 1955 and substantially completed in 1956, making it one of the city's earliest large multi-purpose sports grounds. It covers about 39,882 square metres with roughly 18,336 square metres of building area. The stadium is the birthplace of the Guangzhou Workers' football team, and internationals such as Rong Zhixing and Wu Qunli began their careers here. It served as a football training venue for the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games and in 2019 hosted the events marking seventy years of Guangzhou football. In March 2019 the pitch was rebuilt: the previous eleven-a-side pitch, seven-a-side pitch and eight 100-metre straight lanes gave way to a 105 by 68 metre natural-turf eleven-a-side field with a six-lane 400-metre track and four five-a-side artificial pitches, reopened on 19 September 2019. A further renovation in 2024 added a steel grandstand and canopy seating more than a thousand spectators. Today the complex operates as the Guangzhou Fangcun Workers' Cultural Palace and Guangzhou Workers' Sports Centre, with a multi-purpose indoor hall, badminton hall, table tennis hall, swimming pool, bocce courts and outdoor basketball courts. It is close to Xicun station on Metro Line 5 and sits beside Huanshi West Road and the Xicun commercial area; after the renovation it can accommodate workers' sports meetings, football leagues and daily running and fitness. The ground is owned by the Guangzhou Federation of Trade Unions and remains one of the main focuses for workers' sport in the city. Court bookings: 020-26282380.