- Address: Shanghai
- Country: China
- Capacity: 37,000
- Opened: 22 October 2021
- Main use: Football
- Tenants: Shanghai Port (football)
Extra stadium info – SAIC Motor Pudong Arena
The construction of the football stadium, which is located in Pudong, started in 2018. Shanghai Port Football Club use the venue for home games. In 2018, they were crowned Chinese football champions for the first time in their history. Shanghai Port drew an average home attendance of 21,000 in that league season. They gathered 68 points after they won 21 of the 30 league matches during that football season. Five games ended in a draw and four games ended in a defeat.
Football players
Givanildo Vieira de Sousa, Marko Arnautović and Oscar dos Santos Emboaba Júnior signed with the club which is now known as Shanghai Port. They became three of the most expensive players in the Chinese top-flight football league. The Chinese football star Wu Lei played hundreds of Chinese top-flight football league games for Shanghai Port. When he was 14 years old, he became the youngest player in the Chinese top-flight football league. Wu Lei scored numerous goals for Shanghai Port, then known as SIPG, before he joined the Spanish side RCD Espanyol in 2019.
Espanyol
RCD Espanyol won the Spanish cup tournament several times. In 1988, they played their first-ever two-legged UEFA Cup final against Bayer Leverkusen from Germany. Espanyol reached the two-legged UEFA Cup final after beating Club Brugge from Belgium. Bayer Leverkusen defeated the German side Werder Bremen in the semi-finals of the tournament. Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol de Barcelona won the first leg 3-0. The match took place in Barcelona in front of a crowd of 31,000. Bayer Leverkusen won the second leg, which took place in Leverkusen in front of 21,000 spectators, 3-0. Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball won the UEFA Cup for the first time in their history in a penalty shoot-out.
