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Operator
  
Seongnam

Broke ground
  
August 1997

Province
  
Gyeonggi Province

Team
  
Seongnam FC

Construction cost
  
112.1 billion KRW

Surface
  
Grass

Capacity
  
16,146

Phone
  
+82 31-725-7100

Opened
  
1 April 2002

Tancheon Sports Complex

Former names
  
Seongnam 2 Sports Complex

Location
  
215, Tancheon-ro, Bundang-gu, Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Field size
  
Site: 117,414 m (1,263,830 sq ft) Floor space: 29,220 m (314,500 sq ft)

Address
  
215 Tancheon-ro, Yatap 1(il)-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Similar
  
Seongnam Stadium, 분당올림픽스포츠센터, Pangyoy, Yatab‑Ye, 종합시장

Tancheon Sports Complex (Korean: 탄천종합운동장) is a group of sports facilities in Seongnam, South Korea. Its name was Seongnam 2 Sports Complex but changed to Tancheon Sports Complex in January 2006, naming after Tancheon. The complex consists of the Tancheon Stadium, Tancheon Baseball Stadium and a Sports Club.

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Tancheon Stadium

Tancheon Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium built in 2002 and currently used mostly for football matches and has been the home stadium of Seongnam FC since 2005, replacing the club's previous home, the Seongnam Sports Complex.

The first professional football match ever held was a friendly game between Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma and Poland national football team on 26 May 2002.

In 2009, Seongnam FC moved their home matches to Seongnam Sports Complex as the canopy installation works commenced. The installation was completed in 2010. The first match held since the installation was Seongnam FC's 2010 AFC Champions League game against Kawasaki Frontale on 23 February 2010.

On 12 March 2016, the stadium recorded its first ever K League sold-out match in Seongnam FC's 2016 K League Classic first round game against Suwon Samsung Bluewings.

The stadium is nicknamed the Tancheon Fortress (Hangul: 탄천요새) reflecting Seongnam FC's strong home record in AFC Champions League.

Tancheon Baseball Stadium

The stadium is equipped with AstroTurf and a stand with 955 seats. School Elite Baseball teams are using the stadium from Mondays to Saturdays. For public use, applicants need to apply to a draw for empty time slots.

Tancheon Sports Club

The complex building includes swimming pool, squash court, aerobic exercise centre, ice rink, multi-purpose gym, health club, tennis court, bowling alley, and indoor golf facilities.

In the quarantine camp scene in the South Korean disaster film, Flu (2013), infected persons are placed in plastic bags, with some of them still alive, thrown into a pit in Tancheon Stadium, and incinerated. Mir (Park Min-ha is brought to the pit of bodies to be incinerated but is rescued by Kang Ji-goo (Jang Hyuk). The uninfected people see the pit, and a riot ensues, forcing the evacuation of all medical and military personnel from the camp.

References

Tancheon Sports Complex Wikipedia