Nagaragawa Stadium – stadium description

Which in exact translation means „Nagara River Stadium”. The venue built in 1991 underwent first major renovation in 2009-2011. Initially planned as Gifu’s major athletics stadium it now serves mostly football (to lesser extent rugby and hockey) and the FC Gifu side.

It comprises a typically Japanese feature – sloped land as seating. In practice there are 17,540 seats (of which 9,540 at the main grandstand) and 13,460 places on grass growing behind the seated sections.