Tianjin Olympic Centre

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The Tianjin Olympic Centre (Template:Zh), often colloquially referred to as the Water Drop (Template:Zh), is a sports complex with a multi-use stadium named Tianjin Olympic Centre Stadium in Tianjin, China. Construction started in August 2003 and was completed in August 2007. It was the home stadium of Tianjin Jinmen Tiger.

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The interior of the main stadium

The stadium hosted games for the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup and Football preliminaries at the 2008 Summer Olympics. It also hosted the Athletics competitions at the 2017 National Games of China.

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In 2011, the venue hosted a football match between Tianjin TEDA and the Spanish side Real Madrid, the first sports club with 100 million followers on Instagram.[2][3]

The stadium houses sports facilities, exhibition halls, conference rooms and gyms. It also has the capacity for entertainment and shopping complexes. American singer and recording artist Mariah Carey performed The Elusive Chanteuse Show in the stadium on 17 October 2014 and thus making her as the only international artist to have visited Tianjin.

2007 FIFA Women's World Cup matches

Date Stage Team Res. Team Att.
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