Trivia
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Riot Games (publisher of "League of Legends World Championships") has announced that the finals of its upcoming World Championships will be held in the Shanghai Stadium in 2020.
The
Shanghai Stadium was inaugurated in
1997 when the
8th National Games of China took place in Shanghai. It seats nearly 57,000 people and was designed by the
Shanghai Institute of Architectural Design & Research and highlights a deviated, saddle-shaped shelter, with a moulded fibreglass layer. The stadium may have been constructed in 1997 as the essential venue for the National Games of the People’s Republic of China, but the Shanghai Stadium has since gone on to host several sporting competitions, counting several
2008 Summer Olympics soccer matches and the
2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games opening ceremony. The Shanghai Stadium is for multi-purpose, currently used generally for
football matches of Chinese Super League side
Shanghai International Port Group FC. It is presently not inside the list of the thirty biggest
football stadiums within the world and is the
third biggest stadium in China after the Guangdong Olympic Stadium and the
Beijing National Stadium. The Stadium was utilized for football preliminaries at the 2008
Summer Olympics.