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The first joint bid of the World Cup was approved, edging out Mexico. Results: South Korea/ Japan (joint bid, voted by acclamation) Mexico; The 2002 FIFA World Cup was co-hosted in Asia for the first time by South Korea and Japan (the opening match was held in South Korea and the final was held in Japan).
France's bid to host the World Cup centered on a national stadium with 80,000 seats and nine other stadiums located across the country. [31] When the finals were originally awarded in July 1992, none of the regional club grounds were of a capacity meeting FIFA's requirements – namely being able to safely seat 40,000. [ 32 ]
The stadium is the home of J1 League football clubs FC Tokyo and Tokyo Verdy and is used as the venue of some lower divisions of football leagues. Rugby union games are also held there. For the 2002 FIFA World Cup , Saudi Arabia 's national team based their training camp at Chōfu and used the stadium as a main training ground, although it did ...
The new plan maintained the steel arch design while reducing the permanent capacity of the stadium to 65,000 in track mode with an additional 15,000 simple temporary seats available, allowing for an 80,000 capacity for football and the 2019 Rugby World Cup.
Saint-Denis , France: 1998 FIFA World Cup final (France 3–0 Brazil) International Stadium: Yokohama, Japan: 2002 FIFA World Cup final (Brazil 2–0 Germany) Olympiastadion: Berlin, Germany: 2006 FIFA World Cup final (Italy 1–1 [5–3 pso] France) Soccer City: Johannesburg, South Africa: 2010 FIFA World Cup final (Spain 1–0 Netherlands ...
Masashi Nakayama scored Japan's first ever goal in a World Cup match against Jamaica on 26 June 1998 in a 2–1 defeat. [1] Keisuke Honda became the first Japanese player to score in three World Cups: 2010, 2014, 2018. [2] Japan made their seventh and most recent appearance at the finals at the 2022 tournament in Qatar.
The road congestion caught international attention in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, [10] scheduled to kick-off at 19:35, October 15, 2024. Australia , staying in the five-star Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo in downtown Bunkyō, Tokyo , [ 11 ] [ 12 ] took 2 hours 9 minutes (16:37-18:46) in their chartered coach to arrive the stadium. [ 11 ]
The kits worn for the 1992 Asian Cup consisted of white stripes (stylized to form a wing) with red diamonds. During the 1996 Asian Cup and the 1998 World Cup, the national team kits were blue jerseys with red and white flame designs on the sleeves, and were designed by JFA (with the sponsor alternating each year between Asics, Puma, and Adidas).