| Fullname: | Guangzhou Football Park |
| Former Names: | Guangzhou Evergrande Football Stadium |
| Location: | Panyu District, Guangzhou, China |
| Cost: | 12 billion yuan (US$1.7 billion) |
| Architect: | Hasan Syed (Gensler) |
| Capacity: | 74,707 |
Guangzhou Football Park is a football stadium under construction in Guangzhou, China. The construction of the 12 billion yuan (US$1.7 billion) stadium began on 16 April 2020.[1] The design of the lotus-shaped stadium was that of Shanghai-based American architect Hasan Syed.[2] The stadium would have had a seating capacity for 100,000 people and was planned to open in December 2022.[1] [3]
In September 2021, the Evergrande Group said that the construction of the stadium would still proceed despite the company's liquidity crisis.[4] In November 2021, the stadium was seized by the Chinese government with plans to sell the incomplete stadium to another company or transfer ownership to the state-owned Guangzhou City Construction Investment Group. At that time construction of the stadium was reportedly halted for at least three months already, contradicting Evergrande's earlier statement.[5]
In mid-2022, due to the Chinese property sector crisis, sparked by the Evergrande Group, the project was cancelled.[6]