Qingdao Youth Football Stadium. Photo by Luan Piwei
West Coast fans cheer for the home team. Photo by Luan Piwei
Thousands of sails and wonderful sailing competitions will attract tourists and citizens to stop.
A week ago, a Qingdao marathon attracted running enthusiasts and even professional runners from all over the country to Qingdao, and the tourist attractions along the marathon were once again on fire; No, in the upcoming May Day holiday, Qingdao has prepared a luxurious "event feast".
▶▶▶ The ball game was staged in turn
The Chinese Super League "Qilu Derby" gathered on the West Coast for the first time
With Qingdao Manatee and Qingdao West Coast team rushing into the Chinese Super League, more and more foreign fans follow the footsteps of the team and come to Qingdao to experience Qingdao's tourism resources while watching the game. Do you still remember the Chinese Super League "Qilu Derby" during the Qingming holiday? On the night of the game, nearly 30,000 fans poured into the stadium, including more than 10,000 Taishan fans from all over the province to Chengyang. Judging from the videos shared by the fans, their footprints are all over the Lujiazhuang Night Market, beer houses, Chengyang Seafood Wholesale Market, etc., to feel the local customs and customs.
In the upcoming May Day holiday, Qingdao West Coast team will usher in the first Chinese Super League "Qilu Derby" in team history, and a large number of fans are expected to pour into the West Coast University Town Stadium. "What's there to do on the West Coast, what to eat, where to stay and go to the stadium?" On the fan forum, many fans of the visiting team have already begun to plan a "football tour" for the holiday.
In addition, on the first day of the holiday, the Qingdao Manatees will sit at the Qingdao Youth Football Stadium to face the challenge of Shanghai Port. In the last game, the Manatees won their first away win in Shenzhen since the team's return to the Chinese Super League, which not only lifted the Manatees out of the relegation zone, but also boosted the team's morale. Results are the guarantee of a team's box office, and as the Manatees gradually improve their form, more and more fans are more willing to walk into the stadium and cheer for the home team. Judging from the ticketing applet, as of now, the 58 yuan tickets have been sold out, and most of the 88 yuan, 98 yuan and 128 yuan tickets have also been sold.
In addition to the fans of the island city, the fans from Shanghai have also begun to assemble to prepare for the holiday expedition to Qingdao Chengyang. In order to catch this wave of traffic brought by football, Chengyang has previously launched the "Watching Football, Visiting Chengyang" six theme sports tourism route guides, which cover all aspects such as eating, drinking, playing, and living.
▶▶▶ Trapeze and surfboard shows
"Sail friends" from all over the country gathered at the Olympic Sailing
Among the many local event IPs, sailing is a shining business card of Qingdao sports events, and a number of domestic and foreign sailing events throughout the year have successively "landed" in the sailing capital, which not only promotes the high-quality development of the marine sports industry through the exchange of development concepts, achievement display and resource docking through the event, but also drives citizens and tourists to watch the event, experience various wonderful marine sports that ride the wind and waves, and promote marine sports to become a characteristic urban life for citizens. At the end of April, the 14th CCOR arrived as scheduled. The 2024 China Sports Industry City Club International Regatta will be held at the Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center from April 27 to May 1.
Gathering in Qingdao Olympic Sailing with CCOR in April every year has become the "muscle memory" of many sailing friends, and this year's competition registration is more popular, once the competition notice is released, the event charter quota is full in early March, which is open to the public and provides convenient and people-friendly boat rental services are very popular, in addition to 10 self-brought boat participating teams have signed up one after another. A total of 41 teams and 244 players signed up for the competition, with a total of FE28R, J80 two keel boat classes and IOM open group, youth group, F5-550 open group, youth group four remote control boat groups, players from Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Xiamen, Hangzhou, Jinan, Harbin and Japan and other places at home and abroad.
This year's event "coincided" with the May Day holiday, and the venue of CCOR was located in the Qingdao Olympic Sailing Marine Cultural Tourism Zone, a new national 5A-level tourist attraction. It is understood that the organizers actively implement the relevant requirements of "sports events into scenic spots, neighborhoods, and business districts", give full play to the comprehensive benefits of sailing events, and attract tourists and citizens to stop with thousands of sail competitions, wonderful sailing competitions and Qingdao Aviation School motorboats, power board athletes to bring "water trapeze" performances and professional power surfboard performances, and play a drainage role with a high degree of professionalism and ornamentation, so as to promote the vitality and prosperity of the Olympic Sailing Scenic Area and further release the consumption potential.
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This year Qingdao will be held
221 competitions above the municipal level
In 2024, the Qingdao Municipal Sports Bureau will work with the Qingdao Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism to create a brand of "Travel with the Event", boost the "traffic" of the event into the "retention" of cultural tourism, and transform the "good resources" of sports events and the "good appearance" of the blue sea and blue sky into the "good value" of sports and tourism integration, activate the huge potential of Qingdao's sports tourism market, and contribute to the high-quality development of Qingdao.
This year, Qingdao plans to hold 221 sports events at or above the municipal level. Among them, there are 11 international-level events, 58 national-level events, 9 provincial-level events, and 143 municipal-level events, which further demonstrates the vitality of Qingdao. The content of the event is rich and colorful, and the forms are diverse, including: sailing, ice skating, unmanned aerial vehicles, nautical models, track and field, swimming, basketball, football, volleyball, table tennis, badminton, taekwondo, golf, rock climbing, fighting, martial arts, fencing and other 54 types of competitive sports, as well as more than 10 types of mass projects that are popular with the public, such as card hunting, sufficiency level, fishing, aerobics and dance, fitness games, and exercise standard competitions. At the same time, more than 130 mass events will be held to further enrich the supply of national fitness events, and community games will be held throughout the year covering more than 610 communities. Qingdao will also promote the scale of sports events to achieve full coverage from the city to the countryside, effectively enrich the content system of "travel with the event", effectively promote the integrated development of the sports industry and commercial tourism through high-level sports events, and realize the delivery of sports services to the "doorstep" of citizens.
Guanhai News/Qingdao Evening News/Pocket Qingdao Reporter Luan Piwei Gao Jingwen
Sports Newsletter
● On April 29, the Chinese Basketball Association issued a notice to announce the list of national men's basketball short training camps, and three players of Qingdao Guoxin Aquatic Men's Basketball Team Yang Hansen, Duan Angjun and Zhao Jiayi were successfully selected. According to the plan, the Chinese men's basketball team will start a 10-day training camp at the Guoxin Basketball Training Base from May 1.
● On April 28, at the 2024 International Archery Federation Archery World Cup Shanghai Station, the Chinese women's archery team composed of Li Jiaman, Yang Xiaolei and An Qixuan defeated the South Korean team 6-2 in the final of the recurve bow women's team and won the championship for the first time.
● In the 2024 World Men's Ice Hockey Championship Division A Group B match on the 28th, the Chinese team made persistent efforts and defeated the Spanish team 7-1 and won two consecutive victories.
● The second round of the group stage of the 2024 Thomas Cup and Uber Cup will be held in Chengdu on the 28th. The Chinese men's and women's teams both defeated the Canadian men's and women's teams 5-0, and both advanced to the group with two consecutive wins.
Upcoming Events
■Super League
On the evening of April 30, Meizhou Hakka VS Qingdao West Coast
On the evening of May 1, Qingdao Manatee VS Shanghai Port
On the evening of May 4, Qingdao West Coast VS Shandong Taishan
On the evening of May 5, Wuhan Three Towns VS Qingdao Manatee
■Naka
On the evening of May 4, Qingdao Red Lion VS Yunnan Yukun