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| Location | Hitsujigaoka 1,Toyohira-ku,Sapporo,Hokkaido,Japan |
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| Public transit | Sapporo Municipal Subway: Tōhō Line atFukuzumi |
| Owner | Sapporo City |
| Capacity | 42,065 (football)[1] 42,270 (baseball)[2][3] |
| Field size | Left Field – 100 m (328.1 ft) Center Field – 122 m (400.3 ft) Right Field – 100 m (328.1 ft) Backstop – 25 m (82 ft) Height of Outfield Fence – 5.75 m (18.9 ft)  |
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| Opened | June 3, 2001 |
| Architect | Hiroshi Hara |
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TheSapporo Dome (札幌ドーム,Sapporo Dōmu), currently known asDaiwa House PREMIST DOME (大和ハウス プレミストドーム,Daiwa hausu puremisuto dōmu) for sponsorship reasons, is astadium located inSapporo,Hokkaido,Japan, and is primarily used forassociation football. It is the home field of the association football clubHokkaido Consadole Sapporo, and was also home to the baseball teamHokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters through the2022 Nippon Professional Baseball season. It was afootball venue for the2020 Summer Olympics,[4] was the venue for the opening ceremony of the2017 Asian Winter Games, and was used for two matches of the2019 Rugby World Cup.[5] The stadium also hosted matches during the2002 FIFA World Cup and serves as the venue for theApex Legends Global Series (ALGS) Championship, having done so since 2025.[6]
On 19 July 2024, it was announced that the stadium would be namedDaiwa House PREMIST DOME from 1 August 2024 to 31 July 2028, due to a four-yearnaming rights contract withDaiwa House, a homebuilding company.[7][8]
Sapporo Dome opened in 2001 with 41,580 seats. The stadium hosted three games during the2002 FIFA World Cup,Germany vsSaudi Arabia,Argentina vsEngland andItaly vsEcuador; all three matches were in the first round.
The Dome hosted the opening ceremonies of the2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships on February 22 and hosted the closing ceremonies of the championships on March 4. It also made history as being the first venue where both indoor and nighttime skiing events took place for the first time on a world championship orWinter Olympic Games level with competitions in thecross-country skiing sprints (men's and women's individual, and men's and women's team) and the cross-country portion of the 7.5 km sprint event in theNordic combined. In order to generate snow, the stadium used its turf conversion hovering system to facilitate the snow making process for the skiing competitions.[9] The opening ceremony featuredMaki Ohguro, a local artist from Sapporo, Japanese drum demonstrations and other performances paying tributes to local customs and traditions.[9] For the championships,seating capacity was reduced to 30,000.[9]
The Dome was used as asuper special stage in Rally Japan in both2008 and2010.
In late 2009, renovations with the possibility of increasing the capacity up to 53,796 were finished. These renovations also included space for more food outlets, an extra video screen, two extra changing rooms (to accommodate preseason matches in theNFL International Series, which have up to 75 players per team) and further media area as part of new office buildings attached to the stadium. As part of these renovations, the surface area of the arena itself was decreased to allow for more seating.
Beginning in 2023, the dome's surface became soccer-only, as the Fighters moved intotheir own new stadium in nearbyKitahiroshima.
The Dome switches between two entirely different surfaces: Baseball games are played on an underlying artificial turf field, whileassociation football games are held on a grass pitch that slides into and out of the stadium as needed.
Conversion from baseball to football begins with the storage of the baseball field's artificial turf. Once finished, a set of lower bowl bleachers rotate from an angled position for baseball to a parallel position. A set of main bowl seats on one end of thedome then retracts, and the football pitch is slid into the stadium. The lower bowl is then rotated 90 degrees. Conversion from football to baseball occurs in reverse. Due to the retraction of seats, the Stadium has a capacity of 40,476 for baseball games.
Other stadiums that feature sliding pitches include theGelreDome in theNetherlands,Veltins-Arena inGermany,State Farm Stadium inGlendale, Arizona,United States, andAllegiant Stadium inParadise, Nevada, United States, along with the split pitch ofLondon'sTottenham Hotspur Stadium andMadrid'sSantiago Bernabéu Stadium; however, unlike these facilities (with the exception of Allegiant Stadium), the Sapporo Dome has a fixed roof.
| Date | Team 1 | Result | Team 2 | Round (A, B, C, D...) | Attendance |
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| 1 June 2002 |  Germany | 8–0 |  Saudi Arabia | Group E | 32,218 |
| 3 June 2002 |  Italy | 2–0 |  Ecuador | Group G | 31,081 |
| 7 June 2002 |  Argentina | 0–1 |  England | Group F | 35,927 |
| Date | Time (JST) | Team #1 | Result | Team #2 | Round | Attendance |
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| 21 September 2019 | 13:45 |  Australia | 39–21 |  Fiji | Pool D | 36,482 |
| 22 September 2019 | 19:15 | England | 35–3 |  Tonga | Pool C | 35,923 |
| Date | Time (JST) | Team 1 | Result | Team 2 | Round | Attendance |
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| 22 July 2021 | 16.30 |  Egypt | 0–0 |  Spain | Group C | 0 |
| 22 July 2021 | 19.30 | Argentina | 0–2 | Australia | Group C | 0 |
| 25 July 2021 | 16.30 | Egypt | 0–1 | Argentina | Group C | 0 |
| 25 July 2021 | 19.00 | Australia | 0–1 | Spain | Group C | 0 |
| Date | Time (JST) | Team 1 | Result | Team 2 | Round | Attendance |
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| 21 July 2021 | 16.30 |  Great Britain | 2–0 |  Chile | Group E | 0 |
| 21 July 2021 | 19.30 |  Japan | 1–1 | Australia | Group E | 0 |
| 24 July 2021 | 16.30 | Chile | 0–1 |  Canada | Group E | 0 |
| 24 July 2021 | 19.00 | Japan | 0–1 | Great Britain | Group E | 0 |
Other domed stadiums inJapan:
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| Preceded by | Asian Winter Games Opening Ceremonies 2017 | Succeeded by TBA |
