Kim Il-sung Stadium
Kim Il-sung Stadium is a stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea that opened in 1926. Its recorded capacity is 40,000.
Key facts
Kim Il-sung Stadium is a stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea that opened in 1926. Its recorded capacity is 40,000. No current owner is recorded. The venue does not currently carry a sponsor name. Current tenants are North Korea men's national football team, North Korea women's national football team, Football clubs based in Pyongyang, Pyongyang City Sports Club, North Korea men's national football team, North Korea women's national football team, Pyongyang FC.
- Location
- Pyongyang, North Korea
- Type
- Stadium
- Capacity
- 40,000
- Opened
- 1926
- Status
- Active
- Current owner
- Not recorded
- Naming rights
- No current sponsor name
- Name changes
- 1
- Playing surface
- Artificial turf
Kim Il-sung Stadium is at latitude 39.043722, longitude 125.757694, in Pyongyang, North Korea. The marker is drawn from the recorded coordinates. The building outline appears here once OpenStreetMap footprint geometry is available for this venue.
Data table for this chart
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Latitude | 39.043722 |
| Longitude | 125.757694 |
| City | Pyongyang |
| Region | Pyongyang |
| Country | North Korea |
| OpenStreetMap object | Not recorded |
| Footprint geometry | Not yet exported by the pipeline |
Technology
| Feature | Recorded as | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface | Artificial turf | Wikipedia infobox | Source |
See the venue technology guides for how these work.
Naming rights
Kim Il-sung Stadium has carried 2 recorded names. Kirimri Stadium (no sponsor) ran Present. Moranbong Stadium (no sponsor) ran Present.
Data table for this chart
Ownership and operation
No ownership or operator rows are recorded for this venue.
Tenants
| Tenant | Competitions | Period | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Korea men's national football team | Not mapped | Present | Current | Source |
| North Korea women's national football team | Not mapped | Present | Current | Source |
| Football clubs based in Pyongyang | Not mapped | Present | Current | Source |
| Pyongyang City Sports Club | Not mapped | 1926 to present | Current | Source |
| North Korea men's national football team | Not mapped | 1926 to present | Current | Source |
| North Korea women's national football team | Not mapped | 1926 to present | Current | Source |
| Pyongyang FC | Not mapped | 1926 to present | Current | Source |
Recorded changes
17 changes to this venue have been recorded by the monthly pipeline runs.
| Date | Table | Field | From | To | Month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 October 2026 | venue_features | (created) | not set | 1504 | 2026-10 |
| 28 September 2026 | venue_names | source_date | 2026-09-23 | 2026-09-28 | 2026-09 |
| 28 September 2026 | venue_names | source_date | 2026-09-23 | 2026-09-28 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venue_names | source_date | 2026-09-20 | 2026-09-23 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venue_names | source_date | 2026-09-20 | 2026-09-23 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venues | capacity | 70000 | 40000 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venues | wikipedia_revid | not set | 1375661567 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venues | wikipedia_title | Kim_Il_Sung_Stadium | Kim Il Sung Stadium | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_names | (created) | not set | Moranbong Stadium | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_names | (created) | not set | Kirimri Stadium | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 19573 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 19572 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 19571 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 8121 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 8120 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 8119 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 8118 | 2026-09 |
Sources and licenses
Every ownership, naming and sponsorship row on this page carries the URL it was derived from. The site as a whole is built from these sources:
- Wikidata: CC0 1.0. Data from Wikidata, released under CC0 1.0 Universal.
- OpenStreetMap: ODbL 1.0. © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0). See https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright.
- Wikipedia: CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from Wikipedia, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.
Row-level sources used for this venue: