May 4, last May, Chongqing Two Rivers Athletic officially announced the cessation of operations, officially withdrew from the Chinese football world. After 1 year, today Yu media upstream news reporter revisited the old place, returned to the former Chongqing team home Yanghe Stadium view, found the stadium full of yellow and green weeds, stadium side of some people planting vegetables, bleachers into the nearby flower market merchants planting nursery, the podium is turned into a barbecue goat store.
Yanghe Stadium was once an important stage for Chongqing soccer," the media outlet said. The stadium's highlight came on November 15, 2008, when Chongqing Lifan returned to the Chinese Super League with a 3-2 home win over Nanjing Youyou. However, with Lifan's relocation of their home ground to Chongqing Olympic Sports Center in 2009, Yanghe Stadium is mostly used as a reserve league for the Chinese Super League and the Chinese First Division."
"A former Lifan club ladder team coach recalled: in late November 2019, after playing and Wuhan Zhuoer's reserve team league, the Chinese Super League changed to a match system, the Yanghe Stadium never hosted a professional ball game, and then used for ladder team training, playing warm-up matches and youth matches. The last time Yanghe Stadium was used was at the end of August 2022, and since then it has not been used, and now the original smooth lawn of the stadium has long been covered by weeds, and as far as the eye can see it has been turned into a grass field. Except for the white goalposts on both sides of the field, the towering lighting towers and the scoreboard, all the soccer-related marks are gradually disappearing."
"The grandstand area next to the stadium, which had fallen into disrepair over the years, was then turned into a plantation for an adjacent flower market business, and the podium was turned into a barbecue restaurant called XX Roasted Lamb. Vegetable gardening was also found in the area of the pitch near the match scoreboard, and the grass field was planted with corn and other crops."
"An insider from Lifan Group, the owner of the stadium, said: 'A local Chongqing property company approached Lifan Group to rent the Yanghe Stadium and the training ground. What exactly will be done is still in the planning process, and it will certainly be moved as soon as possible to give these two venues a new lease of life. Stores around the stadium said the stadium might be turned into a food project, while the property company did not reply on the transformation of Yanghe Stadium."
