Photo Caption (from left to right): Clarence Lam (Singapore Legends Team Member), Oon Jin Teik (COO, Singapore Sports Hub) and Brendan Morris (SANZAR Operations Manager) declare the Singapore Sports Hub rugby-ready.
Singapore, 10 March 2016 – With world-class rugby set to hit fever pitch with the season of international rugby kicking off this Saturday, 12 March, the Singapore Sports Hub today declared the facility ready for rugby buzz.
The first sporting match to be played at the National Stadium in 2016 will see the HITOCommunications Sunwolves make its Singapore home debut against the Toyota Cheetahs.
The HITO-Communications Sunwolves is the first Asian team in the newly-expanded Super Rugby league, and the Toyota Cheetahs is a South African rugby union team that entered the Super Rugby competition, in 2006.
The head to head game will also mark the first ever Super Rugby match at the Singapore Sports Hub, which will be followed by two more – on 26 March and 14 May – where HITO-Communications Sunwolves go up against Vodacom Bulls and DHL Stormers, respectively. In April, the Singapore Sports Hub welcomes the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, which returns to Singapore and the National Stadium after 10 years.
Preceding the match on Saturday, 12 March, a special curtain raiser between the Singapore Legends and Asian Japanese Dragons, comprising former national and club rugby players from Singapore and Japan, respectively, will take place in celebration of all things rugby.
About the upcoming match:
The HITO-Communications Sunwolves and Toyota Cheetahs will go head to head this Saturday at 6.50pm. The curtain raiser game between the Singapore Legends vs Asian Japanese Dragons will begin at 5pm. Tickets are available at www.sportshub.com.sg.
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The Singapore Sports Hub is Singapore's premier sports, entertainment and lifestyle hub with integrated community programming.
Consisting of a unique cluster development of integrated world-class sports facilities within the city, it plays a critical role in accelerating the development of sports industry, excellence and participation, and will take sports to the next level in Singapore.
Located on a 35-hectare site in Kallang, the Singapore Sports Hub will include the following facilities:
- A new 55,000-capacity National Stadium with a retractable roof and movable tiered seating
- 100PLUS Promenade that encircles the National Stadium
- A 6,000-capacity OCBC Aquatic Centre that meets FINA standards
- A 3,000-capacity OCBC Arena which is scalable and flexible in layout
- Water Sports Centre featuring kayaking and canoeing
- 41,000 sq m Kallang Wave Mall
- The iconic Singapore Indoor Stadium
- Shimano Cycling World
- Singapore Youth Olympic Museum & Singapore Sports Museum
- Sports Hub Library
- Daily community facilities and activities open for Singaporeans, including beach volleyball, hard courts for futsal, basketball and netball, lawn bowls, giant chess, skate park, climbing wall and running & cycling paths
The Singapore Sports Hub, which is managed by SportsHub Pte Ltd, is one of the largest sporting Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects in the world. It is also Singapore's largest flagship PPP project of this nature, and has won the PFI award in London in 2011, World Architecture Festival Awards for Best Future Project in the leisure-led development category in 2013 and Sports Building of the Year in 2014.
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