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Yomiuri Giants vs Chunichi Dragons — Nippon Baseball League

Yomiuri Giants

Yomiuri Giants

VS

09:00:00

Tokyo Dome

Chunichi Dragons

Chunichi Dragons

Match Facts

  • Venue: Tokyo Dome
  • Yomiuri Giants home ground: Tokyo Dome
  • Chunichi Dragons stadium: Vantelin Dome Nagoya
  • Yomiuri Giants founded 1934
  • Chunichi Dragons founded 1936
  • League country: Japan

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Yomiuri Giants

Nippon Baseball League

Stadium
Tokyo Dome
Founded
1934
Country
Japan
Location
Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

The Yomiuri Giants are a professional baseball team based in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. The team competes in the Central League in Nippon Professional Baseball. They play their home games in the Tokyo Dome, opened in 1988. The team's owner is the Yomiuri Group, a media conglomerate which includes two newspapers and a television network. The Giants are the oldest team among the current Japanese professional teams. Their main rivalry is with the Hanshin Tigers, a team especially popular in the Kansai region. The Yomiuri Giants are regarded as "The New York Yankees of Japan" due to their widesprea...

Official Kits

Yomiuri Giants 1st kit

1st · 2021

Chunichi Dragons

Nippon Baseball League

Stadium
Vantelin Dome Nagoya
Founded
1936
Country
Japan
Location
Nagoya, Japan

The Chunichi Dragons are a professional baseball team based in Nagoya, the chief city in the Chūbu region of Japan. The team plays in the Central League of Nippon Professional Baseball. They have won the Central League pennant 9 times (most recently in 2011) and the Japan Series twice in 1954 and 2007. They were also champions in the 2007 Asia Series. The Chunichi Dragons were formed in 1936 as the Nagoya Club. The franchise was acquired by the Chunichi Shimbun newspaper company in 1946. They became the "Dragons" in 1947, but experimented with a number of variations on their team name be...

Official Kits

Chunichi Dragons 1st kit

1st · 2021

Nippon Baseball League

Nippon Professional Baseball (日本野球機構, Nippon Yakyū Kikō) or NPB is the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it is often called Puro Yakyū (プロ野球), meaning Professional Baseball. Outside Japan, it is often just referred to as "Japanese baseball". The roots of the league can be traced back to the formation of the "Greater Japan Tokyo Baseball Club" (大日本東京野球倶楽部, Dai-Nippon Tōkyō Yakyū Kurabu) in Tokyo, founded in 1934, and the original circuit...