. In the
Qing dynasty, it was originally the location of the ammunition depot. When the
Republic era came,
Chen Jiongming planned to turn the area into a sports venue. The playground opened before 1926, and had muddy ground and few facilities. In 1950, the new government renovated the field as a sports stadium and arena for civic celebrations. As the home stadium of first the Guangzhou city side and later the Guangdong provincial side, Yuexiushan hosted a large number of friendly and international matches in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including against Algeria, Sweden and Soviet champions
Spartak Moscow. After the end of the
Cultural Revolution, visiting sides included the West German Olympic Team. Yuexiushan was also the venue for Guangzhou's
National Day celebrations, although an event to mark the 40th anniversary of the Russian October Revolution ended in disaster when 33 people were killed in a crush. Yuexiushan has undergone multiple renovations since the late 1990s which have seen player facilities in the entrance tower at the city end of the ground improved and a roof, electronic scoreboard and fixed plastic seating installed for spectators. Another Guangzhou-based club,
Guangzhou R&F, moved to the venue instead and played their first home game at Yuexiushan in the summer of 2011. The team was promoted to the CSL at the end of the season. Following R&F's third-place finish in 2014, Yuexiushan hosted four
AFC Champions League games under floodlights in 2015. The first match at the refurbished stadium was held on 28 April 2017 when R&F were defeated 3–1 by
Guizhou Hengfeng in the CSL. Yuexiushan was later repainted in gold and green after Guangzhou R&F suffered a poor run of form. The decision was reportedly made on Feng Shui principles. ==Notable events==