The Chinese Football Association announced on the 7th that the World Cup qualifying home match between the national football team and the Thai team will be held in Shenyang, and the game time will be 20:00 on June 6. The national footballteam defeated Oman 1:0 at Wulihe Stadium on October 7, 2001, to win their World Cup finals ticket for the first time in history.

The last time Shenyang played in the "Blessed Land" Shenyang was back in the top 12 of the Asian preliminaries in 2016, when they drew 0:0 with the powerful Iranian team.