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Metalist Stadium
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multi-use stadium in Kharkiv, Ukraine
Key facts
- Former names
- Tractor Stadium (1926–1940), Dzerzhinets Stadium (1940–1967)
- Location
- Heorhiia Tarasenka str. 65, Kharkiv , Ukraine
- Owner
- Kharkiv City Council
- Operator
- Metalist Kharkiv
- Capacity
- 41,307
- Surface
- Grass
- Record attendance
- 42,000 ( Metalist Kharkiv - Tavriya Simferopol , 23 September 1980)
- Field size
- 105 m × 68 m (344 ft × 223 ft)
- Public transit
- Kharkiv Metro station:, Sportyvna , Metrobudivnykiv
- Opened
- 12 September 1926 ; 99 years ago ( 1926-09-12 )
- Renovated
- 5 December 2009
- Construction cost
- ₴ 206,7 million
- Architect
- Z. V. Permilovskyi
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- stadium
- Country
- Ukraine
- Located in
- Kharkiv
- Operator
- FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv
- Sport
- association football
- Image
- Metalist Stadium Kharkiv.jpg
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- Commons category
- Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv
- maximum capacity
- 40003
- occupant
- FC Metalist Kharkiv
- date of official opening
- 1926-09-12
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- WikiProject Ukraine
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Encyclopedic overview
"Metalist" Oblast Sports Complex (Ukrainian: Обласний спортивний комплекс "Металіст", romanized: Oblasnyi sportyvnyi kompleks "Metalist"), which includes the Metalist Stadium (Ukrainian: Стадіон "Металіст"), is a multi-use stadium in Kharkiv, Ukraine. It is used chiefly for football matches and is the home stadium of FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv. The stadium, which was a venue for Euro 2012, currently seats 40,003 spectators.
After FC Metalist Kharkiv financially collapsed in May 2016 professional football temporary disappeared from the stadium. In August 2016, Metalist 1925 Kharkiv made the stadium its home stadium. Shakhtar Donetsk followed suit in February 2017.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Metalist Stadium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.