Lviv Arena

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Lviv Arena
Exterior view of the stadium
Lviv arena in summer 2012
Data
place UkraineUkraine Lviv , Ukraine
Coordinates 49 ° 46 '30 "  N , 24 ° 1' 39"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 46 '30 "  N , 24 ° 1' 39"  E
owner The "Sports Arenas of Ukraine" concern
start of building November 2008
opening October 29, 2011
First game November 15, 2011
Ukraine - Austria 2-1
surface Natural grass
costs approx. 220 million euros
capacity 34,915 seats
playing area 105 m × 68 m
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Events

The Arena Lviv is a football stadium in the Ukrainian city ​​of Lviv ( Ukrainian Львів Lwiw , German 'Lemberg' ). The stadium was the venue for three group games of the European Football Championship 2012 , u. a. the German national soccer team played there twice. It is the home venue of the first division club Karpaty Lviv and temporarily of Shakhtar Donetsk , as before of Metalurh Donetsk .

history

Construction work on a stadium with 34,915 seats began in November 2008. The construction contract was awarded to the German Hochtief Construction . The opening ceremony took place on October 29, 2011 in the unfinished stadium, as according to the UEFA statutes, a European Championship stadium has to go into operation at least six months before the first official match.

From the initially estimated costs of 70 million euros, a total of around 220 million euros developed, which is largely covered by public funds. The increase in costs is seen as an indication that part of the investment sums in numerous EURO 2012 construction projects in Ukraine were not used for construction, but instead seeped away into the contractor's network of companies. The construction costs of a stadium with a comparable construction and equipment should be only a third of the costs of the Lviv Arena.

The venue in Lviv was inaugurated as the last of the Ukrainian EM stadiums. The opening game took place on November 15, 2011 between the national teams of Ukraine and Austria . It ended with a 2-1 win for the hosts. However, since the football club Karpaty Lviv, which was intended to be the main user after the European Championships, moved back to its traditional and for it much closer stadium Ukrajina after just a few months , the arena was hardly used in the following years with annual maintenance costs of two million euros. Karpaty only returned there in the 2014/15 season.

Ukraine crisis

Since the 2014/15 season, Shakhtar Donetsk has temporarily played his home games in the Lviv Arena , around 1,200 kilometers away from the Donbass Arena . The reason for this is the armed conflict in the Ukraine crisis . Metalurh, also from Donetsk, was at home in the south of Lviv during the 2014/15 season, but had to file for bankruptcy shortly before the start of the following season .

location

Location of the Lviv arena

The stadium is close to the bus station ( Avtowoksal ) and the racecourse ( Ipodrom ), on Striyska and the M 06 , about 10 km south of the old town.

European Football Championship 2012

During the European Championship, three preliminary round matches took place in Lviv.

date round home guest phase Result
0June 9, 2012 Preliminary round GermanyGermany Germany PortugalPortugal Portugal Group B 1: 0 (0: 0)
June 13, 2012 Preliminary round DenmarkDenmark Denmark PortugalPortugal Portugal Group B 2: 3 (1: 2)
17th June 2012 Preliminary round DenmarkDenmark Denmark GermanyGermany Germany Group B 1: 2 (1: 1)

gallery

  • Building site

  • start of building

Web links

Commons : Arena Lviv  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sporting Arenas of Ukraine concern created ( Memento from July 18, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), ukraine2012.gov.ua, July 14, 2011 (English)
  2. ^ Ceremonial opening of the Lviv Arena , de.uefa.com, October 29, 2011
  3. ↑ stadion.lviv.ua ( Memento from October 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), July 21, 2011 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ Unfinished stadium opened in Lviv , medwedew.de
  5. ↑ Problems at the European Championship venue Lemberg , sueddeutsche.de
  6. ↑ Austria loses against Ukraine  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , sport10.at@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / sport10.at  
  7. ^ Lemberger Empty , report in the taz from January 2, 2013 about the stadium
  8. ↑ Poor utilization of EM buildings costs Ukraine millions , Oberösterreichische Nachrichten of March 25, 2015
  9. ^ Ukraine conflict War in the East, Football in the West , faz.net of July 23, 2014