Boris Paitschadze National Stadium

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Boris Paitschadze National Stadium
Football European Championship qualifier Georgia versus Spain on September 11, 2012
Football European Championship qualifier Georgia versus Spain on September 11, 2012
Data
place GeorgiaGeorgia Tbilisi , Georgia
Coordinates 41 ° 43 '21.7 "  N , 44 ° 47' 23.7"  E Coordinates: 41 ° 43 '21.7 "  N , 44 ° 47' 23.7"  E
opening 29th September 1976
Renovations 2006
surface Natural grass
architect Gia Kurdiani
Archil Kurdiani
capacity 54,549 seats
playing area 105 × 68 m
Societies)
Events
Grandstand plan

The Boris Paitschadze National Stadium ( Georgian ბორის პაიჭაძის ეროვნული სტადიონი / Boris Paitschadsis Erownuli Stadioni ) is a football stadium with an athletics facility in Tbilisi , Georgia . The national stadium is the home ground of the Dinamo Tbilisi soccer club as well as the Georgian national soccer team and the Georgian national rugby union team . It has space for 54,549 spectators, in accordance with UEFA guidelines on individual seats. The upper tiers of the stadium are covered.

history

It opened on September 29, 1976 as the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Stadium with a UEFA Cup game against Cardiff City . The design came from an architects' collective led by Gia Kurdiani. The construction time was ten years. The stadium stands on the site of a smaller stadium from the 1930s that was demolished for the new construction in 1963. Georgia's interior minister at the time, Eduard Shevardnadze , had convinced the party leadership in Moscow that the international successes of Dinamo Tbilisi required a larger stadium.

At the time of opening, it was the third largest stadium in the Soviet Union . It was also used for international matches of the Soviet national football team , the Russian team Spartak Moscow and the Ukrainian team Dynamo Kiev until 1990 .

After the independence of Georgia it remained in state ownership. In 1995 the German national soccer team played there against Georgia in front of 110,000 spectators. In the same year the stadium received the name of Georgia's most popular football player, Boris Paichadze . In 1996, 20,000 old wooden seats in the auditorium were replaced with modern seating furniture.

In April 2006 the stadium was leased by Dinamo Invest Company for a period of 25 years . In the summer of the same year it was completely renovated according to plans by architects Gia and Archil Kurdiani for 10 million US dollars in order to meet international standards. It now has 53,965 modern individual seats and 584 VIP seats, handicapped accessible areas, VIP lounges, 120 press seats, new lawns and running tracks as well as a new floodlight system with 1,600 lux , fixed and mobile cameras for international TV broadcasts.

The UEFA had the stadium as the venue for the UEFA Super Cup selected, 2015. There, FC Barcelona met as Champions League winners and FC Sevilla as Europa League winners. FC Barcelona defeated the Sevilla FC team in a dramatic and competitive game 5: 4 (4: 4, 3: 1) after extra time .

See also

Web links

Commons : Boris Paitschadze National Stadium  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fcdinamo.ge: Boris Paitschadze National Stadium (English)
  2. ↑ Vakhtang Bzikadze: City Guide: Tbilisi. In: uefa.com. UEFA , accessed June 6, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Match report FC Barcelona - FC Sevilla. kicker.de , accessed on August 13, 2015 .