Bursa Ataturk Stadı
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 Bursa , Turkey
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| Coordinates | 40 ° 11 '33.5 " N , 29 ° 2' 55.5" E |
| start of building | 1945 |
| opening | February 1950 |
| First game | Akınspor - Acar İdmanyurdu 2: 1 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 25,661 seats |
| playing area | 105 × 68 m |
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The Bursa Ataturk Stadı (also Bursa Ataturk Stadyumu , German Bursa Ataturk Stadium ) is a football stadium with an athletics facility in the Turkish city of Bursa . It was the home of the Bursaspor football club from 1979 to 2016 . The stadium has a capacity for 25,661 spectators. The Turkish national soccer team managed to defeat national teams like Germany , the Netherlands and Ireland in this stadium .
The stadium is also used for other purposes such as national festivals or athletics competitions. After the championship of Bursaspor in the 2009/10 season and the subsequent direct qualification for the Champions League, the club's management was forced to bring the stadium into a UEFA- compliant state in order to be able to play the 2010/11 UEFA Champions League games in its home stadium . Immediately after the season finale, the renovation work began in mid-May and was successfully completed on August 12, 2010. In the course of the conversion and renovation work, the capacity was increased to 25,661 places.
Since the Bursa Ataturk Stadı was neither comfortable nor sufficient for top division football, a new stadium with a capacity of 45,000 was built. The Timsah Arena ( German crocodile arena ) was opened on December 21, 2015 and has been in play since then. So was u. a. the planned crocodile head on the north side of the stadium has been under construction since December 2016. All work on the stadium was completed in May 2018. It will be the first stadium in the world to take on the shape of the club's mascot.
The Bursa Ataturk Stadı is to be kept for other sports activities for the time being.
Web links
- Bursa Ataturk Stadı on tff.org (English)
- Picture gallery on stadionwelt.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ stadionwelt.de: The crocodile head is finally growing Article from December 7, 2016