Christo Botew Stadium (Plovdiv)
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| College stadium | |
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| The Christo Botev Stadium in Plovdiv in June 2012 | |
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 Plovdiv , Bulgaria
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| Coordinates | 42 ° 8 '23.5 " N , 24 ° 45' 52" E |
| owner | City of Plovdiv |
| opening | 1961 |
| Renovations | 1993, 2008 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 22,000 seats |
| playing area | 105 × 70 m |
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The Christo Botew Stadium is a football stadium in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv . It has space for 22,000 spectators and is the home of the Botew Plovdiv association .
history
The Christo Botew Stadium in Plovdiv , with 381,000 inhabitants the second largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia , was built between 1959 and 1961 after the foundation stone for the construction of the stadium was laid on July 21, 1959. On May 14, 1961, the then college stadium was opened. For the first game in the new stadium, the future user of the venue, Botew Plovdiv, and the Romanian top club Steaua Bucharest met for a friendly game. Since that day, the Botev Plovdiv club has been using the stadium as a venue for its home games. Botev has been able to win the Bulgarian football championship twice to this day , with a title win in this stadium could be celebrated, namely the one in 1967. In addition, the club also managed to win the Soviet Army Cup twice . The cup victory in 1981 is the last big success of the club, which is currently playing in the third Bulgarian football league after having had financial problems and the sporting decline began in the 2000s. The biggest event in the Christo Botew Stadium to However, Plovdiv was not a game of the local club, but the Bulgarian Cup final in 2000. In this game, which took place only due to the renovation of the national stadium in Sofia in Plovdiv, Levski Sofia secured the cup victory by beating FK Neftochimik from Burgas 2-0 .
Today the Christo Botew Stadium has a capacity of 22,000 spectators. At the time of the opening, 35,000 onlookers fit into the wide area designed by the architect Anton Karawelow. The highest number of spectators was reached when On February 27, 1963 Atlético Madrid made a guest appearance in the quarter-finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup in Plovdiv. The game ended in a 1-1 draw. The second leg at the Estadio Vicente Calderón in Madrid , however, Botew lost 4-0, so they were eliminated. Since then the capacity has been reduced with two renovations in 1993 and 2008, so that the stadium can now accommodate 22,000 spectators and is still the seventh largest stadium in Bulgaria. After it got after its construction college stadium was called, they renamed later in reference to the Bulgarian poet and freedom fighter Hristo Botev in Hristo Botev Stadium to. The surname of the national poet (1848–1876) is also part of the club name of Botew Plovdiv.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Plans by the architects Anton Karawelow ( 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.
