Dnipro Arena

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Dnipro Arena
Panoramio - V&A Dudush - Домашняя арена Днепра.jpg
Data
place UkraineUkraine Dnipro , Ukraine
Coordinates 48 ° 27 '36.6 "  N , 35 ° 1' 56.9"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '36.6 "  N , 35 ° 1' 56.9"  E
owner FK Dnipro
opening September 14, 2008
First game Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk - Spartak Moscow
surface Natural grass
costs approx. € 40 million
architect J. Serjogin architectural office
capacity 31.003
playing area 105 m × 68 m
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Events

The Dnipro Arena ( Ukrainian Дніпро-Арена ) is the club's own football stadium of the Ukrainian football club FK Dnipro in the city of Dnipro . Before that, they played in the old Meteor Stadium from 1966.

history

The stadium with 31,003 covered seats, designed by the J. Serjogin architectural office and built by the German construction company Hochtief , was opened on September 14, 2008 in the presence of the then President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko . Construction began on April 1, 2005 and the cost of the new building was € 40 million . The first game in the stadium was made by two traditional teams from Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and Spartak Moscow . In the first official game on September 29, 2008 Dnipro received the team of Metalurh Zaporizhia in front of 27,000 spectators . Dnipropetrovsk lost the league game 1: 2.

North entrance to the Dnipro Arena

In addition to the VIP boxes with 293 seats, 550 business seats have also been set up in the stadium. The five-story main building contains a large restaurant with around 600 seats; there are also two banquet rooms with kitchen facilities. There are 219 jobs for journalists. The playing field has underfloor heating and an irrigation system . The new stadium was intended as one of the venues for the 2012 European Football Championship . Three preliminary round matches were to be played in the stadium, but due to the insufficient capacity it was exchanged for the Metalist stadium in Kharkiv with around 41,000 seats.

The Hochtief company complained in the summer of 2013 that eleven million euros of the construction costs of the stadium had not yet been paid. The financial claims against the club are now wanted to enforce with legal means. During a training camp in Bad Erlach in Lower Austria in July 2013 , Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk was therefore visited by a bailiff with an execution order .

Events

So far, the Ukrainian national football team has played twice in the new Dnipro stadium. It was the first victory of the Ukrainians over the English national team.

  • November 19, 2008: Ukraine 1-0 NorwayUkraineUkraineNorwayNorway
  • October 10, 2009: Ukraine 1-0 EnglandUkraineUkraineEnglandEngland

On May 31, 2009, the venue hosted the Ukrainian Cup final between Vorskla Poltava and Shakhtar Donetsk (1-0).

Web links

Commons : Dnipro Arena  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Match report Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk - Metalurh Zaporischschja , weltfussball.de
  2. ↑ Data on the stadium's equipment ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , hochtief-construction.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hochtief-construction.de
  3. ↑ Debt collector visits football club , taz from July 15, 2013
  4. ↑ As of April 2010
  5. ↑ All games of the Ukrainian national football team , ffu.org.ua (Ukrainian, English)