Panthessaliko Stadio

Panthessaliko Stadio
The Panthessaliko Stadio during the 2004 Summer Olympics
Data
place	Volos , Greece
Coordinates	39 ° 23 '15.1 "  N , 22 ° 55' 51.8"  E Coordinates: 39 ° 23 '15.1 "  N , 22 ° 55' 51.8"  E
opening	July 30, 2004
First game	July 30, 2004 Greece v Australia
surface	Natural and artificial turf mixture
costs	around € 50 million
capacity	22,700 seats
Societies)
Olympiacos Volos
Events
Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics Football League

The Panthessaliko Stadio ( Greek Πανθεσσαλικό Στάδιο ; German  “Total Thessalian Stadium” ) is a football stadium opened in 2004 with an athletics facility in the Greek port city of Volos on the Pagasitic Gulf . It is the largest sports facility in the Thessaly region .

history

The trigger for the stadium construction was the Olympic Games , which were held in Athens in 2004. Besides Piraeus , Patras , Heraklion and Thessaloniki , Volos was also nominated for football competitions thanks to its central location within Greece. The stadium was built in the same place as a smaller, incompletely completed arena. Construction work began in the summer of 2002 and over the next two years a modern stadium was built for around € 50 million, which has a tartan track for athletics competitions . The stadium was inaugurated on July 30, 2004 at the meeting between the Olympic soccer teams of Greece and Australia .

On October 27, 2007, Greece was awarded the contract to host the 2013 Mediterranean Games , which should also take place in the Panthessaliko Stadio as the central venue. Due to its economic crisis, Greece was withdrawn from hosting the Games on January 28, 2011 and the Turkish Mersin was chosen as host in a vote carried out online by the ICMG .

architecture

The Panthessaliko consists of four grandstand sections. Except for the back straight, all have an additional upper tier. Training and warm-up rooms are located below the grandstands. As the only stadium in Greece, the pitch consists of a mixture of natural and artificial turf .

Statistical

• Capacity: 22,700 (excluding seats)
• Record attendance: 21,597 for the match between Greece and Mexico (August 17, 2004 at the Olympic Games)

Web links

• Pictures and information on www.stadia.gr (English)
• Images and information on stadiumdb.com (English)