Ramat Gan Stadium
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 Ramat Gan , Israel
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| Coordinates | 32 ° 6 '1 " N , 34 ° 49' 27" E |
| owner | Israel Football Association |
| opening | 1951 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| architect | Ivor Shaw Friba |
| capacity | 41,583 seats |
| playing area | 105 × 68 m |
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The Ramat Gan Stadium ( Hebrew איצטדיון רמת-גן) is a football stadium with an athletics facility in the Israeli city of Ramat Gan , a suburb of Tel Aviv . It was the country's national stadium until 2014 .
history
The sports facility was completed in 1951 and with 41,583 seats is also the largest stadium in Israel. The sports facility has been part of the Maccabiade since the 1950s . In 1964 it was one of four stadiums in the 1964 Asian Football Championship and the Israeli national team secured the tournament victory here with a 2-1 victory over South Korea. For a long time it was the only facility in the country that met the requirements of the UEFA for Champions League and Europa League matches and FIFA for qualifying matches for the World Cup . All Israeli clubs that qualified for the Champions League played their home games here. Examples are Maccabi Tel Aviv in the 2004/05 season and Maccabi Haifa in the 2009/10 season. The Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv has also been compliant with the requirements since 2010 and is used for Champions League games, as is the Sammy Ofer Stadium in Haifa , which opened in 2014, and the converted Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem .
There were plans to demolish the stadium and replace it with a larger one to make room for around 70,000 spectators. This new building would have cost around 100 million US dollars and should be completed in 2011 and 2012.
The football club Hapoel Ramat Gan has been using the stadium for its games since 2015 .
