Adem Jashari Stadium

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Adem Jashari Stadium
Olympic Stadium “Adem Jashari” during the Kosovo – Haiti game on March 5, 2014
The Adem Jashari Stadium during the Kosovo – Haiti game on March 5, 2014
Earlier names

Trepča Stadium

Data
place KosovoKosovo Mitrovica , Kosovo
Coordinates 42 ° 52 '55.6 "  N , 20 ° 51' 3.6"  E Coordinates: 42 ° 52 '55.6 "  N , 20 ° 51' 3.6"  E
owner City of Mitrovica
operator KF Trepça
Renovations 2014, 2016, 2017, 2020-
surface Natural grass
capacity 28,500 seats
playing area 105 × 67 m
Societies)

The Adem Jashari Stadium ( Albanian  Stadiumi Olimpik Adem Jashari ) or Trepça Stadium (Albanian Stadiumi i Trepçës , Serbian Стадион Трепча Stadion Trepča ) is a football stadium with an athletics facility in the Kosovar city ​​of Mitrovica . It is mainly used for soccer games and seats 28,500 spectators.

The stadium was named after the former industrial combine or the Trepča mine northeast of the city. From its construction after the Second World War until the end of the 1990s it was or is still formally the home stadium of FK Trepča . Since then the stadium has been referred to as Stadiumi Olympik Adem Jashari by the Albanian population, and the Trepča Stadium by the Serbian and non-Albanian population. Due to this political situation, FK Trepča is forced to play its home games in neighboring Zvečan , a Serbian-dominated community.

history

The Trepča Stadium was built after the Second World War as a venue for FK Trepča . The stadium had its heyday in the late 1970s during the era of socialist Yugoslavia . For a season it welcomed the best clubs in the Yugoslav first division. In 1978 it was also the venue for the move into the Yugoslav Cup final, which Trepča also achieved surprisingly, as it was one of the smaller clubs in the country. In 1979 it was also the venue for a qualifying game for the 1980 European Championship , where the Yugoslav national soccer team defeated Romania 2-1 in front of around 35,000 spectators.

FK Trepča played their home games in the stadium until the end of the 1990s. With the end of the Kosovo war in 1999, the city was divided into a southern part with Kosovar-Albanian and a northern part with Serbian population. During the war, numerous Serbs and non-Albanians fled to the northern part of the city or were expelled. This was followed on March 17, 2004 by the nationwide pogrom-like March riots against the Serbian and non-Albanian population by extremist Albanians, which increased the division of the city's population structure.

The Trepča Stadium was now in a district dominated by Albanians . So it was no longer possible for the Serbian team, FK Trepča, to play their games in their home stadium. In the same year, the city's Albanians founded the KF Trepça, which practically appropriated the Trepča Stadium and later gave it an Albanian name.

The Trepča Stadium is therefore referred to by part of the Albanian population as Stadiumi Olympik Adem Jashari , named after Adem Jashari , a co-founder and temporary leader of the paramilitary rebel organization UÇK , while the remaining or non-Albanian population continues to call it the Trepča Stadium becomes. Due to this ongoing difficult political situation, FK Trepča is forced to play its home games in the neighboring 3,500-seat stadium in Zvečan , a community inhabited by Serbs, until further notice .

On January 13, 2014, an emergency committee of FIFA allowed Kosovo to play friendly matches against FIFA member associations. However, the hoisting of the national flag, the national anthem and jerseys with the national badge were prohibited. The first international match took place on March 5, 2014 in Mitrovica against Haiti . The game ended 0-0 in front of around 17,000 spectators. The game has been called historic by the media. On September 7, 2014, the selection achieved their first victory, in the Pristina stadium they defeated Oman 1-0. Imran Bunjaku scored the winning goal in the 83rd minute with a penalty.

The Kosovar national football team can now play their home games in the Adem Jashari Stadium and the Fadil Vokrri Stadium in Pristina. UEFA approved the use of the venues. Previously, the team had to compete in the Loro Boriçi Stadium in the Albanian city ​​of Shkodra . In 2019, UEFA decided to revoke the stadium's license as it no longer meets FIFA and UEFA requirements . In May 2020, however, the Kosovar Football Association confirmed that the stadium would be rebuilt and again meet the FIFA and UEFA requirements.

International games

No. date Competition / occasion opponent Result
Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Yugoslavia (1946–1992)
1. October 31, 1979 Qualification for the 1980 European Football Championship RomaniaRomania Romania 2: 1
KosovoKosovo Kosovo (since 2008)
- 5th March 2014 unofficial friendly game HaitiHaiti Haiti 0-0
- May 21, 2014 unofficial friendly game TurkeyTurkey Turkey 1: 6
1. November 13, 2017 Friendly match LatviaLatvia Latvia 4: 3
2. November 14, 2017 Qualification for the U-21 European Football Championship 2019 IsraelIsrael Israel 0: 4
3. March 27, 2018 Qualification for the U-21 European Football Championship 2019 GermanyGermany Germany 0-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bota Sot : http://botasot.info/sporti/278303/perurohet-stadiumi-olimpik-adem-jashari/
  2. ↑ Sportski žurnal : Stadion u Mitrovici spreman da ugosti Haiti (Serbian)
  3. ^ Westdeutsche Zeitung : Kosovo international game: The first time is the most beautiful
  4. ↑ tripadvispor.de: Photo by Mitrovica: The Trepca stadium. Trepca soccer team becomes the champion of Kosovo. (English)
  5. ↑ FIFA Emergency Committee confirms friendly matches involving clubs and associations from Kosovo, FIFA press release. In: FIFA . January 13, 2014, accessed September 14, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: Kosovo in the first international match 0-0 against Haiti , March 5, 2014
  7. ↑ Kosovo in the first international match 0-0 against Haiti. Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 5, 2014, accessed on August 10, 2020 . .
  8. ↑ soccerway.com: Berisha salutes Kosovo fans ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2015 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. , September 8, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / de.soccerway.com
  9. ↑ de Volkskrant : http://www.volkskrant.nl/dossier-jaaroverzicht-2014/de-eerste-officiele-interland-van-kosovo~a3814752/
  10. ↑ Kosovo: UEFA approves first stadium for international matches. In: stadionwelt.de. February 20, 2017. Retrieved September 14, 2018 .
  11. ↑ a b On January 13, 2014, an emergency committee of the FIFA allowed Kosovar clubs and association teams to play international friendly matches against FIFA member associations.