Titscha Stadium
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 Varna , Bulgaria
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| Coordinates | 43 ° 12 '56.6 " N , 27 ° 55' 52.6" E |
| owner | City of Varna |
| operator | Cherno More Varna |
| opening | 1935 |
| Renovations | 1961, 1968, 2008, 2015 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 9,200 seats |
| playing area | 105 m × 68 m |
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The Titscha Stadium ( Bulgarian стадион Тича ) is a football stadium in the Bulgarian city of Varna . It has space for 9,200 spectators and is the home ground of the Cherno More Varna football club .
history
The Titscha Stadium in Varna , a port city and seaside resort in eastern Bulgaria and the third largest city in the country after Sofia and Plovdiv , was built in 1968 and opened in the same year. The construction of the stadium was carried out by hundreds of supporters of Cherno More Varna . This club has been using the Titscha Stadium as a venue for home games since 1935. To date, Bulgarian football champions have been four times , but none of the championships in this stadium was successful, as the last national title so far was from 1938. The national cup competition in Bulgaria has not yet been won. The greatest success in recent years of PFC Cherno More Varna is participation in the UEFA Cup the year 2008/09 , when, after victories over UE Sant Julià of Andorra and Maccabi Netanya from Israel until the third round of the German representatives VfB Stuttgart failed . The European Cup games did not take place in the Titscha Stadium, however, as this was not approved for this competition. That is why Cherno More Varna moved to either the Lasur Stadium in Burgas or the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia for the UEFA Cup matches . That is one of the reasons for the new building.
The Titscha Stadium in Varna can now accommodate 9,200 spectators. In the future there are plans to build a new stadium for Cherno More Varna. The first design with 30,000 seats was reminiscent of the Rheinenergiestadion in Cologne and is to be named Warna Stadium . The project is a public-private partnership . The city provides the building site, the site of the Yuri Gagarin Stadium, which opened in 1950, and the company Chemimport, owner of the Cherno More Varna club, is responsible for the construction as a private partner. The groundbreaking ceremony for Arena took place on September 12, 2008. The new venue is to replace the old one, which is then to be demolished. The project is progressing very slowly. In 2007 the Great Recession began and from 2009 to 2015 construction stopped before it really started. In the meantime, the remains of the stadium have been torn down and excavations have been carried out. The nearby training ground was sold to the Kaufland supermarket chain and a branch was built there. The plans for the stadium construction were then scaled down by the architects in order to reduce costs. The 30,000 seats were reduced to 22,000 seats, which can be expanded by 6,000 seats at Badarf. The planned parking garage with four levels under the stadium was cut in half on two levels. The hotel as well as office space and shops were reduced or completely deleted. In September 2019, after eleven years of construction, the construction site consisted of the unfinished main grandstand and part of the foundation for another tier. The work was interrupted several times and the completion date was postponed year after year. It took a year and a half to complete the foundation. Hardly any workers are seen at work on the construction site.
Web links
- sportcomplexvarna.com: Website of the new stadium (Bulgarian)
- bgclubs.eu: Pictures from the Titscha Stadium (Bulgarian)
- bulgarianproperties.info: information on the new stadium (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.retro-football.bg/sites/default/files/books/futbolna_varna.pdf p.33
- ↑ Varna Stadium (I). In: stadiumdb.com. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Varna Stadium. In: stadiumdb.com. September 10, 2019, accessed February 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Bulgaria: 11 years of construction and this ... In: stadiumdb.com. September 19, 2019, accessed February 10, 2020 .