Meteor Stadium

This article is about a stadium in Dnipropetrovsk. For stadium in Russia, see Meteor Stadium (Zhukovsky).

Meteor Stadium

Location	Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
Coordinates
Owner	State company "Yuzhmash"
Operator	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Capacity	24,381 (football) 120 (for VIP) 1038 (covered)
Record attendance	40,000 (1993, Dnipro-Dynamo)
Field size	105m by 68m
Surface	Grass (drainage system, heated)
Construction
Opened	1966
Renovated	2001 (latest)
Tenants
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (1966-2008) Ukraine (2005) FC Dnipro-75 Dnipropetrovsk (2008-2010) FC Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk (2010-2012) FC Illichivets Mariupol (2014-15) FC Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk (2015-16)
Website
Official website

Stadium Meteor is a multi-purpose stadium in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. It is part of the Sports Complex Meteor and is a home of the Olympic and Paralympic teams of Ukraine with status national.

Overview

It is used for various Olympic sports and football matches, and for quite some time was the home of FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. The stadium can hold 24,381 people. It has lighting 1,200 lux.

The main city club Dnipro relocated to Dnipro Stadium (which was built in place of the old Metalurh Stadium) after a long spell at the Meteor in 1966-2008.

The stadium also has athletics tracks, a badminton hall with four courts, a wrestling hall, three tennis courts and two weightlifting rooms.

History

The first football match was played on August 30, 1966 against Shinnik Yaroslavl which Dnipro won 3:1.

On October 15, 1981 a major tragedy took place after a game of the 1981 Soviet Top League between Dnipro and Spartak Moscow, after which 11 people died during a mass exit from the stadium.

External links

• http://gorod.dp.ua/photo/usergorod/2008/10/20/20962.JPG
• Official website
• Main stadiums of Dnipropetrovsk. Forum of Dnipropetrovsk preservation.