Dinamo Arena

• Dinamo Tbilisi
• Georgian national football team
• Georgian Rugby Union Team

The Boris Paitschadse National Stadium (Georgian ბორის პაიჭაძის ეროვნული სტადიონი / Boris Paitschadsis Erownuli Stadioni ) is a football stadium with track and field facility in Tbilisi, Georgia. The National Stadium is the home stadium of the football club Dinamo Tbilisi and the Georgian national football team and the Georgian Rugby Union Team. It can accommodate 54 549 spectators, according to UEFA guidelines on individual seats. The upper echelons of the stadium are covered.

History

It was opened as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin - stadium with a UEFA Cup match against Cardiff City on 29 September 1976. The design was by an architect collective led by Gia Kurdiani. The construction took ten years. The stadium stands on the site of a smaller stadium from the 1930s, which had been demolished for the new building in 1963. Georgia's former Interior Minister Eduard Shevardnadze had the party leadership in Moscow convinced that the international success of Dinamo Tbilisi demanded a bigger stadium.

At the time of opening it was the third largest stadium in the Soviet Union. It was used until 1990 for international matches, the Soviet national football team, the Russian team Spartak Moscow and the Ukrainian team Dynamo Kiev.

Following Georgia's independence, it remained in state ownership. 1995 where he played the German national football team against Georgia before 110,000 spectators. In the same year the stadium was given the name of Georgia 's most popular footballer, Boris Paitschadse. 1996 were replaced in the stands against modern seating 20,000 old wooden seats.

In April 2006, the stadium of the company Dinamo Invest Company for 25 years has been leased. In the summer of the same year it was renovated by the architects Gia and Archil Kurdiani for 10 million U.S. dollars to meet international standards. It now has 53.965 modern single seats and 584 VIP seats, handicapped areas, VIP lounges, 120 press seats, new lawns and careers, and the new floodlights with 1,600 lux, fixed and mobile cameras for international TV broadcasts.