Dnipro-Arena
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
- Games of the Ukrainian national football team
- Ukrainian Cup Final 2009
The Dniprostadion (Ukrainian Дніпро ( стадіон ) ) is the club's football stadium of the Ukrainian football club Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in the city of Dnipropetrovsk. Before they played in the old stadium Meteor of 1966.
History
Designed by the architectural firm J. Serjogin and the German construction company Hochtief built stadium with 31 003 covered seats was opened on 14 September 2008 in the presence of the then President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko. Construction began on 1 April 2005 and the cost of the new building amounted to € 40 million. The first game in the stadium made two traditional teams Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and Spartak Moscow of. In the first official match on 29 September 2008 Dnipro received before 27,000 spectators, the team of Metalurh Zaporizhia. Dnipropetrovsk lost the league match with 1:2.
In addition to the VIP boxes with 293 seats and 550 business seats have been set up in the stadium. The five-storey main building houses a large restaurant with about 600 seats; added two banquet rooms with kitchen facilities. For journalists, there are 219 jobs. The playing field has a soil heating and irrigation system. The new stadium was planned as one of the venues for the 2012 European Football Championship. It should be played in the stadium three group games, which, however, was replaced due to the low capacity against the Metalist Stadium in Kharkiv, with around 41,000 seats.
The company Hochtief complaining in the summer of 2013 that eleven million euros had not yet been paid by the construction cost of the stadium. The financial claims against the club is now therefore wished to enforce by legal means. During a training camp in July 2013 in Bad Erlach Austria in Lower Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk has therefore been examined by a bailiff with a firing decision ..
Events
So far, the Ukrainian national football team played twice in the new stadium of Dnipropetrovsk. This led to the first victory of the Ukrainians on the English national team.
On 31 May 2009, the venue was the scene of the Ukrainian Cup final between Vorskla Poltava and FC Shakhtar Donetsk (1-0 ).