Hristo Botev Stadium (Plovdiv)
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Botev Plovdiv
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The Christo Botev Stadium is a football stadium in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv. It can accommodate 22,000 spectators and serves the club Botev Plovdiv as homestead.
History
The Christo Botev Stadium Plovdiv, with 381,000 inhabitants according to Sofia is the second largest city in Bulgaria, was built in the years 1959 to 1961, after the foundation stone was laid for the construction of the stadium on July 21, 1959. Then took place on 14 May of the year 1961, the opening of the then college stadium. For the first game in the new stadium, the future users of the venue, Botev Plovdiv, and the Romanian club Steaua Bucharest tip met for a friendly match. Since that day the club Botev Plovdiv uses the stadium as the venue for their home games. Botev was able to win twice today, the Bulgarian football championship, with a title win was celebrated in this stadium, namely the year 1967. Moreover succeeded the club also twice to win the Soviet Army Cup. The Cup victory in 1981 is still today's last great success of the club, which currently plays in the third Bulgarian football league, after you got financial problems and started the sporting decline in the 2000s, Represents the largest event in Christo Botev Stadium to However, Plovdiv was not a game of the local association, but the Bulgarian Cup final in 2000. in this game, which took place in Plovdiv only due to the transformation of the national stadium in Sofia, located Levski Sofia secured the Cup victory by 2-0 against FK Neftochimik from Burgas.
The capacity of the Christo Botev Stadium has 22,000 spectator seats today. At the time of opening fit 35,000 spectators into the wide circular designed by the architect Anton Karavelov. The highest number of audience was reached when, on February 27, 1963 Atletico Madrid in the framework of the European Cup of Cup Winners guested in the quarter-finals in Plovdiv. The game ended in a 1-1 draw. However, the second leg at the Estadio Vicente Calderon in Madrid lost Botev 0:4, so you retired. Since then, the capacity was reduced in two renovations in 1993 and 2008 so that the stadium now offers 22,000 spectators and yet is still the seventh largest stadium in Bulgaria. After it was first called College Stadium after its construction, it was renamed later to on the basis of the Bulgarian poet and freedom fighter Hristo Botev in Christo Botev Stadium. The last name of the national poet (1848-1876) is also part of the association's name Botev Plovdiv from.