Marshal Józef Piłsudski Stadium

KS Cracovia

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The Józef Piłsudski Stadium is a football stadium in the Polish city of Krakow. It can accommodate 15,114 spectators and serves the KS Cracovia as homestead.

History

The Józef Piłsudski Stadium in Krakow, with about 750,000 inhabitants, the second largest city in Poland, was built in 1911-1912 and inaugurated on 31 March of the same year. For the first game in the new stadium, the future users, Cracovia Kraków and Lwów Pogoń met from the nowadays Ukrainian city of Lviv. Since that day, the stadium is used by the club Cracovia Krakow as the venue for home games. The club was in its history up to five times a Polish football champions. All of these triumphs is lagging a long time, the last championship succeeded in 1948. Currently plays the association, which has since been renamed KS Cracovia, in the Ekstraklasa, the top Polish league.

The capacity of the Józef Piłsudski stadium, which is named after Józef Piłsudski (1867-1935), a Polish military and politicians from Krakow today amounts to 15,114 spectators. The attendance record dates back to 1961, 35,000 people flocked to the stadium as a game. In 2009 extensive renovations took place, in which the Józef Piłsudski Stadium was built. Since it is covered and is awarded by the European Union football as a three - star stadium, so it would be entitled, caps and other major games, including European Cup encounters align.