Ukraina Stadium
- FK Lviv
- Games Karpaty Lviv of (up to 2011)
The stadium Ukraine Corporation (Ukrainian Стадіон Україна ) is a stadium in the Ukrainian city of Lviv. It can accommodate 28,051 spectators and served the club Karpaty Lviv to move to the Arena Lviv as homestead.
The Ukraine Corporation Stadium in Lviv ( Ukrainian: Lviv ) was built in 1963 and opened on 18 April of the same year. For the first game in the new stadium, the future users, Karpaty Lviv, and VMFD Zalgiris Vilnius met for a friendly match, which the guest from Vilnius 1-0 could decide for themselves. Since that day, the Ukraijna stadium is used by the Ukrainian club Karpaty Lviv for home games. The biggest success in club history of Karpaty was winning the cup competition of the Soviet Union in 1969. Moreover, the club failed to qualify in the season 2010/11 as a surprise to the group stage of the Europa League after they had turned in qualifying Galatasaray. There Lviv met Borussia Dortmund, Sevilla FC and Paris Saint Germain. In the Ukrainian championship of the club currently playing in the top league, the Premjer - Liha.
The stadium can accommodate 28,051 Ukrajina today viewers. In Soviet times, it was at times even a capacity of 40,000 seats, because at that time the safety was not as strict as they are today. A record crowd was achieved when 1971 Dynamo Kiev came to Lviv and 41,700 spectators flocked to the Ukraine Corporation Stadium. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early nineties, the stadium western European standards was adjusted and the capacity reduced to 28,051 spectators still valid today. In addition, it was renamed at this time in Ukraine Corporation Stadium, after the state Ukraine was founded shortly before. Until then, the sports complex Druzhba Stadium was called ( Дружба, Stadion der Freundschaft ). Karpaty Lviv in late 2011 moved to the built for the European Football Championship in Ukraine and Poland in Lviv Arena. The FK Lviv among others uses it now next to the Lafort Arena as the home stadium.