Nakhchivan City Stadium is a
multi-purpose stadium
A multi-purpose stadium is a type of stadium designed to be easily used for multiple types of events. While any stadium could potentially host more than one type of sport or event, this concept usually refers to a design philosophy that stres ...
in
Nakhchivan City
Nakhchivan ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of the eponymous Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, a true exclave of Azerbaijan, located west of Baku. The municipality of Nakhchivan consists of the city of Nakhchivan, the settlement of Əliab ...
,
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a Boundaries between the continents, transcontinental and landlocked country at the boundary of West Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by ...
. It is currently used mostly for
football
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matches and is the home stadium of
Araz PFK
The Aras is a transboundary river in the Caucasus. It rises in eastern Turkey and flows along the borders between Turkey and Armenia, between Turkey and the Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan, between Iran and both Azerbaijan and Armenia, and, fin ...
. The stadium holds 12,800 people. For the stadium's first game, the announced attendance was 4,000.
See also
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List of football stadiums in Azerbaijan
This is a list of football stadiums in Azerbaijan, ranked in descending order of Seating capacity, capacity. The minimum capacity is 1,000.
Existing stadiums
See also
*List of European stadiums by capacity
*2012 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
*UEF ...
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Vugar Abbasov
References
Sport in Azerbaijan
Football venues in Azerbaijan
Multi-purpose stadiums in Azerbaijan
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