Sheriff Stadium (also known as ''Glavnaya Arena of Complexul Sheriif'') is home to
Sheriff Tiraspol
Fotbal Club Sheriff (russian: ФК Шериф Тирасполь), commonly known as Sheriff Tiraspol or simply Sheriff, is a Moldovan professional football club based in Tiraspol, a city located in the unrecognised breakaway state of Transnis ...
, a football team based in
Tiraspol
Tiraspol or Tirișpolea ( ro, Tiraspol, Moldovan Cyrillic: Тираспол, ; russian: Тира́споль, ; uk, Тирасполь, Tyraspol') is the capital of Transnistria (''de facto''), a breakaway state of Moldova, where it is the ...
, capital of
Transnistria
Transnistria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), is an unrecognised breakaway state that is internationally recognised as a part of Moldova. Transnistria controls most of the narrow strip of land between the Dniester riv ...
breakaway region of
Moldova
Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The unrecognised state of Transnist ...
. It is owned by the local
Sheriff corporation. It has a capacity of 12,746.
It occupies a territory of more than 40 hectares and consists of the main field plus five other fields, training fields, a covered indoor arena for winter use as well as a soccer school for children and on-site residences for the players of ''FC Sheriff''. A five star luxury hotel is under construction.
In June 2022,
UEFA
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; french: Union des associations européennes de football; german: Union der europäischen Fußballverbände) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs foo ...
ordered that no European games would be permitted to be played in Transnistria, as a direct consequence of the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
See also
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Malaya Sportivnaya Arena Malaya Sportivnaya Arena (literally Small Sports Arena) is a multi-use stadium in Tiraspol, Moldova. It is currently used mostly for football matches, and hosts FC Sheriff Tiraspol's reserve team games, as well as some FC Dinamo Bender and FC Tiras ...
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Sheriff (company)
Sheriff (russian: Шериф) is the second-largest company in the unrecognised breakaway state Transnistria. It is based in the city of Tiraspol. Formed in the early 1990s by Viktor Gușan and Ilya Kazmaly, former members of the special services ...
References
External links
Official Stadium website (in Russian, English, Romanian)
Football venues in Moldova
Economy of Transnistria
Football venues in Transnistria
Tiraspol
FC Sheriff Tiraspol
2002 establishments in Moldova
Sports venues completed in 2002
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