Stadion Aleksandar Shalamanov () 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 the Slavia district of

Sofia Sofia is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain, in the western part of the country. The city is built west of the Is ...

Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...

named after the football legend

Aleksandar Shalamanov Aleksandar Stefanov Shalamanov (; 4 September 1941 – 25 October 2021) was a football player and professional alpine skier and is known as the only Bulgarian who has participated in the Winter Olympics (as an alpine skier in 1960) and in the F ...

. It is currently used for football matches and is the home ground of the local football club

PFC Slavia Sofia PFC Slavia Sofia 1913 () is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which currently competes in the top tier of the Bulgarian football league system, the First Professional Football League, First League. Slavia's home g ...

. The stadium has a seating capacity of 25,000 and is one of the biggest sport facilities in

. The stadium is part of a multifunctional sport complex, which includes two football training grounds, one multi-purpose indoor hall and an ice-hockey arena with a capacity of 2,000 spectators. Also, as of 2009, the

Bulgaria national under-21 football team The Bulgaria national under-21 football team ()''Mladezhki natsionalen otbor na Balgariya po futbol'', literally ''"Bulgaria national youth football team"''. is considered to be the feeder team for the Bulgaria national football team. This team i ...

plays some of its home matches at this stadium. On 26 October 2021, a day after Slavia's legend

died, the team announced that the stadium would be renamed in his honour and would take the name Aleksandar Shalamanov Stadium.

Old Slavia Stadium

The original home ground of Slavia was located just to the northwest of Ruski Pametnik near the center of Sofia. It was built in the mid-1920s and demolished in the late 1940s.Map of Sofia, 1946
''"Sp. Club Slavia"'' can be seen in square V4 ('В4' in Cyrillic).

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Football venues in Bulgaria Sports venues in Sofia Multi-purpose stadiums in Bulgaria

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