Forex Stadium was a multi-use

stadium A stadium (: stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage completely or partially surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit ...

in Braşov,

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. It was used mostly for

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matches and was the home ground of Tractorul Braşov and Forex Brașov. Forex Stadium had a main stand and a secondary one with a total capacity of 5,000 people. Forex Stadium was opened in 1940 under the name of ''IAR Stadium'', but at the beginnings of the 1950s it was renamed again, now as ''Tractorul Stadium'', after Uzina Tractorul Brașov (UTB), Romania's main tractors factory and the new owner of the ground. Between 1940 and 2003 it was the home ground of

Tractorul Brașov Tractorul Brașov was a football team from Brașov, Brașov County, Romania. History Beginnings Tractorul Brașov was founded in 1927 under the name IAR Brașov (''Industria Aeronautică Română Brașov''; English: Romanian Aeronautical Indust ...

, the in 2003 Tractorul merged with Forex Brașov, the owner of Forex, local businessman Nicolae Țucunel bought the ground for 70k

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, then in 2011 Forex was disbanded, in 2017 the main stand was demolished and three years later the whole stadium was redevolped as a hypermarket.bizbrasov.ro

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Forex The foreign exchange market (forex, FX, or currency market) is a global decentralization, decentralized or Over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter (OTC) Market (economics), market for the trading of currency, currencies. This market det ...

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