Meteor Stadium () is a multi-purpose stadium in

Dnipro Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...

, Ukraine. It is part of the

Sports Complex Meteor Sports Complex Meteor ( uk, Спортивний комплекс Метеор, translit=Sportynvyi kompleks Meteor) is the biggest center of sports and cultural live in Dnipro, Ukraine. The complex is a home to the Olympic and Paralympic teams of ...

and is a home of the Olympic and Paralympic teams of Ukraine with status ''national''.

Overview

It is used for various Olympic sports and

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matches, and for quite some time was the home of

FC Dnipro Football Club Dnipro ( uk, Футбо́льний Клуб «Дніпро́», ) was a Ukrainian football club based in Dnipro. The club was owned by the Privat Group that also owns BC Dnipro and Budivelnyk Kyiv. In 2018 FC Dnipro was forced in ...

. The stadium can hold 24,381 people. It has lighting 1,200

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. The main city club

relocated to Dnipro Stadium (which was built in place of the old Metalurh Stadium) after a long spell at the Meteor in 1966-2008. The stadium also has athletics tracks, a badminton hall with four courts, a wrestling hall, three tennis courts and two weightlifting rooms.

History

The first football match was played on 30 August 1966 against Shinnik Yaroslavl which Dnipro won 3:1. On 15 October 1981, a major tragedy took place after a game of the

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between Dnipro and Spartak Moscow, after which 11 people died during a mass exit from the stadium.Moskalenko, Dmytro.
Mystery of Meteor
'. football.ua. October 25, 2011.

Games of the Ukraine national football team

References

External links

* http://gorod.dp.ua/photo/usergorod/2008/10/20/20962.JPG
Official website

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