SKA Stadium is a multi-use stadium in

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, Ukraine. It is currently used mostly for

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matches, and is the home of

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and was previously the home of

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. The stadium holds 23,040 spectators.

Speedway

The venue has hosted

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and the speedway team known as SKA-Speedway Lviv from 1961 to 1966 and again from 1988 to 2010. It also hosted rounds of the

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and the

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. The speedway team SKA Speedway Lviv competed in the

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in 2003 and 2009. They also competed in the

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References

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