Meteor Stadium

Meteor Stadium
Location	Dnipro, Ukraine
Coordinates	48°26′08″N 35°0′20″E / 48.43556°N 35.00556°E
Owner	State company "Yuzhmash"
Operator	FC Dnipro
Capacity	24,381 (football); 120 (for VIP); 1038 (covered)
Record attendance	40,000 (1993, Dnipro-Dynamo)
Field size	105 m × 68 m (344 ft × 223 ft)
Surface	Grass (drainage system, heated)
Construction
Opened	1966
Renovated	2001 (latest)
Tenants
	FC Dnipro (1966–2008); Ukraine (2005); FC Dnipro-75 Dnipropetrovsk (2008–2010); FC Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk (2010–2012); FC Illichivets Mariupol (2014–2015); FC Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk (2015–2017)
Website
	Official website

Meteor Stadium (Ukrainian: Стадіон «Метеор») is a multi-purpose stadium in Dnipro, Ukraine. It is part of the Sports Complex Meteor and is a home of the Olympic and Paralympic teams of Ukraine with status national.

Overview

It is used for various Olympic sports and football matches, and for quite some time was the home of FC Dnipro. The stadium can hold 24,381 people. It has lighting 1,200 lux.

The main city club FC Dnipro 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.^[2]

On 15 October 1981, a major tragedy took place after a game of the 1981 Soviet Top League between Dnipro and Spartak Moscow, after which 11 people died during a mass exit from the stadium.^[3]