Ganja City Stadium, Football stadium in Ganja, Azerbaijan.
Ganja City Stadium is a football ground in Ganja with a project capacity of 15,343 seats and a natural grass pitch. Its area was enlarged to 10 hectares during reconstruction, and the venue is being rebuilt to UEFA's fourth-category standard. The stadium closed for this work in 2023, and President Ilham Aliyev laid its foundation on 9 April 2024.
Built between 1959 and 1963 and commissioned in 1964, the stadium was expanded after Dinamo Kirovabad reached the Soviet top league in 1967. It closed for reconstruction in 2023 under a presidential decree, and President Ilham Aliyev laid its foundation stone on 9 April 2024.
Kapaz PFK and Gəncəbasar play their home matches here, and the stadium is the largest club ground in Azerbaijan. In the 2015/16 Premier League season, 240,650 spectators watched Kapaz's 18 home games, with 20,400 at the 14 February 2016 match against Qarabag. The 2025 CIS Games were held here after reconstruction.
The stadium stands in Ganja, reached from Baku by train in about 4 hours 17 minutes, or by bus. Reconstruction closed the ground in 2023; President Ilham Aliyev laid its new foundation on 9 April 2024, and Kapaz PFK is to play home games there from August 2026.
In the 2015/16 Premier League season, 240,650 spectators attended Kapaz's 18 home games at the stadium. The single-game peak came on 14 February 2016, when 20,400 watched Kapaz play Qarabag in the 21st round.
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