Evgrapi Shevardnadze Stadium, Football stadium in Lanchkhuti, Georgia.
Evgrapi Shevardnadze Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Lanchkhuti, home of FC Guria Lanchkhuti. Its current capacity is 4,500, after three of four stands were demolished in the 1990s and 3,000 individual seats were installed by 2015.
A first proper pitch was laid out on the site in 1946, replacing a commissariat building that stood there before World War II. Capacity grew from 5,000 to over 10,000 as wooden structures gave way to permanent ones. After Guria reached the top Soviet league, the stadium was rebuilt between 1 January and 2 March 1987, reaching 22,000 seats.
The stadium is named after Evgrapi Shevardnadze, head of the district government during Guria's rise in the 1970s and 1980s and elder brother of Eduard Shevardnadze. In October 2018 a bust of him was unveiled at the stadium in a special ceremony.
The stadium sits in Lanchkhuti, with the pitch and remaining stands open to the weather. Three of the four stands were demolished after the 1990s, and by 2015 only 3,000 individual seats had been installed, so most viewing is on the surviving tribunes. Access is from the town side; the ground is used mainly for FC Guria Lanchkhuti matches.
A bust of Evgrapi Shevardnadze, the district government head and elder brother of Eduard Shevardnadze, was unveiled at a ceremony in October 2018. The stadium bears his name from Guria's rise in the 1970s and 1980s.
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