Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Football stadium in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Mikheil Meskhi Stadium is a football-specific ground beside Vake Park in Tbilisi, rebuilt from 1999 and opened as a complex in 2003. Its stands hold 27,223 seats, 500 of them under cover, and the site also has a reserve pitch with over 1,000 seats, two dressing-room blocks, a gym and parking.
The first stadium on the site, seating 26,000, was built between 1952 and 1957 to a design by Yuri Kasradze, and 10,400 seats were added in a 1960 reconstruction by architects Temur Abashidze and Anri Kurashvili. The old ground was demolished in 1999 and a new complex built under Otar Vardanashvili, finished in 2001 and opened in 2003 with 27,000 seats, 500 of them covered. The stadium was named after Mikheil Meskhi in 2005.
The stadium was named after Mikheil Meskhi (1937–1991) in 2005, honouring the Georgian international winger. Since September 2011 it has been the home arena of FC Spartak Tskhinvali in the national championship and the David Kipiani Cup.
The stadium sits next to Vake Park in Tbilisi. The main stand holds 27,223 seats, of which 500 are under cover, and a reserve pitch with over 1,000 seats forms part of the complex. Parking is available on site; check which stand your ticket names before arriving.
The stadium sits next to Vake Park on the site of the former Karishkhala stadium. Since September 2011 it has been the home arena of FC Spartak Tskhinvali in the national championship and the Davit Kipiani Cup, and it also hosted an Imagine Dragons concert on 31 August 2022.
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