Groupama Arena, Football stadium in Ferencváros district, Budapest, Hungary.
Groupama Arena is a football stadium in the Ferencváros district with about 22,000 seats and modern architecture. It includes corporate spaces, restaurants, and facilities designed for sports events and other entertainment.
Ferencváros played home matches at the Üllői úti Stadion, later named Albert Flórián Stadion, from 1911. That ground was demolished in 2013, and construction of the new stadium began on 28 March 2013. It opened on 10 August 2014 with a match against Chelsea, which Ferencváros lost 2–1.
The Fradi Museum is not inside the stadium: its temporary exhibition opened on 3 October 2013 in the FTC Visitor Centre at Üllői út 129, with a terrace overlooking the construction site. It displayed the club's most famous relics, and the official supporters' shop was also housed there. One hall of the new arena is named after László Kubala, who scored 33 goals in 50 matches for Ferencváros in 1945–1946.
The stadium stands at Üllői út 129, on the site of the old Albert Flórián Stadium, reoriented 90 degrees and closer to Gyáli út. The pitch lies 10 cm below ground level. A 3-metre bronze statue of Ballon d'Or winner Flórián Albert by sculptor Sándor Kligl stands in front of the main entrance.
The stadium's record construction pace meant the club offices had to move out earlier than planned, by late April 2013, to the FTC sports base in Népliget. The steel structure weighs 2,800 tons and was made in Kecskemét, while 25,000 cubic metres of concrete came from Dunaújváros.
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