Hatikva Neighborhood Stadium, Soccer stadium in Hatikva Quarter, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Hatikva Neighborhood Stadium is a football ground in Tel Aviv's Hatikva Quarter with two stands, the southern and the western, and eight gates. Its capacity is 2,572: 2,300 seats in the southern-central stand and 270 in a renovated corner of the western stand for visiting fans. The pitch runs south to north, and a 40-square-metre scoreboard stands in the ground.
Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv, founded in 1935, built the ground in 1945; volunteers from the Hatikva Quarter prepared it and the club began using it officially in 1951. After promotion in 1959 the pitch was converted to grass, and between 1965 and 1975 a larger renovation forced the club to play elsewhere. The northern stand was demolished on 8 July 2020, and in July 2021 the city approved a renovation whose cost rose from 7.5 million shekels to about 30 million.
This venue serves as a gathering place for neighborhood teams and youth players from the local area. You can regularly see training groups and smaller competitions that shape the sports life of the community.
The stadium has two stands, south and west, served by eight gates; the 270 seats in the southwest corner of the west stand are set aside for visiting fans, separated from the home crowd. The west stand renovation is still pending, so that side is the least updated part of the ground.
The northern stand was demolished by the Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality on 8 July 2020. In July 2021 the city approved a renovation initially budgeted at 7.5 million shekels, later rising to about 30 million for national-league standards; stage one cost around 8 million and replaced the 2,300 southern seats.
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