Mykolaiv Central City Stadium, Football stadium in Mykolaiv, Ukraine
Mykolaiv Central City Stadium is an open-air football ground whose main pitch measures 104 by 68 metres and dates from 1965. Since 2012 all 16,000 seats are individual plastic ones, and the site also holds an artificial-turf pitch and a training field. It is the home ground of MFK Mykolaiv.
The facility opened in 1965 with a match between a local team and a visiting squad from Moscow. This inaugural game marked the start of its use as a football venue for the region.
The stadium is the home ground of MFK Mykolaiv, and its opening on 26 September 1965 was tied to the Day of Labour Glory of shipbuilders, a civic holiday. The first match, against Moscow's CSKA, ended 0:0. The ground was built by city enterprises whose workers, mostly young people, were assigned to the site in shifts.
The stadium stands in Mykolaiv's city centre, with the main pitch measuring 104 by 68 metres and an artificial-turf field added in 2008. All 16,000 plastic seats are individual, installed in 2012, so spectators watch from fixed places rather than open terraces. Reconstruction begun in 2007 has continued for years, so parts of the grounds may be closed off; check locally before travelling to a match.
The stadium was built on a former rubbish dump by city enterprises that supplied machinery, materials and young workers on a rota; architects from Giprograd led by A. K. Marochinsky designed it, and construction took three years.
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