Yuvileiny Stadium, Football stadium in Sumy, Ukraine.
Yuvileiny Stadium is a football ground on Haharina Street in Sumy, inside Kozhedub Park. It has 25,830 plastic seats in two tiers, with the central stand single-tiered, and a roof over 80% of the seats. The pitch measures 105 by 68 metres, and a Videoton screen 3.69 by 5.94 metres stands at the centre of the south stand.
The site held Spartak Stadium, laid out in 1949 and rebuilt in 1968 with 12,000 seats, underground shooting ranges and cinder running tracks. Demolished in the late 1980s for a planned 35,000-seat arena, it stayed empty until architects Volodymyr Bykov and Ivan Lukash designed the present ground. The first pile was driven on 2 September 1999 and the stadium opened on 20 September 2001, before Sumy's 350th anniversary.
The stadium serves as the home ground for FC Viktoriya Sumy and also hosts matches for FC Sumy in regional competitions. Both clubs use this venue regularly for their league games, making it a central gathering place for local football supporters.
The stadium is straightforward to access from outside, with multiple gates and entrances providing clear orientation for visitors. It is advisable to arrive early for larger events and plan visits around regular match days when facilities are fully operational.
The stadium's record attendance of 29,300 was set in 2003 at a First League match between Spartak Sumy and Naftovyk Okhtyrka, and still stands as a First League record. The south stand's scoreboard, a 3.69 × 5.94 m unit by the Hungarian firm Videoton, hangs at its centre, with floodlights by Vatra mounted on the roof.
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