KAMAZ Stadium, Soccer stadium in Naberezhnye Chelny, Russia
KAMAZ Stadium is a football arena in Naberezhnye Chelny with artificial turf warmed by an underground heating system and seating for about 6,000 spectators. Modern infrastructure includes lighting systems, video surveillance, and a three-story administrative building.
A football pitch was laid out in 1973 in the Grenada park, and the first western stand for 3,000 spectators followed in 1977. The first official match as a professional club, Torpedo against Metallurg Magnitogorsk, drew 5,500 on 23 August 1988. After the 2015 reconstruction, which replaced all stands with metal structures, the stadium reopened on 12 March 2016 with a KAMAZ vs SKA-Energiya match.
The stadium is home to FC KAMAZ and becomes a gathering place where fans from across the region come to cheer for their team. Matchdays bring the community together for shared moments throughout the football season.
The stadium stands in the Grenada park area of Naberezhnye Chelny, with the pitch running 105 by 68 metres and the stands set three metres back from the touchline. There are no running tracks, but the first five rows have their view of the pitch partly blocked by the coaches' and substitutes' benches. The adjacent Pobeda indoor football hall opened in 2020.
In 2017 the club announced on its website that the stadium would be renamed "Bely Medved Arena" for a cup match against Neftekhimik, then retracted it as a publicity stunt. The name never changed. The 2015 rebuild also left part of the old west stand standing to house the pitch heating and irrigation control unit.
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