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New NK Osijek Stadium
Opus Arena is a Association football, football stadium in Osijek, Croatia, in the city's Retfala district. Its seating capacity of 13,005 makes it the List of football stadiums in Croatia, fourth-largest stadium in Croatia. The stadium is used by NK Osijek and the Croatia national football team for both domestic and international competitions. Built from 2017 to 2023, the stadium was informally known as the "Pampas Stadium", after the name of the neighborhood in which it was built, before securing sponsorship from Hungarian asset management firm Opus Global. It was constructed for local club team NK Osijek as a successor precinct Gradski Vrt Stadium. For UEFA and FIFA competitions, it is known as Stadion NK Osijek, due to limits on corporate sponsorships. The country's national team is slated open its qualifying for UEFA UEFA Euro 2024, Euro 2024 in the stadium in 2023. Financed at an estimated €65 million by NK Osijek, Opus Global and a grant from the Hungarian government, O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UEFA Elite Stadium
UEFA stadium categories are categories for football stadiums laid out in UEFA's Stadium Infrastructure Regulations. Using these regulations, stadiums are rated as category one, two, three, or four (renamed from elite) in ascending ranking order. These categories replaced the previous method of ranking stadiums on one to five star scale in 2006. A stadium must be rated as category four in order to host games in the playoffs of the qualifying stage for the UEFA Champions League, or any game in the main competition. Category four is also required to host any game in the main competition of the UEFA Europa League, UEFA Europa Conference League, UEFA Nations League or the UEFA European Championship final tournament. UEFA does not publish lists of stadiums fulfilling the criteria for any of the categories defined in the UEFA Stadium Infrastructure Regulations. General If a retractable roof is present, its use will be directed by consultation between the UEFA delegate and the main assi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
