Lod Municipal Stadium ( he, אצטדיון עירוני לוד, ''Itztadion Ironi Lod'') is a

football stadium Football stadium may refer to: * A stadium used in gridiron football, association football or Australian rules football * A soccer-specific stadium Soccer-specific stadium is a term used mainly in the United States and Canada to refer to a sp ...

in Neot Itzhak neighborhood of Lod,

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. It is currently the home stadium of Hapoel Bnei Lod. The stadium was built in the 1960s to accommodate Lod's football clubs of

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, Maccabi and

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, but fell into disuse and disrepair after the city's major club closed.1984: A Sad Tour of Neglected Lod
Nir Shu'ali, 10 January 2013, nrg.co.il In 2010, the city was granted 10 million

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by The Israeli Sports Betting Council, which was used, in part, to renovate the stadium. The stadium was further renovated ahead of the 2015 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, in which the stadium hosted 4 matches.Lod Municipal Stadium
Host Cities, UEFA Women's Under 19 Championship Israel 2015 Adjacent to the stadium are three pitches, including a synthetic pitch, used by the city's minor teams, Hapoel Lod (which also host matches in the main stadium) and F.C. Tzeirei Lod.

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