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matches, and is the home of

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, and formerly

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. The stadium holds 19,978 people and was built in 1967 and renovated in 2004. The stadium hosted a friendly between the USSR and Bulgaria in 1979. Remarkably, the stadium was the base stadium during UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying for the USSR. The stadium hosted two of the four home games of the qualifying campaign with matches against the national teams of Norway and Iceland. Both games gathered crowds of more than 30,000 people. One other game was played in

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and the other one in Moscow. Later, on 15 November 1989, the stadium also hosted a game of the

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against the national team of Turkey. The stadium was one of three Ukrainian-based home stadiums for the USSR. The other stadiums used were Republican stadium in

(12 matches) and Central Stadium of the Black Sea Shipping Company in

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(one match).

Soviet national team results in Simferopol

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