Obolon Arena is a football stadium in the city of

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. It is the home ground of

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club

Obolon Kyiv , Beer-brewers) , founded = 13 June 1992 , ground = Obolon Arena , capacity = 5,100 , chairman = Oleksandr Slobodian , manager = Valeriy Ivashchenko , league = Ukrainian First League , season = 2020–21 , position = Ukrainian First Leagu ...

.Obolon'-Brovar vs. Enerhiya Mykolajiv 0 - 0
Soccerway (14 July 2013) The stadium was used by teams of the top national league since 2002. The stadium has been actively used by the

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as well. Along with Bannikov training complex, it is one of the main alternative stadiums of the team.

History

The stadium was opened in October 2002 with a

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game which saw

FC Obolon Kyiv , Beer-brewers) , founded = 13 June 1992 , ground = Obolon Arena , capacity = 5,100 , chairman = Oleksandr Slobodian , manager = Valeriy Ivashchenko , league = Ukrainian First League , season = 2020–21 , position = Ukrainian First Leagu ...

play against

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. In late 2006, construction began on the northern stand and the work was completed in the summer of 2008. This stand added 3,000 additional seats. The record attendance for a match at the ground is 5,300, set on 3 April 2010 in the match between Obolon and

Shakhtar Donetsk Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk ( uk, Футбольний клуб «Шахтар» Донецьк , short nickname "miners") is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. In 2014, due to the War in Donbass, the club was f ...

. After the main player of the stadium FC Obolon Kyiv dissolved itself in February 2013, the stadium became the playing-ground of the (new) club Obolon Brovar.Obolon-Brewery: new brewery project
(4 March 2013)
FC Obolon-Browar, began full operation
(6 February 2013), Sport.ua

Other users of the stadium

The stadium was the home ground of FC Obolon Kyiv (this club dissolved itself in February 2013"Obolon" refused to brew in the spring part in the First League, but instead in Kyiv there will be a new club
www.liga.net (21 February 2013)); but was also temporarily used by

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(2008). The Ukraine under-21 team hosted an international game against

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on 10 October 2008. The ground was used as a training facility for

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. The stadium served as home ground of

FC Stal Kamianske FC Stal Kamianske ( uk, Сталь Кам'янське) was a professional Ukrainian football club based in Kamianske, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. After being relegated to the Ukrainian First League after the 2017–18 Ukrainian Premier Lea ...

for the 2017-18 Ukrainian Premier League returning UPL games to the stadium since relegation of Obolon in 2012. On 28 July 2020 the club

Desna Chernihiv Football Club Desna Chernihiv ( uk, ФК «Десна» Чернігів) is a Ukrainian football club based in Chernihiv. The original name of the club was "Avanhard" (FC Avanhard Chernihiv) during its first year of existence as part of a re ...

announced that will play its games for the Europa League third qualifying round at Obolon Arena.Sofia Kulai.
Where "Desna" will play its historical for the club European competition matchups: the club's answer (Где "Десна" сыграет исторические для клуба еврокубковые поединки: ответ клуба)
Sport 24 TV. 3 August 2020

Location

The stadium is located in the northern fringes of the city. The closest to the stadium

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railway station is Heroiv Dnipra which requires some 10-15 minutes of "hike" to the stadium. The stadium is located between two of the city's high schools (245 and 170).

External links

Obolon Arena information

How comfortable to attend the UPL games: Obolon-Arena (PFC Stal) (Наскільки комфортно ходити на матчі УПЛ: Оболонь-Арена (ПФК Сталь))
Football 24. 11 May 2018

References

{{Venues of Ukrainian PL 2002 establishments in Ukraine Football venues in Kyiv FC Obolon Kyiv Sports venues in Kyiv Obolonskyi District