Romcomit Stadium was a football stadium in

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, standing on the site now occupied by the

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's Law Department.FOCUS: Naţional, al cincilea stadion demolat în ultimii 75 de ani
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History

The stadium was inaugurated in 1923, being considered at the time a very modern one. It was the stadium of the team with the same name, founded by Ettore Brunelli, that in 1924 merged with ''Triumf'' and the result was Juventus București, the new tenant of the stadium. This was the pitch were the first floodlit matches were played in Romania.REPORTAJ / Stadionul ROMCOMIT, primul cu nocturnă din România
/ref> On 13 and 14 September 1933, Újpest Budapest played friendly matches against CFR București and

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. The floodlit installation, as

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described it in one of his books, was rudimentary and was formed by bulbs pinned by several rows of ropes hanged over the pitch. So at high throws, the ball "got caught" into the dark or it damaged some of the bulbs and the game had to be stopped so that a worker could replace the damaged bulbs. The Romania national football team played two games on this stadium in 1925 against

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(1-2) and

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(6-1). At the beginning of 1934, upon orders from King

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, the stadium was demolished to provide a site for the

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Romcomit, Stadionul 1924 establishments in Romania Defunct football venues in Romania Demolished buildings and structures in Bucharest Greater Romania