Saturn Stadium is a

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in Ramenskoye, Moscow Oblast,

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. It is the home ground of third-tier side

FC Saturn Ramenskoye FC Saturn Ramenskoye (russian: Фк Сатурн Ра́менское) is a Russian football club, based in the town of Ramenskoye in Moscow Oblast. It is also sometimes referred to as FC Saturn Moscow Region (russian: Фк Сатурн Моск ...

and has also used by

Torpedo Moscow Football Club Torpedo Moscow (russian: link=no, ФК "Торпедо" Москва, ''FK Torpedo Moskva''), known as Torpedo Moscow, is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow that was founded in 1924 and returned to the Russian Pre ...

. The stadium holds 14,685 and was built in 1999. For the 2013–14 season and the first half of the 2014-15 season, Torpedo played at the Saturn Stadium instead of its home ground as a cost-saving measure amidst financial difficulties. This made Saturn Stadium the first

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stadium built after the

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. Since then, most stadiums in the league are even more modern grounds, built in accordance with

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standards. First-tier football was reportedly supposed to return to Saturn Stadium in 2022 as Torpedo Moscow's

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undergoes a two-year rebuilding project. However, so far the club has opted to use the much larger

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instead.

External links

Stadium at Saturn's website
{{Russia-sports-venue-stub Football venues in Russia FC Saturn Ramenskoye Buildings and structures in Moscow Oblast Sports venues completed in 1999 1999 establishments in Russia