Thomas D'Alesandro Stadium, known as Kiryat Haim Stadium, is a
multi-purpose stadium
A multi-purpose stadium is a type of stadium designed to be easily used by multiple types of events. While any stadium could potentially host more than one type of sport or event, this concept usually refers to a specific design philosophy tha ...
in
Kiryat Haim,
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 used mostly for
soccer
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
matches and is the home stadium of
Hapoel Haifa's youth teams. It used to be home to the first teams of
Hapoel as well as
Maccabi Haifa, but was replaced by
Kiryat Eliezer Stadium
The Haifa Municipal Stadium ( he, האצטדיון העירוני חיפה, ''Etztadion HaIroni Haifa''), more commonly known as Kiryat Eliezer (), was a multi-use stadium in the Kiryat Eliezer neighborhood of Haifa, Israel. It was mostly used fo ...
in 1955.
The stadium was built with help from the
Jewish community of Baltimore, Maryland and named for the mayor of Baltimore,
Thomas D'Alesandro
Thomas Ludwig John D'Alesandro Jr. (August 1, 1903 – August 23, 1987) was an American politician who served as the 39th mayor of Baltimore from 1947 to 1959. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented in the United States Ho ...
.
External links
Official website of Maccabi HaifaOfficial website of Hapoel Haifa
Football venues in Israel
Multi-purpose stadiums in Israel
Hapoel Haifa F.C.
Jews and Judaism in Baltimore
Jews and Judaism in Haifa
Maccabi Haifa F.C.
Sports venues in Haifa
Kiryat Haim
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