Várkert Stadium is a football stadium in
Kisvárda,
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...
. The
UEFA category 3 arena is home to the
association football
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 ...
side
Kisvárda FC
Kisvárda Football Club is a Hungarian football club located in Kisvárda. It currently plays in Nemzeti Bajnokság I. The team's colors are red and white.
History
Kisvárda FC, later known as Várda SE, was founded in 1911 as ''Kisvárdai Spo ...
. The stadium has a capacity of 2,850.
History
The stadium was planned to be built for HUF 120 million in 2014, however step by step it managed to cost taxpayers a lot more. After categorised as an economically significant investment, another HUF 800 million was awarded in 2014, which grew to 1.5 billion and then 2 billion in a short time. In the end a further 473 million HUF was spent on building a heat pipe system from the nearby thermal water complex - making the total investment HUF 2.5 billion - basically 1 million for each spectator seat. A typical example how one politician's dream can make others pay for it.
The first
Nemzeti Bajnokság I
The Nemzeti Bajnokság (, "National Championship"), also known as NB I, is the top level of the Hungarian football league system. The league is officially named OTP Bank Liga after its title sponsor OTP Bank. UEFA currently ranks the league 28th ...
match was played against
Ferencváros on the 4th match day of the
2018–19 Nemzeti Bajnokság I
The 2018–19 Nemzeti Bajnokság I (also known as 2018–19 OTP Bank Liga), also known as NB I, was the 120th season of top-tier football in Hungary. The league was officially named ''OTP Bank Liga'' for sponsorship reasons. Videoton were the def ...
.
The first Magyar Kupa match was played on 27 February 2018 in the
2018–19 Magyar Kupa
The 2018–19 Magyar Kupa (English: ''Hungarian Cup'') was the 79th season of Hungary's annual knock-out cup football competition. MOL Vidi FC won the competition by beating Budapest Honvéd FC in the final held at Groupama Aréna on 25 May 2019 ...
season against Ferencváros. The result was 1-1.
Milestone matches
Gallery
File:Kisvarda vs Debrecen.jpg, Kisvárda host Debrecen on 2 December 2023
References
External links
Magyarfutball.hu
Football venues in Hungary
Kisvárda FC
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