CFR Stadium ( ro, Stadionul CFR) is a

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Timișoara ), City of Roses ( ro, Orașul florilor), City of Parks ( ro, Orașul parcurilor) , image_map = Timisoara jud Timis.svg , map_caption = Location in Timiș County , pushpin_map = Romania#Europe , pushpin_ ...

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. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of CFR Timișoara. The stadium holds 7,000 people. It was also the home ground of

Chinezul Timișoara Chinezul Timișoara was a football club that played both in the Romanian and the Hungarian championship during its existence. It was based in Timișoara, Romania (at the time of foundation Temesvár, Austria-Hungary). History The club was establ ...

and

CA Timișoara Clubul Atletic Timișoara was a football club based in Timișoara, western Romania. It was founded in 1902 and dissolved in 1936. History In the Józsefváros neighborhood of Temesvár, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary, on April 26 1902, a ...

, which was named Stadionul Banatul at that time.

History

Inaugurated in 1913, the Banatul Stadium occupied the land of the current stadium until

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. In 1944, the stadium was destroyed by Allied bombings, which also destroyed the neighboring Domnița Elena railway station. A new stadium was rebuilt by CFR employees five years later. It was officially inaugurated on 17 October 1949, on the occasion of a

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between CFR Timisoara and MATEOSz Budapest. Until 1964, in the opening of football games,

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was played here. In 2020, during the

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, the authorities built a modular hospital here, as a section of the Military Hospital, intended exclusively for the treatment of

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patients. In 2021, the stadium hosted an eight-day

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marathon.

References

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