Ďolíček Stadium is a

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district

Vršovice Vršovice is a cadastral district of Prague. All of Vršovice lies within the Prague 10 administrative district. Vršovice is located south-east of the city centre. It borders Vinohrady to the north, Nusle to the south-west, Michle to the south and ...

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. It is currently used mostly for

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matches and is the home ground of

Bohemians Praha 1905 Bohemians Praha 1905, commonly known as Bohemka or Bohemians Prague, is a professional football club based in Vršovice, Prague, Czech Republic. The club competes in the Fortuna Liga, the top division in the Czech Republic football league sys ...

. The stadium was opened on 27 March 1932 for a match against

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. The reconstruction of 2003 changed the capacity to 13,388 (3,028 seated). After reconstruction in summer 2007, its capacity was reduced to 9,000 (3,800 seated). Bohemians 1905 were not allowed to keep the stand sector, they changed it into seats, which reduced the capacity further, to 7,500 (all seated). In the

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and 2011–12 seasons, Bohemians played its home matches at

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, and Ďolíček was only used for the Bohemians 1905 "B" team. In 2011, councillors of the city district of

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approved a proposal to purchase the stadium.

Transport

The stadium is served by trams, the local stop immediately south of Ďolíček, formerly known as ''Oblouková'', was renamed ''Bohemians'' in September 2012. Services 7 and 24 serve the stop. Another stop, ''Vršovické náměstí'', north of the site, is served by

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services 4 and 22. The

Praha-Vršovice railway station Praha-Vršovice railway station () is a railway station located in Prague 4, located at the edge of Vršovice and Nusle, which carried 1,826,000 passengers in 2009. The station is located on the main line from Praha hlavní nádraží to Česk� ...

is around ten minutes' walk from the stadium.

References

External links

Information at Bohemians 1905 website

English-language history of the venue
Czech First League venues Football venues in Prague Multi-purpose stadiums in the Czech Republic Bohemians 1905 Sports venues completed in 1932 1932 establishments in Czechoslovakia 20th-century architecture in the Czech Republic {{CzechRepublic-sports-venue-stub