Roman Shukhevych Ternopil City Stadium () is a multi-use

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Ternopil Ternopil, known until 1944 mostly as Tarnopol, is a city in western Ukraine, located on the banks of the Seret River. Ternopil is one of the major cities of Western Ukraine and the historical regions of Galicia and Podolia. The populatio ...

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. It is currently used mostly for

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matches, and is the home of clubs

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and

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History

The stadium is mentioned as a sports field "Kolo parku" (Near the park) in 1909 when Tarnopol (today

) was part of

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. It was a home to local Polish club Kresy and Ukrainian team of Podillya Sports Society. In Soviet times it was known as ''Avanhard Stadium'' and belonged to another football team FC Avanhard Ternopil. In 1983-84, the city adopted a new professional team from neighbouring city of

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and almost completely rebuilt the stadium. In 2021, the stadium is set to host its first Ukrainian Cup Final and first major competition final in the city overall.Officially. UAF Executive Committee approved Ternopil as the venue for Ukrainian Cup Final 2020/2021

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. 29 May 2020. The Ukrainian Cup Final at the stadium originally was planned to take place in 2019–20 season on 13 May 2020, but was moved to the next year due to

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. On March 5, 2021, at the session of the Ternopil City Council, the stadium was named after Nazi collaborator

Roman Shukhevych Roman-Taras Osypovych Shukhevych (, also known by his pseudonym, Tur and Taras Chuprynka; 30 June 1907 – 5 March 1950) was a Ukrainian nationalism, Ukrainian nationalist and a military leader of the nationalist Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) ...

. On March 10 the Simon Wiesenthal Centre urged in a letter to Ternopil mayor Serhiy Nadal and the local city council to reconsider this "unfortunate and totally outrageous decision". The

however has not adopted the new stadium's name and refers to it by its previous name.The Ukrainian Cup: there were disclosed start time and place of holding semifinals games (КУБОК УКРАЇНИ: ВІДОМІ ЧАС ПОЧАТКУ ТА МІСЦЕ ПРОВЕДЕННЯ МАТЧІВ 1/2 ФІНАЛУ)

. 8 April 2021 The stadium holds 15,150 spectators after the reconstruction in 2011. The stadium is located on the Bandera memorial street in the "Old Park" in the city of

. There are plenty of access to the stadium with the public transportation. The entrance fee varies between 15–25 hryven, depending on the luxury conditions. The director of the stadium is Yaroslav Kyrylovych Kolisnyk.

Gallery

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References

External links

Official website

Ternopilskyi Miskyi Stadion imeni Romana Shukhevycha

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