The Jaskółcze Gniazdo Municipal Stadium or The Swallow's Nest () is a 16,000-capacity

motorcycle speedway Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ...

and association football stadium in the western outskirts of

Tarnów Tarnów () is a city in southeastern Poland with 105,922 inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of 269,000 inhabitants. The city is situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. It is a major rail junction, located on the strategic east– ...

, Poland. The venue is used by the speedway team Unia Tarnów, who compete in the

Team Speedway Polish Championship The Team Speedway Polish Championship ( Polish: ''Drużynowe Mistrzostwa Polski, DMP'') is an annual speedway event held each year in different Polish clubs organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM) since 1948. In 2000, the First Division was r ...

and the Unia Tarnów football team. The pitch measures 104 x 68 metres.

History

The record attendance was set on 26 September 2004, when 25,000 spectators attended the speedway match between Unia Tarnów and Atlas Wrocław. Later that year on 30 December, the facility was renamed the Municipal Stadium. In 2011, the stadium added the prefix Jaskółcze Gniazdo (the Swallow's Nest).

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