Roman Shukhevych Ternopil City Stadium ( uk, Тернопільський міський стадіон імені Романа Шухевича) is a multi-use

stadium A stadium ( : stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand o ...

Ternopil Ternópil ( uk, Тернопіль, Ternopil' ; pl, Tarnopol; yi, טאַרנאָפּל, Tarnopl, or ; he, טארנופול (טַרְנוֹפּוֹל), Tarnopol; german: Tarnopol) is a city in the west of Ukraine. Administratively, Ternopi ...

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

. It is currently used mostly for

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

matches, and is the home of clubs

FC Ternopil FC Ternopil is a Ukrainian amateur football club based in Ternopil, Ukraine. The club was originally created as a second team of FC Nyva Ternopil. After its reformation and return to professional level, the club competed in the Ukrainian Second Le ...

and

FC Nyva Ternopil FC Nyva Ternopil ( uk, Футбольний клуб «Нива» Тернопіль) is a Ukrainian football club from the city of Ternopil, the administrative center of Ternopil Oblast. As of the 2020–21 season, it played in the Ukrainian ...

History

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

) was part of

Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of ...

. 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 FC Avanhard Ternopil was a football club based in Ternopil, Ukrainian SSR. The club played in the Soviet Second League 1960–1971. During that time the club also used to be called ''Budivelnyk''. Its games it played at Ternopilsky Misky Stadion th ...

. In 1983-84, the city adopted a new professional team from neighbouring city of

Berezhany Berezhany ( uk, Бережани, ; pl, Brzeżany; yi, ברעזשאַן, Brezhan; he, בּז'יז'אני/בּז'ז'ני ''Bzhezhani''/''Bzhizhani'') is a city in Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It lies about fr ...

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 is name after

Roman Shukhevych Roman-Taras Yosypovych Shukhevych ( uk, Рома́н-Тарас Йо́сипович Шухе́вич, also known by his pseudonym, Tur and Taras Chuprynka; 30 June 1907 – 5 March 1950), was a Ukrainian nationalist, one of the commanders of Na ...

. 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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