The Viitorul Stadium is a

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Scornicești Scornicești () is a town in Olt County, Romania, with a population of 10,795. The town administers 13 villages (Bălțați, Bircii, Chițeasca, Constantinești, Jitaru, Mărgineni-Slobozia, Mihăilești-Popești, Mogoșești, Negreni, Piscani, R ...

Olt County Olt County () is a county (județ) of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in the Historical regions of Romania, historical regions of Oltenia and Muntenia (the regions are separated by the Olt River, Olt river). The capital city is Slatina, Roma ...

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. It is currently used mostly for

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matches and is the home ground of

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. It is the 24th stadium in the country by capacity. The stadium holds 13,500 people, the capacity being restricted from 18,000 due to advanced level of degradation.

History

The stadium was opened in 1975, with a capacity of 30,000 seats. The facilities of the stadium at the time of construction included: seats at the first stand (first stadium in Romania that had seats), official stand, press rooms, changing rooms, sauna, swimming pool under the second stand, a pitch with water drainage system, living rooms for the cantonments (under the first stand).Stadionul Viitorul Scornicești
stadiumdb.com The stadium was used by the FC Olt Scornicești, football team which was founded in 1973 and represented the village of dictator

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, from which he received support to reach

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, soon became one of the best teams in the Romanian rural area. FC Olt played several seasons in the top-flight, promoting in 1981 and being helped to not relegate. After the fall of the communist regime, the club lost its main support, relegated in 1990 and since then has not promoted above the third tier. Today the first stand has apartments that are used by needy families, while the other stands are not used and they are gradually falling apart. Thus in 1988 the stadium had 25,000 seats, the capacity falling to 18,000 seats, then to 13,500 in 2017.(Foto) Stadionul din Scornicești o ruină (The stadium from Scornicești a ruin
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References

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