The National Stadium of Vyronas is located in the town of

Vyronas Vyronas () is a suburban town and a municipality in the southeastern part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. The town is named after George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, the famous English poet and writer, who is a national hero of Greece. ...

, located east of

Athens Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southe ...

, at the foot of Mount Imittos, only 3 km away from Athens city proper. The stadium is next to the

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many death, dead people are burial, buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek ...

, in the end of Vyronas. The stadium was created in an old quarry, so it is also known as the "''damaria''", which means quarry. It was built in 1990 and belongs to the Municipality of Vyronas. It is the home of

Athinaikos Athinaikos A.C. (, full name Athinaikos Athletic Club) is a Greek multisport-club, founded in 1917. It is based in Vyronas, a suburb east of Athens. Athinaikos has football, basketball, and handball teams. Its achievements comprise Panhellenic ch ...

. The record attendance is 5,803 for a match between Athinaikos and Panathinaikos in 1991. The current

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is 4,340.

External links

Stadium website
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