Shakhtar Stadium (Donetsk)

Central Stadium "Shakhtar"

Location| Voroshylovskyi District, Donetsk, Ukraine
Coordinates| 47°59′40.18″N 37°47′08.69″E﻿ / ﻿47.9944944°N 37.7857472°E﻿ / 47.9944944; 37.7857472
Owner| Shakhtar Donetsk
Capacity| 31,718 (football)
Field size| 105 m × 68 m (344 ft × 223 ft)
Surface| Grass
Construction
Broke ground| Spring 1936
Opened| 5 September 1936; 88 years ago (1936-09-05)
Renovated| 1950, 1966, 1981, 2000
Architect| Georgiy Navrotskiy, S.Severin
Tenants
Shakhtar Donetsk (1936–2004)
Shakhtar Donetsk reserves
Metalurh Donetsk (international games)

Central Stadium Shakhtar (Ukrainian: Центральний стадіон «Шахтар») is a multi-purpose stadium that is located in the Shcherbakov Central Park, in Voroshylovskyi District, Donetsk, Ukraine. The stadium has a capacity of 31,718. Shakhtar Stadium was the primary home ground for Shakhtar Donetsk and a major football arena in Ukraine until the early 2000s.

## Description

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The stadium was built in 1936 specifically for Shakhtar (Stakhanovets) Stalino with the most recent reconstruction in 2000. It is located in the central city's park near a big pond. The park itself is located on a border of Kuibyshevskyi, Leninskyi and Voroshylovskyi districts.

## 1995 explosion

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On 15 October 1995, soon after the start of a football match between Shakhtar and Tavriya, a large explosion killed several people, including the local criminal Akhat Bragin and his security consisting of five men, all of whom died instantly. None of the stadium's 2,000 spectators suffered any injuries, but a buffet waitress was taken to a hospital in critical condition.[1] Due to the explosion the game was interrupted and postponed for two weeks being rescheduled for 31 October 1995.[2] Russian newsmedia informed that Bragin had purchased control of FC Shakhtar Donetsk in 1994; Bragin had survived two previous assassination attempts involving automatic rifles.[1] After the explosion, a special investigative commission was organized, consisting of various agencies including Ministry of Internal Affairs, Security Service of Ukraine, and General Prosecutor Office of Ukraine.[1] The stadium did not function as a sports facility for several years, a local radio market being established there instead.

## Further plans

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In 2010-11, the general director of Shakhtar Serhiy Palkin announced that the stadium would be rebuilt in its original architecture of 1936, however due to the UEFA Euro 2012 and later the 2014 war in Donbas that idea became abandoned.[3]

## Games of the Ukraine national football team

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A Shakhtar match in the stadium seen from a nearby artificial hill Date  | Type  | Host  | Score  | Guest  | Goals  | Attendance

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20 August 2003  | Friendly  |  Ukraine | 0:2  |  Romania | 0:1 Mutu 29' (pen.)
0:2 Mutu 57' |
6 September 2003  | Euro Qual.  |  Ukraine | 0:0  |  Northern Ireland |  | 32,000

## See also

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* Yevhen Shcherban

## References

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1. ^ a b c Kuibyshev, Dmitriy (1995-10-17). "Football club "Shakhtar" was left without president". Kommersant.
2. ^ "Game report of Shakhtar – Tavriya". UAFootball.
3. ^ In Donetsk showed how now looks the Shakhtar Stadium (В Донецке показали, как сейчас выглядит стадион «Шахтер»). Novosti Donbassa. 15 September 2017

## External links

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* Stadium website
* Shakhtar Stadium: photo-evolution (Стадион “Шахтер”: фотоэволюция). Donjetskiy. 16 March 2012

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