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| Location | Shevchenko Park,Odesa,Ukraine |
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| Coordinates | 46°28′49.2″N30°45′19.5″E / 46.480333°N 30.755417°E /46.480333; 30.755417 |
| Owner | Allrise Capital [uk] |
| Capacity | 34,164 |
| Field size | 105 m × 68 m (344 ft × 223 ft) |
| Surface | Grass |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | September 3, 2008 |
| Built | 2008–2011 |
| Opened | 19 November 2011; 14 years ago (2011-11-19) |
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| FC Chornomorets Odesa (2011–present) FC Seasters (2023–present) | |
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TheChornomorets Stadium (Ukrainian:Стадіон «Чорноморець»,romanized: Stadion «Chornomorets») is a footballstadium built in 2011 inOdesa,Ukraine. The stadium has a capacity of 34,164 and is the home ofFC Chornomorets Odesa andFC Seasters. The inaugural match, between FC Chornomorets Odesa andFC Karpaty Lviv, was played on 19 November 2011, and ended with a 2–2 draw. The first goal was scored byVitaliy Balashov in the 46th minute from a penalty.
The stadium was constructed on the site of the old Soviet multi-useCentral Stadium of the Black Sea Shipping Company (ChMP), which was demolished in 2009. The venue was considered to be one of the stadiums ofUEFA Euro 2012 but failed to be nominated as such.[1]
In February 2023, due to the2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine the facade of the Chornomorets stadium was de-Russified.[2]
The former ChMP stadium was built on the same site in 1935, and it was originally named asStanislav Kosior Stadium after theFirst Secretary of theCommunist Party of theUkrainian SSR,Stanislav Kosior. After Stanislav Kosior was repressed in the 1930s, the name was changed toShevchenko Park Stadium.
AfterWorld War II, the stadium was passed to the ownership of the republican Ministry of Food and received name as theCentral Stadium Kharchovyk. At the end of the 1950s, it was renamed asAvanhard Stadium after the Ukrainian Sport Society of industrial workers. In 1959, the stadium was renamed to the Central Stadium of theBlack Sea Shipping Company or alternativelyCentral Stadium Chornomorets.
ChMP could hold 34,362 people. It hosted theUkrainian Super Cup from 2004 until 2007. At the end of 2008, it was closed and, in 2009, it was demolished.[3]
The stadium was a part of a defunctImexbank assets. On May 26, 2020, theDeposit Guarantee Fund of Ukraine sold at auction the Chornomorets Stadium to the American company"Allrise Capital Inc.", for ₴193.8 million ($7.24 million).[4][5][6][7][8] Allrise Capital's main owner is Russian expat in America Vladimir Yevseyev.[9]
In August 2020, the Shevchenko District Court ofKyiv arrested the stadium complex and handed over to theAgency in search and management of assets (Ukrainian). The pretrial investigation began based on a statement of public organization "Olimpik" that owns the football club with the same name.[10] About ten days later it was announced that the same court decided to cancel arrest of the stadium.[11]
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