Pančevo City Stadium

Pančevo City Stadium
Stadium in 2012
Full nameГрадски стадион у Панчеву
Gradski stadion u Pančevu
LocationPančevo, Serbia
Coordinates44°52′13.4″N 20°39′06.5″E / 44.870389°N 20.651806°E / 44.870389; 20.651806[1]
OperatorCity of Pančevo
Capacity4,569[2]
Field size105 x 66 m[2]
SurfaceGrass
ScoreboardLED
Opened1932 (1932)
Tenants
FK Dinamo Pančevo (1945–2012)
Athletics Club Dinamo Pančevo
Rugby Club Dinamo Pančevo

Pančevo City Stadium (Serbian: Градски стадион у Панчеву / Gradski stadion u Pančevu), also known as Dinamo Stadium. is a football stadium in Pančevo, Serbia. Its tenant is FK Dinamo Pančevo. The stadium has the capacity to hold 4,569 spectators.[2][2]

This stadium has been the home of the Pančevo football club FC Dinamo since its founding in 1945. The stadium, or at that time the "football field", was built in 1932. For most of its existence, the stadium, in addition to a natural grass football field, had an athletics track, an auxiliary field and a combined outdoor field for basketball, handball and volleyball.

History

In addition to hosting the football club, when the main pitch could hold up to ten thousand spectators, the stadium was also used by AK Dinamo, the rugby club RK Dinamo and boxing cub BK Dinamo. Due to great interest, a ring was erected on the grassy part of the pitch in the 1960s and a boxing match was held between BK Dinamo and BK Pula when Obrad Sretenović, a member of BK Dinamo, and Mate Parlov, a member of BK Pula, met.[3]

In addition to this boxing spectacle, a football match was held between the Yugoslav national football team and the South Banat national football team as part of preparations for the 1974 World Cup. The match was also broadcast by nacional TV, JRT. Federal coach Miljanić brought the entire national team, but Dragan Džajić did not appear on the field, sitting out the match on the bench. The players for Yugoslavia were Marić, Buljan, Hadžiabdić, Mužinić, Katalinski, Bogićević, Petković, Oblak, Šurjak, Aćimović, Jerković, Pavlović, Peruzović, Dojčinovski, Vladić, Popivoda, Karasi, Bajević. Momčilo Vukotić also appeared as a guest at the match. Yugoslavia won 2:1.

Capacity

Today the stadium has 4,569 seats, of which 2,569 are seated. The northern part of the stadium has 3,969 seats, all 2,569 of which are seated, and that part of the stadium is partially covered, while the southern part of the stadium has 600 standing seats. The stadium is equipped with an LED scoreboard to display the results.[4]

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