Stroitel Stadium (Ufa)

Stroitel Stadium
2019 view of the stadium
LocationAleksandra Nevskogo Ulitsa, 17, Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, 450000
Coordinates54°49′02″N 56°05′42″E / 54.81722°N 56.09500°E / 54.81722; 56.09500
Opened1959

Stroitel Stadium (Russian: Стадион Строитель) is a sports stadium in Ufa. It is located north of the centre of the city, off the Aleksandra Nevskogo Ulitsa street in Neftekhimikov (Petrochemists') Park.[1]

The stadium is primarily an Ice speedway venue and has hosted major ice speedway events.[2] It is also used for ice skating and in the summer for association football. Since the closure of the Trud Stadium in Ufa in 2005, it is the only venue that hosts speedway in the city.

History

The stadium opened in 1959 and once hosted motorcycle speedway but changes to the track resulted in it only being used for ice speedway. It was the venue for qualifying rounds of the Speedway World Championship in 1963[3][4] and the qualifying rounds of the Speedway World Team Cup in 1965 and 1967.[5]

Pre-meeting parade for an ice speedway meeting

As an ice speedway venue, the stadium has hosted multiple rounds of the Individual Ice Speedway World Championship from the very first World championship in 1966[6][7] to 2012. It has also held the final of the Individual Ice Speedway European Championship in 2010, 2013, 2016, 2017 and 2019.

Over the last three decades the stadium has required modernisation and plans were drawn up by Mayor Sergey Grekov in November 2021 (as part of the 450th jubilee of Ufa) to modernise the stadium at the cost of 1.7 billion rubles.[1]

Aerial view

Since 2022, the stadium has been resticted to domestic use following the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme ban on Russian motorcycle riders, teams, officials, and competitions, as a result of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[8]

See also

Ufa Speedway

References

  1. ^ a b "Ufa to be prepared for its jubilee for 215bn rubles". Realno Vremya. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  2. ^ "European Individual Ice Speedway Final at Ufa (Russia)". FIM. 12 April 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  3. ^ "1963 World Championship". Metal Speedway. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  4. ^ "1963 World Championship". Speedway.org. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  5. ^ "Speedway World Team Cup". International Speedway. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  6. ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results. Guinness Superlatives. pp. 290–291. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
  7. ^ "2012 World Championship". EIS Speedway. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  8. ^ "FIM Suspends Russian And Belarusian Motorcycle Competitors And Competitions". Full Noise. Retrieved 28 January 2024.