Full name | Septemvri Stadium |
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Location | Sofia, Bulgaria |
Coordinates | 42°41′32″N 23°17′16″E / 42.69222°N 23.28778°E |
Owner | DIT Group |
Operator | Septemvri Sofia |
Capacity | 7,000 |
Field size | 105 × 68 |
Surface | Grass |
Construction | |
Broke ground | 1956 |
Built | 1958 (old) 2018 (new) (planned) |
Opened | 1958 (old) 2018 (new) (planned) |
Tenants | |
Septemvri Sofia (1958–1969; 1988–2006) CSKA Sofia (1970–1988) CSKA Sofia Reserves (1981–1984) New Stadium Septemvri Sofia (2018–present) |
Septemvri Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium will holds 7,000.
Septemvri Stadium was opened on 18 March 1958 with a friendly match against PFC Septemvri Sofia and PFC Levski Sofia. The stadium had 25,000 seats.
In 2011 Hristo Stoichkov announced that a new Septemvri Stadium would be build with 15,000 seats and would have the name The Crown of Semtemvri. But the project was cancelled in 2013.
After the tookover of Septemvri by DIT Group in 2015, the new owners would to fund a new stadium. In the biggening of 2017 it was announced that the new Septemvri Stadium building would start in the summer of 2017, if the team get the promotion for the Bulgarian First League.