Stadion Kantrida
Stadion Kantrida in summer 2013.
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| Former names | Stadio Comunale del Littorio |
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| Location |
 Rijeka, Croatia
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| Coordinates | 45°20′21″N 14°22′51″E / 45.339202°N 14.380959°ECoordinates: 45°20′21″N 14°22′51″E / 45.339202°N 14.380959°E |
| Owner | City of Rijeka |
| Operator | HNK Rijeka |
| Capacity | 12,600 |
| Record attendance | 25,000 (Rijeka v Osijek, 26 May 1999) |
| Field size | 105 x 66m |
| Surface | Grass |
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| Opened | 1913 |
| Renovated | 1925, 1951, 1958, 2018 (planned) |
| Demolished | 2017 (planned) |
| Construction cost | €25 million (est.) |
| Architect | Gino Zavanella |
| Tenants | |
HŠK Victoria (1912–1919) U.S. Fiumana (1926–1945) HNK Rijeka (1946–2015)NK Lokomotiva (2016–) |
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Stadion Kantrida is a football stadium in the Croatian city of Rijeka. It is named after the Kantrida neighbourhood in which it is located, in the western part of the city. It has served as home of the football club HNK Rijeka for most years since 1946. The stadium has a distinctive appearance as it is situated between steep cliffs, a remnant of an old quarry, just north of the stadium and the shore of the Adriatic on its south side.
Since 1990 the venue was occasionally used for Croatia national football team's international fixtures. The national team has never been defeated at Kantrida. The stadium has a seating capacity of 10,261, while also able to accommodate approximately 2,000 additional standing spectators. The stadium is scheduled for major reconstruction over the next several years. A new state-of-the-art stadium will be built at the same location with construction scheduled to commence in 2017.
The location was used as a stone quarry before the first football ground was created on the site in 1911 by HŠK Victoria, a football club based in Sušak (presently part of Rijeka; but at the time a separate town east of the city), and the first football match played at Kantrida was held in 1913, a friendly between Victoria and Građanski Zagreb.
Victoria continued to use the stadium until the end of World War I and the collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918. The city of Rijeka was then first declared part of the Italian Regency of Carnaro (1919–1920), then the Free State of Fiume (1920–1924), before being formally annexed by Kingdom of Italy in 1924, which remained unchanged until the end of World War II. During this period between 1919 and 1945 Victoria's home town of Sušak was located on the other side of the border as it was incorporated into the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, so the club was unable to use the ground.
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