Olympic sports training center Chernihiv Stadium

Olympic sports training center "Chernihiv" (formerly Stadion Yuriya Gagarina) (Ukrainian: Олімпійський навчально-спортивний центр «Чернігів») is a multi-purpose stadium in Chernihiv, Ukraine. The stadium was given status of Olympic preparation and brought under the administration of the Ministry of Youth and Sports. It is located in Tarnovsky's house, in Shevchenko's street 61.

It is currently used mostly for football matches, and is the home of Ukraine national football team (women) and FC Desna Chernihiv. It has a capacity of 12,060 spectators and 5,500 individual plastic seats.

History

The history of Chernihiv Stadium dates back to 1936 for 3,000 spectators in eastern portion of a city park (garden) that exists since 1804. The territory of the city garden was chosen for the construction of the stadium. At the end of the 18th century there was a dacha of the Archbishop of Chernihiv on this territory. At the beginning of the 19th century, namely in 1804, a city garden was formed on the site of the modern stadium.

During World War II, the Chernihiv Stadium was heavily damaged and in the 1950s was completely reconstructed, included stadium walls and two stands for 11,000 spectators. In 1961, it was named after the Russian Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

On 25 May 1964, Gagarin in person attended the stadium. In the mid 1980s, the stadium capacity was increased to 14,000.

In the season 1996–97, was held the first leg of the Ukrainian Amateur Cup, between FC Domobudivnyk Chernihiv and FC Krystal Parkhomivka, ended with the victory of FC Domobudivnyk Chernihiv for 2-0.

In 2005, the reconstruction of the stadium began, which was completed in 2008 with the assistance of the then sponsor of FC "Desna" Oleksiy Savchenko, in particular, plastic seats were installed on the west stand.

In October 2011, the stadium received almost five million hryvnias for renovations.

In the summer of 2016, a large-scale reconstruction of the stadi

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