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Vasil Levski National Stadium ((ブルガリア語:Национален стадион „Васил Левски“)), named after Bulgarian national hero and revolutionary Vasil Levski, is the country's second largest stadium. The stadium has 43,230 seats and is located in the centre of Sofia, on the territory of the city's oldest and most famous park - the Borisova gradina. The Bulgaria national football team's home matches and the Bulgarian Cup finals are held at the venue, as well as athletics competitions. It was used as the home venue for Levski Sofia's Champions League games, and is often used for important derbies between the big clubs from Sofia, instead of their own home stadiums. ==History== Vasil Levski National Stadium was officially opened in 1953, extended in 1966 and renovated in 2002. Prior to their demolition by the Communist authorities during the 1940s and 50s, two other stadiums stood on the ground where the current national stadium lies. One of those was Levski Sofia's club stadium, called Levski Field (Bulgarian: ''Igrishte Levski'', completed 1934), and the other - the Yunak Stadium (built 1928), which lay partially to the southwest. The latter used to host national football team matches with its capacity of about 15,000 seats. Levski were compensated for their loss with a place in the suburbs of Sofia where they were allowed to build a new stadium - the present day Georgi Asparuhov. The Vasil Levski stadium was completed in 1953 with an announced capacity of 42 000.〔''Naroden Sport'', Issues 964, 3 July 1953. The stadium did not have individual seating at the time, hence the higher capacity despite the smaller size of the stands.〕 Originally, only the lower tier of stands was built (roughly half the height of the current stands), and, due to the uneven lie of the land, the western end of the pitch and stands were below ground level.〔(V. Levski and Druzhba stadiums (1960s) ), ''Lost Bulgaria''. The Vasil Levski stadium is shown before the construction of the higher tier of stands and the floodlights. Retrieved Nov 2012.〕 The upper tier was built about a decade later, with the current floodlight towers built in the late 1960s. The Vasil Levski stadium was used for athletics competitions immediately after its official opening on 5 July 1953. The first football match played there after its opening was a friendly between Dinamo Sofia and FC Wien and, a month later, it also began being used for league games. The first international was a world cup qualifier on 6 September against Czechoslovakia.〔''Naroden Sport'', Issues 967 & 983, from 13 Jul and 7 Sept 1953. The very first match was actually a friendly between the Bulgarian national side and the visiting French workers' team FSGT, played in April (''Naroden Sport'', Issue 945, 1 May 1953).〕 The stadium offers also judo, artistic gymnastics, basketball, boxing, aerobics, fencing and table tennis halls, as well as a general physical training hall, two conference halls and three restaurants. It hosted the 1957 European basketball championship.〔(Eurobasket History - The 50's )〕 It was the proposed venue for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies in Sofia's bid for the 2014 Winter Olympics. In July 2011 plans were announced to build a new, state of the art 40000-seater national stadium in the Sofia suburbs, but was later scrapped. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vasil Levski National Stadium」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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