Chernihiv Stadium

Olympic sports training center "Chernihiv" (formerly Yuri Gagarin Stadium)[1] (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 house, in Shevchenko street 61.

Not to be confused with Chernihiv Arena.
Olympic sports training center Chernihiv
Gagarin Stadium
Locationst. Shevchenko, 61, Chernihiv, 14027 Ukraine
Coordinates51°30′6″N 31°19′38″E
Capacity12,060(5,500) (football), individual, plastic, uncovered
Field size105x68
SurfaceGrass
Construction
Opened1936
Renovated1960
Expanded1980s
Tenants
FC Desna Chernihiv
Ukrainian Women's National Team
WFC Lehenda-ShVSM Chernihiv
Desna-2 Chernihiv
Desna-3 Chernihiv
SDYuShOR Desna
Olimpik Donetsk

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

Description

Beside its main arena, the football field, the center houses four sports schools and several sports sections. There are a boxing hall, a running track, a fitness room (weightlifting/gymnastics), a massage room, an electronic scoreboard, a controlled-access entrance. The field has a water sprinkle system and floodlights. The center conducts competitions in athletics (track and field), football, boxing, and weightlifting.

There is a prospective project on reconstructing the center into a sports city "Luchisty" (Radiant) which beside the football stadium (3,000 seats) would include an ice arena (4,000 seats), a fitness-recreational complex (swimming pool, indoor field, and numbers of other sports halls), and a beach club (including a beach stadium, open air fitness rooms and swimming pools, and sauna). The sports complex also would include a hotel complex with 175 rooms.

The stadium houses the Chernihiv boxing club "Ring", sports school "Atlet" specializing in athletics and weightlifting, as well as specialized sports school "Desna" specializing in association football.[2] The Yuri Gagarin Stadium offers a good mix of concessions for supporters. Be prepared to queue as they are very popular with visitors, but there lack some in terms of facilities in particular, in the van of the gadgets they don't accept credit card but only cash for the moment. There are hot food is available from the bbq, and the fryers. There are also cold snacks available.[3]

History

Yuri Gagarin attended the stadium
Desna at the Chernihiv Stadium during the match with Shakhtar Donetsk

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 and met with Andriyan Nikolayev. 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,[4] 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.[5]

In 2008, the stadium was used by the Ukraine for the UEFA Women's Euro 2009 qualifying and for UEFA Women's Euro 2013 qualifying against Denmark, Portugal, Slovakia and Finland.

In 2010 Oleksandr Povorozniuk, after become president of Desna Chernihiv was ready to invest his own funds in the football club: However, the local authorities, despite promises to support the club and complete the Stadium, but at the ended he did nothing.[6]

Reconstruction

In the summer of 2016,[7] a large-scale reconstruction of the stadium began. The vice-president of the club Igor Bazalinsky said that the work on the stadium will be carried out in two stages: “Our plan for the reconstruction of the stadium includes two stages. The first is a training and main field, a hotel and a medical and rehabilitation center, a basement, locker rooms, new high-quality football gates, both for the main field and for the training field. This is what we have planned for this year - to create optimal living conditions and training for our team.

Front of the main Gate of the stadium in Chernihiv

The second stage is the tidying up of the stands, installation of plastic chairs, and the issue of possible covering of the stands. We will put in order the territory of the stadium, a children's town will be installed, under which the playground is ready. We will also decide on the North Stand, we have invited experts who will assess its condition, whether it can be reconstructed or will have to be rebuilt, after which we will make the final decision.

In the first stage, the spare and main fields will be completely replaced. Modern drainage systems, automatic lawn watering systems will be installed on both fields and a new lawn will be laid that will meet all the necessary standards. At the same time, the hotel for athletes is being renovated. ”

The training ground is ready, after the match with Skala, which took place on September 26, Chernihiv footballers returned home, where they held their first full training session on the new field and in mid-May 2017, the stadium completed the laying of the lawn.

Chernihiv City Council officially committed itself after the transfer of the stadium to the municipal property of the city. Gagarin (its official name is SE "Olympic Training and Sports Center" Chernihiv ") to use it for its intended purpose and not to alienate it to private property. Also, to preserve this sports facility as a base for Olympic training and to ensure certification in accordance with the requirements of the International Association of Athletics Federations IAAF. The transfer of such an object is carried out by the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the basis of the consent of the body authorized to manage state property, the decision of the session of the local council and in coordination with the Ministry of Finance, State Property Fund.

"Chernihiv Regional Football Federation" proposed to held the "Winter Championship 2020" tournament and the Women's Football Committee of the Ukrainian Football Association (UAF) accepted the proposal. They will be held in Gagarin Stadium on November 17–21, 2020.[8]

On 21 March 2021, Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, visited the training center, after his meeting with Vladyslav Atroshenko, the mayor of Chernihiv.[9]

New Tenant

In April 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine, Olimpik Donetsk decided to play away the home matches and they opted to play in the Stadion Yuriya Gagarina.[10] From August 2021, the stadium started to receive 3087 and 3587 people attending the home match of Desna Chernihiv, considered a small success and miracle after the epidemy in the first six games of the season.[11][12][13]

In February 2022, Volodymyr Levin the president of Desna Chernihiv, after he made public is candidacy for the Servant of the People in the 206th constituency election, he said that his task is to build and enlarge the Yuri Gagarin Stadium in Chernihiv.[14]

On 12 April 2022 Ukraine women's national football team will play again in the stadium against Hungary for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification in the UEFA Group B.[15]

Damage / Destruction

On 6 March 2022, during the Siege of Chernihiv during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine the stadium started to be damaged in the part of the stands near the Ultras Desna supporters' curve on the top.[16] On or about 10-11 March 2022 the statium was heavily damaged, possibly due to the point of destruction, by Russian forces as part of their war of irredentist aggression against Ukraine[17][18][19][20][21]After the shelling, the arena turned into ruins, but a lot of equipment remained inside, but looters robbed the Desna home arena, which had been bombed by Russian occupiers the day before. The looters took advantage of the situation by snatching TVs, rehabilitation devices and other things, the Bombardier YouTube channel reported. The video also shows the office of Desna head coach Oleksandr Ryabokon - a funnel 3-4 meters deep can be seen from the window.[22][23] On 13 April The Chernihiv City Council reported that hundreds of city residents, along with SES employees and SES employees began to tidy up the stadium, the process was managed by rescuers from the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Chernihiv Oblast. Employees of the sports complex and FC Desna, fans and concerned residents of the city help them in this.[24] On 14 April 2022, The Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine Oleksandr Tkachenko held talks with the Minister of State for Culture and Mass Media of the Office of the Federal Chancellor Claudia Roth. As a result of the conversation, it became known that Germany and Borussia Dortmund are ready to help rebuild the stadium in Chernihiv destroyed by the Russian occupation forces.[25][26][27] On 16 April 2022, A football match took place at the Gagarin Stadium in Chernihiv, the first match under the personal supervision of the stadium director took place on the cleaned field of Gagarin Stadium! The Sonechko team won 2-0.[28]This was announced by the head of the Chernihiv regional military administration Vyacheslav Chaus, that a 500-kilogram air bombwas found at the Gagarin Stadium, where the Chernihiv Olympic Training and Sports Center destroyed by the occupiers in Chernihiv As specified in the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service in the region, previously, the ammunition was found under the rubble, although several times before the stadium was held and even children played football. Pyrotechnicians will take the ammunition out of the city in a special car and neutralize it there.[29][30]

Main Uses

Transport connections
  • There are many connection to the stadium from Krasna Square that stop just beside the stadium.
  • There are buses from the main Chernihiv–Ovruch railway train station or taxi just outside the station.

Important Matches

Ukraine women's national team

Since 2008 the Ukraine women's national football team, started to use the stadium also for UEFA Women's Euro qualify stages.

Date Time Team #1 Result Team #2 Round Attendance Source
22 June 200818:00 CEST Ukraine1-0 DenmarkUEFA Women's Euro 2009 qualifying[31]
27 September 200818:00 CEST Ukraine1–1 PortugalUEFA Women's Euro 2009 qualifying[32]
22 October 201115:00 CEST Ukraine0-0 SlovakiaUEFA Women's Euro 2013 qualifying3,200[33]
16 June 201217:00 CEST Ukraine1-2 FinlandUEFA Women's Euro 2013 qualifying1,100[34]
12 April 202317:00 CEST Ukrainex-x HungaryUEFA Women's Euro 2023 qualifying

Ukrainian Amateur Cup

In 1997 the first leg of the Final of Ukrainian Amateur Cup was held between FC Domobudivnyk Chernihiv and FC Krystal Parkhomivka, ended with the victory of FC Domobudivnyk Chernihiv for 2–0 in the season 1996–97.

Date Time Team #1 Result Team #2 Competition Season
17 September 199218:00 FC Domobudivnyk Chernihiv1–1 FC Krystal ParkhomivkaUkrainian Amateur Cup1996–97

See also

References
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