Maksimir Stadium (official name: "Stadion Maksimir", English: "Maksimir Stadium") is a stadium in the Croatian capital of Zagreb. It takes its name from the neighbourhood of Maksimir. It is primarily the home of Dinamo Zagreb, the top football team in the country. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Telstra Stadium in Sydney, Australia is capable of being converted from a rectangular rugby football field to an oval for cricket and Australian rules football games This article is about the building type. ... Zagreb (pronounced ) is the capital and the largest city of Croatia. ... Stadion Maksimir (Maksimir Stadium) is a football stadium in the Croatian capital of Zagreb. ... Dinamo is one of the most famous and successful Croatian football clubs. ... A player (wearing the red kit) has penetrated the defence (in the white kit) and is taking a shot at goal. ...

The stadium was first opened May 5, 1912. Over its history it has gone through many facelifts, but starting in 1997 it received a major rebuilding that lifted its seating capacity to 38,923.^[1] Many of the Croatian national football team's games are played at Maksimir, which competes with Poljud stadium for the biggest matches. is the 125th day of the year (126th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar). ... Seating capacity refers to the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, either in terms of the space available, or in terms of limitations set by law. ... First international Croatia 4-0 Switzerland (Zagreb, Croatia(Yugoslavia); 2 April 1940) ///Republika Hrvatska///: Croatia 2–1 U.S.A. (Zagreb, Croatia; 17 October 1990) Biggest win Croatia 7–0 Australia (Zagreb, Croatia; 6 June 1998) Croatia 7–0 Andorra (Zagreb, Croatia; 7 October 2006) Biggest defeat Slovakia 4–1... Poljud stadium Poljud is a football stadium in the Croatian city of Split. ...

For this stadium has been developed first interactive ticket buying system called Metroengine. The system enables looking how the game will look like from the desired sector prior to the purchase. This inovative technology can be seen and tested at this site. All this effort was taken for better presentation of Croatia as candidate for UEFA 2012.

There have been plans to further expand the stadium to seat approximately 60,000 spectators, as well as to build a roof, but in 2004 they were temporarily suspended. In 2006, the German firm Alpine presented new plans for Maksimir. The firm will take the stadium for 15 years under concession, in exchange for reconstructing it at the cost of €150 million. Renovation works are to start in winter 2006, with completion planned for 2008. The stadium will have a capacity of over 52,000 seats and a retractable roof. shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

History

On this stadium also took place one famous event from World war 2 . Croatian puppet government under strong nazi influence was implementing the Racial laws against jews, gipsies, serbs and other minorities. On this occasion in july 1941 they summoned 4000 thousands high school boys and girls and demanded that all jews and serbs step out of the crowd to take them away, but it didn't go by the plan becouse first to step out was croatian, then mass all folowed the example and it was imposible for the Ustasi (the croatian nazi militia) to separate 'racialy clean' from 'unclean'. This event was later named 'Akcija stadion', or 'Stadium action'.

Gallery

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Street view of Maksimir stadium Image File history File linksMetadata Maksimir_1. ...

References

1. ^ www.nk-dinamo.hr

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