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Městský stadion (Ostrava)

track and field stadium in Ostrava

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ3495792 ↗
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Městský stadion v Ostravě-Vítkovicích ('City Stadium in Ostrava-Vítkovice') is a multi-purpose stadium in Vítkovice, district of Ostrava, Czech Republic. Used primarily for football, it is the home stadium of FC Vítkovice and FC Baník Ostrava. It also hosts the annual Golden Spike Ostrava athletics meeting. The stadium holds 15,123 spectators. It hosted the 2018 IAAF Continental Cup.

International matches

Městský stadion has hosted two competitive and two friendly matches of the Czech Republic national football team.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1941-05-30. The account is most persuasive where Městský, stadion and Ostrava can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Městský stadion (Ostrava)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.