Maksimir Stadium

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Maksimir
Maksimir

Full name	Stadion Maksimir
Location	Zagreb, Croatia
Built	1912
Opened	May 5, 1912
Owner
Tenants	Dinamo Zagreb 1987 Summer Universiade Croatian national football team
Capacity	+ 40 000

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 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 over 40 000.^[1] Many of the Croatian national football team's games are played at Maksimir, which competes with Poljud stadium for the biggest matches.

[edit] Renovations

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. As of December 2007, the public was avaiting the presentation of new stadium, and in 2008 city governement presented two potential stadiums, new Maksimir and Vulkan (Volcano) which is supposed to be built on the another location (Kajzerica) in Zagreb and old Maksimir should then be knocked down, but the citizens will choose which one they want on the referendum predicted to be in autumn 2008.