FC Universitatea Cluj - Stadium

Stadium

The first football and athletics stadium in Cluj-Napoca was built between 1908 and 1911 and had a capacity of 1,500. The official inauguration in 1911 was done by organizing a game between a Cluj team and Galatasaray Istanbul. It was the first game in Europe for Galatasaray and the Cluj team won 8-1.

In 1961, new U-shaped stands were built and the capacity of the stadium became 28,000.

In 2000, more than half the stands were declared structurally unsafe for hosting supporters and were therefore closed, leaving the stadium with a capacity of 12-13,000.

In late 2008, the old Ion Moina Stadium was demolished, and building works begun for the Cluj Arena. The last official game on the old stadium was played on 22 November 2008, with Universitatea drawing 0-0 their Liga II game with Mureşul Deva.

During the construction works for the new stadium, Universitatea played the home games in the 2008–09 and 2009–10 Liga II seasons on the Clujana Stadium and the home games in the 2010–11 Liga I season on the Cetate Stadium in Alba Iulia, Gloria Stadium in Bistrița and Gaz Metan Stadium in Mediaș.

On 11 October 2011, the first match was played on the new Cluj Arena stadium, a friendly between Universitatea and the Russian side Kuban Krasnodar, with Kuban winning 4-0. A week later, on 16 October 2011, the first official match was played on the new stadium, with Univesritatea winning 1-0 the Liga I game against FC Braşov.