Chornomorets Stadium

History

Name of the stadium

• 1935—1938: Stanislav Kosior Stadium
• 1938—1945: Taras Shevchenko Park Stadium
• 1945—1958: Central Stadium Kharchovyk
• 1958: Avanhard Stadium
• 1958—2009: Central Stadium of the Black Sea Shipping Company (alternatively Central Stadium ChMP)
• since 2011: Chornomorets Stadium

Former stadium

The former ChMP stadium was built on the same site in 1935, and it was originally named as Stanislav Kosior Stadium after the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR, Stanislav Kosior. After Stanislav Kosior was repressed in the 1930s, the name was changed to Shevchenko Park Stadium.

After World War II, the stadium was passed to the ownership of the republican Ministry of Food and received name as the Central Stadium Kharchovyk. At the end of the 1950s, it was renamed as Avanhard Stadium after the Ukrainian Sport Society of industrial workers. In 1959, the stadium was renamed to the Central Stadium of the Black Sea Shipping Company or alternatively Central Stadium Chornomorets.

ChMP could hold 34,362 people. It hosted the Ukrainian Super Cup from 2004 until 2007. At the end of 2008, it was closed and, in 2009, it was demolished.

New stadium

Financial crisis

The stadium was a part of a defunct Imexbank assets. On May 26, 2020, the Deposit Guarantee Fund of Ukraine sold at auction the Chornomorets Stadium to the American company "Allrise Capital Inc.", for ₴193.8 million ($7.24 million). Allrise Capital's main owner is Russian expat in America Vladimir Yevseyev. Prosecutor's office against Americans: who will get the Chornomorets stadium, Ukrayinska Pravda (25 August 2020)

In August 2020, the Shevchenko District Court of Kyiv arrested the stadium complex and handed over to the Agency in search and management of assets (Ukrainian). The pretrial investigation began based on a statement of public organization "Olimpik" that owns the football club with the same name. About ten days later it was announced that the same court decided to cancel arrest of the stadium.

Gallery

File:Стадион ЧМП до реконструкции.jpg|Black Sea Shipping Stadium (ChMP) File:Chornomorets Stadium.jpg|ChMP in 2004 File:1936-Stadion large.jpg|Kosior Stadium, 1936 File:Стадион «Черноморец».jpg|View of new stadium with Black Sea in background File:Odessa stadium 4.jpg|Stadium entrance and Imexbank

References

References

1. [http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/55131/ "Surkis says Odesa mayor promised much, did little with respect to Euro 2012"], [[Kyiv Post]] (December 15, 2009)
2. (2023-02-16). "В Одесі дерусифікували фасад стадіону «Чорноморець»". ua-football.com.
3. "Looking back and future prospective in Ukraine". Consulate General of Ukraine in Chicago.
4. "Офіційно: стадіон "Імексбанку" - "Чорноморець" продали з 21-ї спроби".
5. "Одеський стадіон "Чорноморець" з 21-ї спроби знайшов свого покупця! — ФГВФО".
6. (July 2020). "Продажа стадиона Черноморца может сорваться из-за ареста арены".
7. (24 May 2020). "Odesa's Chornomorets stadium sold to U.S. company for US$5 mln".
8. "Стадион "Черноморец" купила небольшая частная американская компания с русским менеджментом, основанная четыре года назад".
9. [https://www.footboom.com/ukrainian/first/1597867273-priobretennyy-amerikancami-stadion-chernomorec-snova-arestovali-novye-podrobnosti.html Acquired by American the Chornomorets Stadium was arrested again, new details (Приобретенный американцами стадион "Черноморец" снова арестовали: новые подробности)]. Footboom. 19 August 2020
10. Artur Malkin. ''[https://www.footboom.com/ukrainian/first/1598529159-sud-reshil-otmenit-arest-stadiona-chernomorec-vernut-iz-upravleniya-arma-amerikanskoy-allrise-capital-inc.html The court decided to cancel arrest of the Chornomorets Stadium, return it from the ARMA administration to the American Allrise Capital Inc (Суд решил отменить арест стадиона "Черноморец", вернуть из управления АРМА американской Allrise Capital Inc)]''. Footboom. 27 August 2020