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The Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex (also known as Olympic Stadium; Ukrainian: Національний спортивний комплекс "Олімпійський", romanized: Natsionalnyi sportyvnyi kompleks "Olimpiiskyi") is a multi-use sports and recreation facility in Kyiv, Ukraine, located on the slopes of the city's ...
The National Sports Complex Olimpiyskiy, also known as Kiev Olympic Stadium, is the Ukrainian national stadium and home of FC Dynamo Kiev. The Olimpiyskiy Stadium, then still called Republic Stadium MS Krushchov, was originally planned to open on 22 June 1941.
The History of Olympic National Sports Complex in Kyiv, Ukraine stretches back to the start of the 20th century. Located at the foot of city's central Cherepanova Hill in Pechersk Raion it was built following the Russian Civil War in 1923 after Kyiv was finally secured by the Red Army .
The Olympic Stadium (official name is National Sports Complex Olimpiyskiy) is by far the largest stadium in Ukraine. It boasts a capacity of just over 70,000 and plays host to many (but not all) home fixtures of the Ukraine national football team and Dynamo Kiev.
The Olympic National Sports Complex Stadium is the premier sports venue in Ukraine and the sixteenth largest such venue in Europe. Although it is often used by FC Dynamo Kyiv for football matches, it is technically not the football club's home stadium.
The National Sports Complex Olimpiyskiy (also known as the Olympic Stadium) is the national stadium of Ukraine, as well as Dynamo Kiev – the most successful club in Ukraine. Since 2020, Shakhtar Donetsk have also played their home matches at the stadium due to the ongoing war in the Donbas region.
In the opening match, the Kiev team “Rukh” defeated the team of the German military unit D-5, and the stadium itself, by decision of the city mayor, was officially renamed the All-Ukrainian Stadium.
