Association football venue

Arena Lublin

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Arena Lublin
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The Arena Lublin, known for sponsorship reasons as the Motor Lublin Arena since February 2025, is a football stadium located in Lublin, Poland. It is the home ground of Motor Lublin. The stadium holds 15,247 people.

History: On 2 September 2011, construction company Budimex signed a contract to undertake and complete the stadium's construction for PLN 136.2 million by September 2013, and the first visuals and work schedule appeared 3–4 weeks from the date of signing the contract. The stadium was designed by the award-winning Estudio Lamela architectural office, which in the early 1990s prepared plans to modernize and enlarge Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid and designed the new Cracovia stadium. The main construction works were planned to start in the spring of 2012, but later the city decided to redesign the facility so as to increase the commercial space for lease. The first shovel on the construction site was driven in December 2012, and the final construction date was June 2014. The opening match was played on 9 October 2014, between Poland U20 and Italy U20, as Poland won 2–1, and Mariusz Stępiński scored the first historic goal at the new stadium. The game was spectated...