The same plot. Two bowls. Switch the specimen — the photograph and the file both change.
Mark Ahsmann · CC BY-SA 4.0
One ground at a time. The old home first; switch for the new one.
10 Dec 2023
Last official match: 0–1 to Ludogorets, about 18,000 in the ground.
1967
Opened as Narodna Armia. The Ministry of National Defence owned it.
1998
Benches become seats. Capacity falls to 22,015 and stays there to the end.
The park
About 3,800 sq m smaller than the old footprint — 40 decares and 300 trees go back to Borisova Gradina.
Cost
80 – 90 million leva, an estimate reported during construction.
Opening
Announced for September 2026. No date has been officially confirmed.
Press a letter. The old count and the new one belong to that stand alone.
6 417 2 741 −3 676
2 841 under UEFA
The main stand runs to four levels. Bronze and Silver hold seats below; the boxes sit above them.
In Silver the catering is included in the price of the card or ticket. The Platinum terrace carries three television camera platforms, and at the end towards sector B sit the control room and a television studio looking onto the pitch.
4 889 5 440 +551
4 503 under UEFA
Split into a home section and a segregated away section, as UEFA and the Bulgarian federation require.
5 689 4 742 −947
4 640 under UEFA
The long side opposite the main stand. Folding polyethylene seats, meeting UEFA’s fire and strength standards.
5 020 5 617 +597
4 835 under UEFA
This is where the ultras stand. The seats are folding metal — for league matches they go up and the stand watches on its feet.
There are places for disabled supporters in both corners. A lifting system for choreography is tied into the roof structure. In front of the stand sits the “Amphitheatre” — a stepped, freely accessible space recreating the old look of the sector, facing a large video wall on the facade.
