About
Who and how
Who publishes this guide, where the figures come from, how the sightlines are calculated, and where to write if something is wrong.
This guide is written for the questions that arise with a ticket in hand: the view from a given seat, how to reach the ground, and what admission costs. That is the scope of the site.
What this is
An independent supporters’ guide to Bulgarska Armia Stadium. It is produced by someone who attends matches there, and is not published by the club or by the stadium’s operator.
The official stadium site presents the building. This one is concerned with how it is used from the stand. The two do not compete: the figures here rely on what the club has made public.
What it is not
- It is not an official publication and has no connection with PFC CSKA, with the owner or operator of the stadium, or with any ticketing platform.
- It does not use club marks, crests, official renderings or press photographs. Drawings and diagrams on this site are produced here.
- It does not sell tickets and does not link to ticket sales.
- There is no advertising, no tracking, no mailing list and no registration. Email is used only for photographs and corrections. Typefaces are served from this domain.
- Match footage is played from YouTube via youtube-nocookie.com and is never re-hosted.
What is known about the stadium
Compiled from public sources and last checked on 2026-08-25. Nothing on this page is an original claim — every line states where it came from. Where sources disagree, the disagreement is left in view.
Where the data comes from
Every source is named. If a figure here has no source, it is an estimate, and it is marked as such.
- skyPoint aerial films of the construction, 88 videos the aerial calendar in “The build”
- CSKA Sofia FC (YouTube) official films of the build and of the new ground the club films in “The build”
- stadium.cska.bg official announcements and stated deadlines the dates of announced deadlines; nothing visual from there is re-hosted
- Sofia Urban Mobility Centre routes, stops and timetables for city transport the “Getting there” page
- UEFA, Stadium Infrastructure Regulations stadium requirements by category the framework behind the sightline calculations
How the sightlines are calculated
Nothing at this stadium has been measured by us. Sightline figures are produced by a geometric model of the stand, fed by five values per sector: distance from the pitch to the first row, height of the first row above the pitch, row depth, rise per row, and number of rows.
Those five values for all 4 sectors are held in a single file — src/data/geometry.json — and every figure on the site is computed from them. Nothing is entered a second time by hand.
C-value
The principal figure. It states by how much the line of sight clears the head of the person in front, while looking at the nearest point of the pitch that matters — the touchline from the side sectors, the goal line from the sectors behind the goals.
- D
- horizontal distance from the eyes of the person in front to the point on the pitch
- N
- height of their eyes above pitch level
- R
- rise of one row
- T
- depth of one row
The result is in metres and is shown in millimetres. Nothing is calculated for the first row — there is nobody in front, and the page says so.
The bands
These are rough guides from design practice, not a standard. Nobody is obliged to meet them, and nobody certifies against them.
- 120 mm and up You see the pitch without thinking about the head in front of you.
- 90 – 120 mm An ordinary stand. Nothing gets in your way.
- 60 – 90 mm You notice the person in front, but you can follow the game.
- under 60 mm You watch over a shoulder. You will stand up when play comes to your end.
Where the numbers do not add up
Two tensions in the published figures. Neither is smoothed over — they stand as they are, because a guide that conceals its own gaps is worth less than one that points to them.
- Sector A falls out as the remainder: 2,741 for domestic matches and 2,841 for UEFA. That makes sector A 100 seats LARGER under UEFA, while every other sector shrinks. The figure stands as computed, unsmoothed — most likely it comes from the boxes being counted differently.
- Sector A has 105 seats per row against 182 in sector V, though the two stands are the same length. The difference is the space taken by the boxes, the restaurant and the premium zones.
The margin of error
It is large. Seat counts have been announced, but the dimensions that actually determine the sightlines have not: for all 4 sectors the distance to the first row, the rise per row and the row depth are still marked estimated — plausible for a UEFA category 4 bowl of roughly 18 540 seats, but not measured on this site.
An error of two or three centimetres in the rise per row moves the C-value by some thirty millimetres — enough to cross a whole band. That is why the inputs are shown as well as the result: it is possible to see where the figure comes from, and where not to rely on it.
What the model deliberately leaves out:
- the staggering of seats between rows, which in practice improves the view;
- differences in people’s height;
- railings, posts and the angles of the roof;
- the fact that everyone stands for a goal.
When measured figures arrive for a sector, it is marked measured and the warning is withdrawn. Until then the warning appears wherever a number is shown — not only on this page.
Corrections and removal of content
If something is wrong, write to us. It will be corrected, and the date of the correction recorded. If you hold rights to material published here and believe it should not remain, write to the same address; it will be taken down without argument.
A recommendation, an idea or advice on how to improve the site may be sent to the same address. It is a letter, not a mailing list.