Abovyan City Stadium is an all-seater

All-seater stadium

An all-seater stadium is a sports stadium in which every spectator has a seat. This is commonplace in football stadiums in nations such as the United Kingdom, Spain, and the Netherlands. Most soccer and American football stadiums in the United States and Canada are all-seaters, as are most baseball...

 football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 stadium in Abovyan

Abovyan

Abovyan is a city in Armenia in the province of Kotayk. It is located 15 km northeast of Yerevan and 36 km southeast of the province centre Hrazdan. In 2009, the estimated population of the city was 46,000, down from 59,000 at the 1989 census...

, Armenia

Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...

. The stadium can serve around 5,500 supporters . The stadium used to be FC Kotayk Abovian's home ground in the Soviet period and after Independence, however as the club was dissolved, the stadium is being used by other teams as a temporary field.

The stadium is also the main venue of the Armenia national rugby union team

Armenia national rugby union team

The Armenian national rugby union team has recently begun playing in the European Nations Cup. The team is unexpectedly strong due to the large Armenian diaspora in France . So the team has drawn many players, coaches, and trainers from this experienced pool...

. In recent years the stadium witnessed several victories achieved by the Armenian rugby team with the most recent over Serbia in 2008 with a result of 25-0.