Kodeljevo Sports Park is a multi-use stadium

Stadium

A modern stadium is a place or venue for outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.)Pausanias noted that for about half a century the only event...

 in Ljubljana

Ljubljana

Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...

, Slovenia

Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

. It is currently used mostly for 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...

 matches and is the home ground of ND Slovan

ND Slovan

ND Slovan is a Slovenian football club, based in Kodeljevo district in Ljubljana. The team currently plays in the Slovenian third division West.-History:...

. It was built in 1965 and has a capacity of 3,000 (1,500 seated).

It is located in a larger sports complex, that includes multi-use arena, Olympic pool and various sport facilities, mostly designed by Stanko Bloudek

Stanko Bloudek

Stanko Bloudek was a Slovenian aeroplane and automobile designer, a sportsman and a sport inventor, designer, builder and educator.- Biography :...

. The indoor arena is currently used mostly for basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 and handball

Team handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

 matches and is the home ground od KD Slovan

KD Slovan

KK Geoplin Slovan or KD Slovan is a professional basketball team from Slovenia.-History:A beginning of the club is dating back to 1951 when Stane Urek suggested a formation of a basketball club Poljane at one of Ljubljana high schools. The club got its official right to play in April same year...

 and RD Slovan

RD Slovan

RD Slovan is a team handball club from Ljubljana, Slovenia. Currently, it competes in the Slovenian First League of Handball.-Team:2009/10 Team-Domestic:First league 2nd 1991/92, 1995/96Cup finalist in 1991/92, 1995/963rd place at supercup 2009...

. It has a capacity of 1,540.

The whole Sport Park including the stadium was maintained by the Association of Sport Clubs Slovan until 2008, when it came under the surveillance of large city sports institute called Zavod Tivoli.

External links

• Športni park Kodeljevo Športni park Kodeljevo on Football Stadiums of Slovenia