Key facts
Club: Videoton FC | Opening: 1967 | Closing: 2016 | Final capacity: 14,185 seats
History and description
Videoton had already played intermittently at the site of Sostoi Stadion when they in 1963 decided to build a proper ground on the site. Previously they had been playing at a stadium at Berenyi Street.
Construction of Sostoi Stadion started in 1963 and was completed four years later. The stadium officially opened on 30 September 1967 with a friendly versus East-German side Erfurt.
The stadium back then was oval shaped, had an athletics track circling the pitch, and consisted mainly of open terraces, which got further expanded in the mid 1970s.
Sostoi Stadion underwent its next redevelopment in 2002 when the old main stand got demolished and replaced by a new one with corporate facilities, which opened in 2004.
In the 2000s, the stadium was part of several bids of Hungary to host the European Championships, which would have raised capacity to over 30,0000, but all bids failed.
Sostoi Stadion got converted into an all-seater in 2010, reducing capacity to just over 14,000 seats.
Despite the construction of the new main stand, the stadium still proved inadequate for modern day football, and the club therefore decided to build a new stadium in its place. Initially, the main stand would remain standing, but it was later decided to replace that as well.
Demolition started in December 2015, and Videoton moved out to the Pancho Arena. The MOL Arena Sosto opened in 2019.
