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Club: FK Zeljeznicar | Opening: 1953 | Capacity: 13,449 seats<\/p>\n
Stadion Grbavica opened in 1953. In the previous three decades, Zeljeznicar had occupied various grounds, but in the late 1940s they decided to build their own ground.<\/p>\n
The stadium officially opened on 13 September 1953 with a match between Zeljeznicar and Sibenik (4-1).<\/p>\n
The original stadium had an athletics track, but this was removed in a large reconstruction project\u00a0that started in 1968 and took until 1976 to be completed.<\/p>\n
In 1986, a new covered north stand was built, but plans to redo the rest of the stadium in similar style were shelved.<\/p>\n
During the Bosnian War in the 1990s, Stadion Grbavica found itself on the front lines and as a result sustained large damages, which included the burning down of wooden terraces and the mining of the premises. The stadium therefore wasn’t used for football between 1992 and 1996.<\/p>\n
In the early 2000s, Stadion Grbavica could hold about 20,000 spectators, but this was reduced to a little over 10,000 when the stadium got converted into an all-seater. In 2017, a new east stand was opened that could hold a little under 5,000 spectators, which raised capacity again to its current total.<\/p>\n
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