Stadion Poljud

Stadion Poljud is a multi-use stadium in the Croatian city of Split. The stadium was built in 1979 and is the home venue of the Hajduk Split football club. The venue was built to host the 1979 Mediterranean Games and was opened by the then Yugoslav president, Josip Broz Tito. It had an original capacity of 55,000, increased to 62,000 in the 1980s, before being equipped with seats in the 1990s thus reducing the capacity to 35,000. Poljud Stadium was also the venue for the 1990 European Athletics Championships and the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup, and since 2013, it annually hosts Ultra Europe. Its trademark is an impressive seashell-like design (author: Boris Magaš) with roof structure spanning at 205x47 meters, that has been copied by a large number of world stadiums in the years that followed. In November 2015 the stadium was officially recognized as culture heritage.