page_title: Stadion Miejski (Poznań)
section_title: Reconstruction
hierarchical_section_title: Stadion Miejski (Poznań) / Reconstruction
caption_attribution_description: English: Lech Poznan fans in stadium Lech Poznań vs Manchester City FC, 4 November, 2010
context_page_description: The Municipal Stadium in Poznań, commonly called Bulgarian Street Stadium after the road it is situated on, in the past INEA Stadion for sponsorship reasons, is an association football stadium in Poznań, Poland. It has a league capacity of 43,269. The stadium was originally built between 1968 and 1980. From its inauguration in August 1980, Lech Poznań has used the ground as its main venue. It has also been used sporadically by Warta Poznań. The ground is situated on the street ul. Bułgarska in the southwestern part of the city.
  In the years 2003–2010, the stadium underwent a complete reconstruction, including the building of four new fully covered stands. Currently it is the fifth-largest stadium in Poland and third largest in Ekstraklasa. The grand opening after final renovation took place on 20 September 2010, with Sting's Symphonicity Tour concert.
context_section_description: Process of complete reconstruction of the stadium began in mid-2003. The first stage of works was to build completely new construction of north stand in the place dedicated for the fourth stand on the old stadium. North stand “closed down” characteristic U-shaped construction style of the stadium and increased its capacity by an additional 8,124 seats. The stand was opened in March 2004. Almost two years later, the roof construction covering all seats on north stand was built. In the same time the stadium was equipped with an under-soil heating system. Also floodlights masts modernization took place in the same year. In January 2006, construction of stands no. II (South stand) began in place of demolished old stadium’s sections occupied by most fanatics supporters of Lech Poznań. This part of the stadium was traditionally called “Kocioł” (Polish “Boiler”). The construction of first two storeys of this 3-level stand were completed in February 2007, with work on the third one finalized in September 2008. This resulted in increased the entire stand capacity to about 9,000 seats.
  After Poland was chosen as a co-hosting Nation for Euro 2012 the city authorities decided to revise the architectural concept of the stadium and thus larger facility was decided to be built. The stadium capacity increased to about 45,000 seats. According to a new project stands no. I and III (along sidelines) were built as two-level constructions. Both have capacity 13 750 spectators. VIP lounges, media zone, locker rooms, referees rooms and club facilities are located on the stand no. I. Whole seats located on stand no. III are dedicated strictly for football fans. All places on the stadium are seated – folding stadium seats are installed in such a way as to maintain a minimum 12 cm clearance between each other.
  Modernization and expansion project of the stadium was delivered by Modern Construction Systems. In comparison to the earlier architectural concepts, the last one changed the roof construction design. The concept introduced roof as a membrane in natural colors of silk. The whole membrane is divided into equal segments – each of them is 9 meters long and gives the impression of wavy-like shape. The roof forms cohesive whole over stands I, II, and III. Part of the roof over the stand no. II is a movable structure, designed to ensure proper illumination of grass on some part of the pitch. Cubature of the stadium is 1,300,000 m² and total area is 250,000 m². The original architectural concept of stadium modernization from 2002, was finally replaced by concept designed in 2008. Construction work based on this concept took place in years 2008–2012.
  Work on the stands no. I and III started in October 2008 and was completed in September 2010. New model of folding seats was installed on all four stands. They are wider than previous models, so the capacity of the stadium was reduced to 43,000. Originally planned capacity was about 2,000 seats more.
caption: Lech's fans during the match
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