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Stadion Miejski
Map
Interactive map of Stadion Miejski
Locationul. Edukacji 7, Tychy, Poland
OwnerCity of Tychy
OperatorTyski Sport S.A.
Capacity15,150
Executive suites
12
SurfaceField (grass)
Record attendance
13,218 (GKS Tychy v Legia Warsaw, 2023)
Field size
105 m × 68 m (344 ft × 223 ft)
Construction
Groundbreaking2013
Built2013–2015
Opened18 July 2015
Cost
128.9 million PLN
ArchitectPerbo-Inwestycje
General contractor
Mostostal Warszawa
Tenants
GKS Tychy

The Stadion Miejski (English: Municipal Stadium) is a football stadium located in Tychy, Poland. It is the home ground of GKS Tychy. Built between 2013 and 2015 at a cost of 128.9 million złoty, the all-seater ground has 15,150 seats and stands on the site of the club's previous stadium in the centre of the city.[1][2] Some sources, including FIFA, have given the capacity as 15,300.[3][4] The stadium is owned by the City of Tychy and is operated by Tyski Sport S.A.[5]

Besides club football, the ground has staged four matches of the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, eight matches of the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup, several home fixtures of the Poland women's national football team and a UEFA Nations League tie between Armenia and Georgia played at a neutral venue.[2][6]

Background and planning

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The stadium replaced an older municipal ground on the same site, which had served the footballers of Tychy for 42 years before it was levelled at the end of 2012 and the beginning of 2013.[2][6] An initial design prepared in 2010 proved unaffordable: the city had hoped to build the ground for about 100 million złoty, but tenders came back at between 164 and 218 million.[1] Rather than abandon the project, the municipality scaled the scheme back substantially, removing roughly 3,000 seats and dropping planned elements such as an underground car park; slightly over 300 parking spaces were retained in the immediate vicinity of the stadium instead.[1]

In the autumn of 2012 Mostostal Warszawa was selected as the preferred bidder, agreeing to deliver the stadium for 128.9 million złoty—approximately €31 million at the time.[1][7] With 15,150 seats, it was expected to be one of the largest and most modern grounds in the Upper Silesian region from 2015 onwards.[1]

Design and facilities

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The architecture of the stadium is the work of Perbo-Inwestycje.[1] The four stands are enclosed by a cantilevered roof that wraps over the edge of the structure to form part of the facade, and the colour scheme—dark tinware on the roof and facades, red walls and black, green and red seats—was chosen to correspond with the coat of arms of GKS Tychy.[1][3]

Unusually for a Polish ground of its era, the stadium avoids extensive perimeter fencing by placing the turnstiles inside the building rather than across an outer forecourt. This allowed commercial units to be let on the ground floor of the south and east stands, while the south-western corner houses conference and banqueting facilities that partly overlook the pitch.[1] The arrangement was noted at the time as making the building unusually accessible to passers-by, who can walk right up to its walls.[8]

The building covers 16,789 m2 and reaches a height of 17 m at the front elevation; the playing area measures 10,000 m2 and there are 5,363 m2 of commercial space and 12 VIP boxes.[9] Of the seats, 847 are designated as VIP places, with a further 100 in ten skyboxes, alongside 150 press seats, 26 spaces for disabled spectators and an away section holding 1,220.[1] There are 317 parking spaces around the ground, 197 of which are available to the general public.[2][9]

The uninsulated cantilever roof and much of the facade are clad in trapezoidal steel sheeting supplied by the Polish manufacturer BP2, using a T50 profile 0.75 mm thick. Because most of the cladding is curved, a lightweight and highly formable material was required; ArcelorMittal's organic-coated Granite HD steel, finished on both sides with a 25 μm polyester coating, was selected for its resistance to weathering.[9]

The venue meets FIFA and UEFA requirements for the staging of European club competition matches,[9] and is classified as a UEFA Category 3 ground, making it eligible to host qualifying matches for the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Conference League, as well as qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship. The club building and the main stand are located on Baziowa Street, while the away supporters' section is situated in the north stand.[10]

The design also allows for concerts and other cultural and artistic events, with seating or standing areas able to be laid out on the pitch itself, and the stadium has additionally been used for trade fairs.[9][2] Neighbouring facilities include an artificial football pitch, an indoor swimming pool and tennis courts.[2]

Construction and opening

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Work began in 2013 following the demolition of the previous ground.[9][11] Construction was completed in the summer of 2015 after about 30 months, with a delay of only three weeks.[7][12]

The stadium was inaugurated on 18 July 2015 with a friendly against the German club 1. FC Köln, a fixture chosen to recall GKS Tychy's only European campaign, which followed their runners-up finish in the Polish championship in 1976. The hosts lost 0–1 before a crowd of 13,000, and the first goal at the new ground was scored by the Japanese player Kazuki Nagasawa.[6][7] Tickets had sold out within a few days in early July, even though GKS had just been relegated to the third tier of Polish football.[7] The stadium was subsequently nominated for StadiumDB.com's Stadium of the Year 2015 award.[8]

Use

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GKS Tychy

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The stadium is the home ground of GKS Tychy.[12] The highest attendance recorded for a competitive GKS Tychy match at the ground is 13,218, set in 2023 in a cup tie against Legia Warsaw.[6][12] The club's own record for a league fixture is 11,489, set on 1 October 2016 against local rivals GKS Katowice, whom Tychy beat 1–0.[2]

The venue is one of the more expensive elements of the city's sports budget. The compensation paid by Tychy to Tyski Sport for operating the stadium was estimated at around 6 million złoty for 2024, up from about 3 million in 2018 and 5.8 million in 2020.[12]

2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

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Tychy was one of six venues used for the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, staging three group matches and one semi-final.[2][9] The semi-final on 27 June 2017 saw England and Germany draw 2–2 after extra time, with goals from Davie Selke and Felix Platte for Germany and Demarai Gray and Tammy Abraham for England; Germany won the resulting penalty shoot-out 4–3 in front of 13,214 spectators.[13][14]

2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup

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The ground was also used for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup, hosting six group-stage matches, one round-of-16 tie and one quarter-final.[2][15]

International matches

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The stadium has regularly hosted the Poland women's national football team. In 2015 Poland beat Slovakia 2–0 there in a FIFA Women's World Cup qualifier before a crowd of more than 6,000, at the time a record attendance for a home match of the Polish women's team; the following year Poland drew 0–0 with Denmark, and in October 2021 they beat Albania 2–0 in another World Cup qualifier.[16][17] A fourth women's international followed on 27 October 2023, when Poland met Serbia in the inaugural edition of the UEFA Women's Nations League.[16]

On 11 October 2020 the stadium staged its first men's UEFA Nations League fixture, between Armenia and Georgia. The match had originally been scheduled for Yerevan, but UEFA ruled that Armenia's home games be moved to neutral territory because of the military conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh; the tie was played behind closed doors and ended in a 2–2 draw.[18][6]

See also

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References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Stadion Miejski Tychy (Stadion GKS-u Tychy)". StadiumDB.com. Retrieved 7 August 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "O Stadionie". GKS Tychy (in Polish). Retrieved 7 August 2026.
  3. 1 2 "Tychy Stadium". FIFA. FIFA. 15 November 2018. Retrieved 7 August 2026.
  4. ↑ "SLX Delivers Sound Quality and Safety for Tychy Municipal Stadium". Front of House Magazine. 30 December 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2025.
  5. ↑ "Stadion Miejski". Tyski Sport (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2015-06-28. Retrieved 2026-07-23.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 "Stadion Miejski w Tychach ma już 10 lat. Wspomnienie rozbiórki starego obiektu". tychy.info (in Polish). 19 July 2025. Retrieved 7 August 2026.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Karpiński, Michał (18 July 2015). "New stadium: No breakthrough for Tychy during opening". StadiumDB.com. Retrieved 7 August 2026.
  8. 1 2 Karpiński, Michał (16 February 2016). "Stadium of the Year 2015: Meet the nominee – Stadion Miejski Tychy". StadiumDB.com. Retrieved 7 August 2026.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Tychy Stadium: a modern sports venue sheathed in Granite® HD". Constructalia. ArcelorMittal. Retrieved 7 August 2026.
  10. ↑ "Stadion Miejski GKS Tychy / Oficjalny serwis internetowy klubu". gkstychy.info (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2015-07-15. Retrieved 2026-07-23.
  11. ↑ Sobieraj, Leszek (2012-12-03). "Stadion Miejski: Mostostal wybuduje | Tychy.pl" (in Polish). Retrieved 2026-07-23.
  12. 1 2 3 4 Ciolczyk Garcia, Miguel (28 December 2023). "Tychy: Grube pieniądze wyłożone na stadion miejski". Stadiony.net (in Polish). Retrieved 7 August 2026.
  13. ↑ "England U21 vs Germany U21". Sky Sports. Retrieved 7 August 2026.
  14. ↑ "England U21s: Aidy Boothroyd's side to face Germany in semi-finals". BBC Sport. 24 June 2017. Retrieved 7 August 2026.
  15. ↑ "Mistrzostwa Świata FIFA U-20 Polska 2019 - Mecze - FIFA.com". FIFA (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2020-08-09. Retrieved 2026-07-23.
  16. 1 2 "Reprezentacja Polski kobiet w Tychach". Tychy – dobre miejsce (in Polish). City of Tychy. 23 October 2023. Retrieved 7 August 2026.
  17. ↑ "Mecz polskiej reprezentacji na Stadionie Miejskim Tychy". Tychy – dobre miejsce (in Polish). City of Tychy. 21 October 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2026.
  18. ↑ "Mecz Ligi Narodów zostanie rozegrany w Tychach". Polsat Sport (in Polish). 6 October 2020. Retrieved 7 August 2026.

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