Stadion Varteks is a football stadium in Varaždin, Croatia. It is the home ground of the Croatian Football League club NK Varaždin.
The stadium was built in 1931 as the home ground for a different NK Varaždin team, which overlapped with the current tenant with a similar name until its disbandment in 2015.
Stadion Varteks has undergone several renovations since 1931, and currently has an all-seating capacity of 8,818. It consists of three stands, with the main stand being the only one with a roof.
Since 1993, the Croatia national football team and the Croatia national under-21 football team have occasionally played their home games at the venue. For some of these games, and for some club-level UEFA competitions, rules against advertising of stadium sponsors has seen the generic name Gradski Stadion ("City Stadium") used.
The stadium is located near the Varteks clothing factory, and also features a Varteks fan shop and a café. From 1958 to 2010, the clothing factory was the main sponsor of the original NK Varaždin team, which changed its name to NK Varteks (no relation to the club founded in 2011) during those 52 seasons. Varteks clothing factory general manager Anđelko Herjavec also served as the president of the original NK Varteks, and was a member of the executive board of the Croatian Football Federation. After his death in a traffic accident in 2001, Stadion Varteks was unofficially renamed Stadion Anđelko Herjavec by fans of NK Varteks; this name still occasionally appears in media coverage.
On 31 May 2017, the stadium hosted the 2017 Croatian Football Cup final between Rijeka and Dinamo Zagreb.
International matches
The stadium hosted several international matches of the Croatia national football team.
DateCompetitionCroatia vs.ScoreAttendance26 March 1996Friendly Israel2–03,68425 April 2001Friendly Greece2–29,3902 June 20012002 FIFA World Cup qualifiers San Marino4–06,62021 August 2002Friendly Wales1–14,0002 April 2003Euro 2004 qualifiers Andorra2–08,29018 August 2004Friendly Israel1–08,0007 June 2015Friendly Gibraltar4–07,73711 June 2019Friendly Tunisia1–28,03612 October 20252026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers Gibraltar3–0 7,579
References
External links
Frank Jasperneite page