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Koševo City Stadium (Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: Gradski stadion Koševo / Градски стадион Кошево),[1] also Koševo Olympic Stadium or Stadium Asim Ferhatović - Hase[4][5] (Stadion Asim Ferhatović Hase / Стадион Асим Ферхатовић Хасе) is a multi-purpose stadium located in the Koševo neighborhood of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Its official name is Olimpijski stadion Koševo – Asim Ferhatović-Hase. Stadium is opened by the city, and leased on longterm basis by football club FK Sarajevo.[3] The club proposed the new name for its sporting and football events, in honor to its former footballer and club's legend, Asim Ferhatović - Hase. It hosted the opening ceremony of the 1984 Winter Olympics.

Asim Ferhatović Hase Stadium[1]

Olimpijski stadion Koševo - Asim Ferhatović-Hase stadium
UEFA Category 2 Stadium
Location	Betanija, Centar, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Coordinates	43°52′26″N 18°24′31″E
Owner	Sarajevo City Council long-term leased to FK Sarajevo
Operator	FK Sarajevo[2]
Capacity	34,500[3]
Field size	105 x 68 m (114.8 x 74.4 yd)
Surface	Grass
Construction
Broke ground	1946
Opened	1947
Renovated	1984 1996
Expanded	1984
Tenants
FK Sarajevo (1947–present) Yugoslavia (1954–1989) FK Željezničar (1968–1976) Bosnia and Herzegovina (1996–present)

Construction

The stadium was opened in the year 1947. In 1984, it was reconstructed for the 1984 Winter Olympics, and is therefore often called Olympic Stadium. In July 2004, FK Sarajevo proposed the new name for sporting and football events, in honor to its former player and club's legend from the 1960s, Asim Ferhatović - Hase.

Today, the total capacity of Koševo is 34,500 seat, and up to 70,000 for musical and various public events, such as U2's concert as part of their PopMart Tour in 1997 and Dino Merlin's Burek tour in 2004 and Hotel Nacional in 2015, or hosting of papal pastoral visitations by Pope John Paul II between 12–13 April 1997 and Pope Francis on 6 June 2015. For a long time it was also the home stadium of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team.

History

Construction works started in 1947. The stadium was literally buried into a local hill thus merging with its natural surroundings. In 1950, a pitch and a tartan track were also added. The first international football match, between Yugoslavia and Turkey, was played in 1954.

In 1966, the stadium hosted an athletic championship for the Balkans. It was renovated for that occasion. A new administration building was built, so were the new locker rooms and a restaurant. A modern scoreboard and new lighting were also provided.

The stadium was renovated for the third time after the Bosnian War, in 1998. By adding the chairs on every stand the seating capacity of the stadium was reduced to 34,500.

Throughout its football history, the stadium was usually a home ground for FK Sarajevo's and FK Željezničar's international matches. The Sarajevo audience witnessed many great matches against Europe's finest clubs such as Manchester United, Dynamo Kyiv, Derby County, Basel, Hamburger SV, Newcastle United, Celtic etc.

The stadium's largest attendance was recorded in a 1981–82 Yugoslav First League match between Sarajevo and Željezničar. Allegedly, up to 60,000 people attended the game, though the exact number was never officially published.

In April 2021, the stadium was leased to FK Sarajevo for operating the stadium for the next 30 to 45 years, making the stadium FK Sarajevo's de facto property.[2]

1984 Winter Olympics

On 7 February 1984, the Asim Ferhatović Hase stadium hosted the opening ceremonies of the 1984 Winter Olympics for which it was thoroughly renovated and expanded. About 50,000 people attended the ceremonies. The west stand held 18,500 seating places at that time.[6]

Notable events

International Football Matches

Date	Home Team	Result	Away Team	Competition
17 October 1954	Yugoslavia	5-1	Turkey	Friendly
8 April 1970	Yugoslavia	1-1	Austria	Friendly
22 September 1971	Yugoslavia	4-0	Mexico	Friendly
22 March 1980	Yugoslavia	2-1	Uruguay	Friendly
1 June 1983	Yugoslavia	1-0	Romania	Friendly
23 April 1985	Yugoslavia	0-0	France	1986 FIFA World Cup qualifying
11 October 1989	Yugoslavia	1-0	Norway	1990 FIFA World Cup qualifying
6 November 1996	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2-1	Italy	Friendly
2 April 1997	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0-1	Greece	1998 FIFA World Cup qualifying
20 August 1997	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3-0	Denmark	1998 FIFA World Cup qualifying
10 September 1997	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1-0	Slovenia	1998 FIFA World Cup qualifying
12 August 1998	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1-0	Faroe Islands	Euro 2000 qualifying
5 September 1998	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1-1	Estonia	Euro 2000 qualifying
10 October 1998	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1-3	Czech Republic	Euro 2000 qualifying
5 June 1999	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2-0	Lithuania	Euro 2000 qualifying
4 September 1999	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1-2	Scotland	Euro 2000 qualifying
25 April 2000	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0-1	FIFA XI	Friendly
16 August 2000	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2-0	Turkey	Friendly
2 September 2000	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1-2	Spain	2002 FIFA World Cup qualifying
24 March 2001	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1-1	Austria	2002 FIFA World Cup qualifying
15 August 2001	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2-0	Malta	Friendly
1 September 2001	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0-0	Israel	2002 FIFA World Cup qualifying
21 August 2002	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0-2	FR Yugoslavia	Friendly
7 September 2002	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0-3	Romania	Euro 2004 qualifying
11 October 2002	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1-1	Germany	Friendly
11 October 2003	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1-1	Denmark	Euro 2004 qualifying
9 October 2004	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0-0	Serbia and Montenegro	2006 FIFA World Cup qualifying
30 March 2005	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0-0	Lithuania	2006 FIFA World Cup qualifying
16 August 2006	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1-2	France	Friendly
2 June 2007	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3-2	Turkey	Euro 2008 qualifying
6 June 2007	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1-0	Malta	Euro 2008 qualifying
22 August 2007	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3-5	Croatia	Friendly
12 September 2007	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0-1	Moldova	Euro 2008 qualifying
17 October 2007	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0-2	Norway	Euro 2008 qualifying
12 August 2009	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2-3	Iran	Friendly
3 March 2010	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2-1	Ghana	Friendly
7 September 2010	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0-2	France	Euro 2012 qualifying
10 August 2011	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0-0	Greece	Friendly
14 August 2013	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3-4	United States	Friendly
12 November 2020	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0-2	Iran	Friendly

Notable Club Friendlies

Date	Home Team	Result	Away Team	Occasion	Notes
17 March 1965	FK Sarajevo	1-2	Soviet Union	USSR's Yugoslav Tour	— Sarajevo: Muftić (Sirćo), Fazlagić, Vujović, Prljača (Šehović), Biogradlić, Ristić, Čerkić, Smajlović, Ferhatović (Blažević), Osim, and Mušović (Šiljkut) — USSR: Yashin, Chertkov, Shesternyov, Ponomaryov, Voronin, Shustikov, Chislenko, Kazakov, Metreveli, Logofet, and Meskhi — scorers: 0:1 Metreveli (15th min), 0:2 Kazakov (51st min), 1:2 Šehović (67th min) — attendance: ~40,000 — FK Željezničar players Ivica Osim and Mišo Smajlović played the match for Sarajevo
19 September 1969	FK Željezničar	1-1	Santos FC	Santos' Yugoslav Tour	— Željo: Radović, Hrvat, Bećirspahić, Saračević, Hadžiabdić, Bratić, Jelušić [hr], Osim (Deraković), Bukal, Musemić (Janković), and Bajić (Kojović); head coach: Milan Ribar — Santos: Gilmar, Delgado, Turcão, Lima, Clodoaldo, Joel, Manoel Maria, Nené [pt; es], Edú, Douglas, Pelé, and Abel — scorers: 1:0 Bukal (45th min), 1:1 Pelé (78th min) — attendance: ~30,000 — 22-year-old FK Sarajevo and Yugoslav national team player Vahidin Musemić played the friendly match for his club's city rival Željo only twelve days after the Sarajevo derby in the Yugoslav First League, a match in which Sarajevo beat Željo 1-2 — the friendly match was Santos' fourth and final outing on their Yugoslav tour, (four friendly matches in nine days); before Željo they played Yugoslav First League sides Red Star (September 10th; 3-3), Dinamo Zagreb (September 13th; 1-1), and Radnički Kragujevac (September 16th; 4-4) — Željo played the friendly match in-between two of their league fixtures at the start of the 1969–70 Yugoslav First League; five days earlier, they had destroyed NK Olimpija 0-4 away in Ljubljana while only two days after playing Santos, they would host FK Vojvodina and beat them 3-1[7] — the crowd and media interest that Santos FC and their soon to be twenty-nine-year-old superstar Pelé garnered in Yugoslavia was sizeable; each of their four friendlies in the country was played in front of a packed stadium (~70,000 vs Red Star at Marakana, ~60,000 vs Dinamo at Maksimir, ~8,000 vs Radnički Kragujevac at Čika Dača, and ~30,000 vs Željo at Koševo) with each match broadcast live on Yugoslav television[8]
16 June 1971	FK Željezničar	3-3	Inter Milan	FK Željezničar 50th Anniversary	— Željo: Janjuš, Kojović [it], Bećirspahić, Bratić, Katalinski, Hadžiabdić, Jelušić [hr], Janković, Bukal, Sprečo, and Džajić; head coach: Milan Ribar — Inter: Bordon, Bedin, Oriali (46th min Burgnich), Jair, Bertini, Boninsegna, Mazzola, Frustalupi, Fabbian (46th min Cella), Giubertoni, and Corso; head coach: Giovanni Invernizzi — scorers: 0:1 Boninsegna (4th min), 1:1 Janković (15th min), 2:1 Džajić (45th min), 2:2 Boninsegna (63rd min), 2:3 Mazzola (67th min), 3:3 Bukal (70th min) — attendance: ~50,000 — 25-year-old Red Star Belgrade and Yugoslav national team star player Dragan Džajić played the friendly match for Željezničar[9] — several weeks before the friendly match, Inter Milan had finished their league season, winning their eleventh Serie A league title — Željo played the friendly match in-between their league fixtures from the end of the 1970–71 Yugoslav First League season; three days earlier they had beaten NK Maribor 5-0 at home and with two weeks (two matches) left in the league, Željo—trailing league leaders Hajduk Split by 3 points—still had a slight outside chance of winning the title — four days after the friendly match with Inter, Željo travelled away to Crvenka to face relegation battlers FK Crvenka and only got a 2-2 draw while Hajduk, despite trailing 3-0 at halftime, managed to score four goals within 38 minutes and defeat FK Partizan away 3-4 thus clinching the title[10][11]
17 August 1972	FK Sarajevo	2-2	Real Madrid C.F.	FK Sarajevo 25th Anniversary	— Sarajevo: Muftić (Gruda), Tešan, Muzurović (Kuduz), Šljivo, Lubura (Demir), Rašević, D. Simić (R. Simić), Pirić, Musemić, Cerić (Frančević), and Petković; head coach: Srboljub Markušević — Real: García Remón, Touriño (José Luis 45´), Benito, Verdugo [es], Pirri (Andrés [es] 45´), Zoco, Amancio, Grosso, Santillana, Velázquez, and Aguilar; head coach: Miguel Muñoz — scorers: 0:1 Aguilera (31st min), 0:2 Pirri (36th min), 1:2 Rašević (41st min, penalty kick), 2:2 Pirić (80th min) — reigning La Liga champions Real played the friendly match as part of their pre-season training for the new La Liga season set to start two weeks later — Sarajevo played the friendly match as final preparation ahead of travelling to Bor three days later for the opening of their 1972–73 Yugoslav First League campaign away at newly-promoted FK Bor where Sarajevo would go on to lose in a 4-1 upset[12]

Concerts

• Zdravko Čolić - 7 September 1978 (Putujući zemljotres Tour, the concert got stopped midway through due to heavy rain)
• U2 - 23 September 1997 (PopMart Tour)
• Dino Merlin - 31 July 2000 (Sredinom Tour, guests: Adi Lukovac & Ornamenti, Ivana Banfić, Amir Bjelanović Tula, Miro Asotić)
• Dino Merlin - 31 July 2004 (Burek Tour, guests: Željko Joksimović, Ivana Banfić, Nina Badrić, Edo Zanki, Almir Hukelić, Gani Tamir)
• Bijelo dugme - 15 June 2005
• Haris Džinović - 23 June 2007 (guests: Halid Bešlić, Hari Varešanović, Željko Joksimović, Enis Bešlagić)
• Moj ummete 2007 - 28 July 2007
• Dino Merlin - 19 July 2008 (Ispočetka Tour, guests: Hari Varešanović, Vesna Zmijanac, Tony Cetinski, Eldin Huseinbegović, Ivana Banfić, Baby Dooks, Elvedin Krilić)
• Hari Mata Hari - 10 August 2009 (Sreća Tour, guests: Nina Badrić, Dino Merlin, Halid Bešlić, Dražen Žerić Žera, Eldin Huseinbegović)
• Željko Joksimović - 12 June 2010 (guests: Halid Bešlić, Hari Varešanović, Jelena Tomašević)
• Zdravko Čolić - 31 July 2010 (Kad pogledaš me preko ramena Tour, guests: Dino Merlin, Nikša Bratoš)
• Halid Bešlić - 22 June 2013 (Romanija Tour, guests: Haris Džinović, Željko Joksimović, Enes Begović, Dženan Jahić, Viki Miljković, Colonia, Enis Bešlagić)
• Dino Merlin - 25 July 2015 (Hotel Nacional Tour)
• Željko Joksimović - 19 August 2016
• Marija Šerifović - 1 July 2018 (guests: Jelena Karleuša)

Other events

• Pope John Paul II celebrated a mass in the stadium in front of 50,000 people - 13 April 1997
• Pope Francis celebrated a mass in the stadium in front of 67,000 people - 6 June 2015

See also

• List of football stadiums in Bosnia and Herzegovina

References

External links

• Soccerway
• World Stadiums

На других языках

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[de] Stadion Asim Ferhatović Hase

Das Asim Ferhatović Hase Stadion (bis 2004 Olimpijski Stadion Koševo/Olympisches Stadion Koševo) ist ein Fußballstadion in Sarajevo. Berühmt ist das Stadion durch die Austragung der Olympischen Winterspiele 1984 geworden. Derzeit wird das seit 2004 nach Asim Ferhatović benannte Stadion vom FK Sarajevo und durch die Bosnisch-herzegowinische Fußballnationalmannschaft benutzt.

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- [en] Koševo City Stadium

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[es] Estadio Asim Ferhatović Hase

El estadio Asim Ferhatović Hase (también conocido como estadio Koševo o estadio Olímpico de Sarajevo) es un estadio multiusos situado en la ciudad de Sarajevo, en Bosnia y Herzegovina. Es propiedad del ayuntamiento de la capital y está ubicado en el barrio de Koševo, al que debe su antiguo nombre. El estadio fue inaugurado en 1947 y con 34 630 espectadores sentados es el estadio con mayor capacidad de Bosnia. En él juega sus encuentros como local de la Premijer Liga el FK Sarajevo.

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[fr] Stade Asim-Ferhatović-Hase

Le stade Olympique Koševo (en bosniaque : Olimpijski stadion Koševo), du nom du quartier de Sarajevo où il est situé, est le stade de l'équipe nationale de football de Bosnie-Herzégovine et du FK Sarajevo.

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[ru] Асим Ферхатович-Хасе (стадион)

Олимпийский стадион «Асим Ферхатович-Хасе» (босн. и хорв. Olimpijski stadion Asim Ferhatović - Hase, серб. Олимпиjски стадион Асим Ферхатовић Хасе), ранее известный как Олимпийский стадион (босн. и хорв. Olimpijski stadion, серб. Олимпиjски стадион) и Стадион Кошево (босн. и хорв. Koševo, серб. Кошево) — крупнейший стадион Боснии и Герцеговины, на котором проходила церемония открытия XIV зимних Олимпийских игр.

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