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Nicosia Athletic Stadium G
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The new GSP Stadium complex began its operations on 6 October 1999. The complex has three arenas: the football stadium, athletics stadium and the auxiliary football stadium used for training. The stadium is owned by the Pancyprian Gymnastic Association. The football stadium has an official capacity of 22,859 making it the largest football venue in Cyprus. The club relocated here from the Palio (Old) GSP Stadium in the centre of Nicosia. The new stadium is located at the entrance to Nicosia and was inaugurated in 1999 by President Glafcos Clerides and Archbishop Chrysostomos I. The first game held there was a friendly match between AC Omonia and APOEL, which ended 3-3.
Since then, the stadium is not only the home of Nicosian teams but usually of Cyprus national football team. During the World Cup 2006 qualifying round, it was used as home for all matches of Cyprus. The stadium is the only one in Cyprus which satisfies UEFA Criteria. For this reason since 2004 it is used as home for all the teams of Cyprus in European Cups. Annually, the stadium hosts the Cyprus FA Shield (Super Cup). Also until 2005, it was hosting annually the Cyprus Cup final.
Because of the danger conflicts in Middle East, in 2002 the stadium was home for Israeli clubs for the UEFA Cup and UEFA Champions League matches. It hosted the UEFA Cup quarter final (as home for Hapoel Tel Aviv) between Hapoel Tel-Aviv and AC Milan. It was also used by Maccabi Haifa for home stadium for the Champions League Group and Qualifying Round matches and for the UEFA Cup matches. Some matches were attractive for Cypriots like the matches Maccabi Haifa-Olympiakos CFP and Maccabi Haifa-Manchester United, since those two Maccabi's rivals are very popular in Cyprus.
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