Stadium Name: | Skalka Stadium |
Location: | Bytomska 40, 41-608 Świętochłowice, Poland |
Coordinates: | 50.3011°N 18.92°W |
Opened: | 1 June 1979 |
Operator: | association football motorcycle speedway |
Capacity: | 26,000 |
Record Time: | 67.07 sec |
Record Driver: | Dawid Lampart |
Record Year: | 17 July 201 |
Length Km: | (373 metres) 0.373 |
Stadion Skałka im. Pawła Waloszka, Paweł Waloszek Skałka Stadium is a motorcycle speedway and association football stadium located in the centre of Świętochłowice off the Bytomska 40 road.[1] It is part of the Skałka Sports and Recreation Center. The Polish sports club Śląsk Świętochłowice uses the stadium. This consists of a football team and speedway club.[2]
The stadium was built in the second half of the 1970s on a waste dump. It was officially opened on 1 June 1979 and on 22 June 1979, a record attendance of 27,000 people.[3]
In April 2005, during a mass for John Paul II, nearly 20,000 people gathered at the stadium.
In October 2014, the stadium was renamed to the Paweł Waloszek Stadium.[4]
In February 2023, the stadium began reconstruction.