Demush Mavraj Stadium

The pitch in Istog is grass, and that is close to the whole of the ground's equipment list. There are no running tracks separating the stands from the touchline, and no floodlights, so whatever is played here is played in daylight — the ground never got past that stage.

Demush Mavraj Stadium , also written as Stadiumi 'Demush Mavraj', sits in Istog, a municipality in the Peja district in the north-west of Kosovo. The name belongs to Demush Mavraj, father of the Albanian international Mërgim Mavraj.

What the ground can hold is the thing that shifts most from one listing to the next. Six thousand is the figure that recurs. No record survives of what the capacity was when the ground first opened, so the gap sits there unresolved.

There is a trace of building work in the paper record — a document headed Construction Phase IV, tendered but with the detail unavailable. The absence of floodlights and of a track suggests those phases did not amount to a full modernisation.

The year the ground opened has not been established, nor who built it, nor the street it stands on. In Istog the stadium is simply there, on grass, in the daylight.