Stadion Juliska
In 2013, Dukla's board floated a sponsorship deal that would have renamed the ground Škoda Transportation Arena. Supporters objected loudly enough that the plan was dropped, and the stadium kept the name it had carried since 1960 — Juliska, after the street Na Julisce on which it stands.
The stand that defines the place dates from 1975: a brutalist main stand in exposed concrete, its steel frame carrying the roof without a single supporting column breaking the sightlines from the rows below. Architect Cyril Mandel, working through the Prague Project Institute, set it into the natural slope of the hillside rather than building it up from flat ground, and the reconstruction pushed capacity to 29,000 — more than three times what the ground holds today.
That figure held through further work in 1977–82, until a 2011 refit replaced the terraces with individual seats and left no standing room at all: capacity dropped to 8,150, where it has stayed since. The record crowd predates all of that — 20,000 packed in on 8 March 1967 to watch Dukla face Ajax in the European Cup, five and a half years after the ground's first continental tie, a 2-1 win over CSKA Sofia. Dukla still play here on natural grass, and Juliska doubles as an athletics venue, hosting the annual Josef Odložil Memorial. KISS filled it for a concert on 7 June 1997, drawing around 22,000.
Who plays here
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Dukla Praha
130 matches
Recent matches here
| Date | Match | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Aug | Dukla Praha — Vysočina Jihlava | 3:1 |
| 14 Aug | Dukla Praha — Slavia Praha II | 1:3 |
| 7 Aug | Dukla Praha — Hanácká | 2:0 |
| 24 Jul | Dukla Praha — Arsenal Česká Lípa | 2:0 |
| 11 Jul | Dukla Praha — Sparta Praha II | 4:2 |
| 26 Jun | Dukla Praha — Mladá Boleslav | 2:0 |
| 23 May | Dukla Praha — Baník Ostrava | 0:3 |
| 9 May | Dukla Praha — Slovácko | 0:1 |