ASK Arena

ASK Arena
Location	Baku, Azerbaijan
Owner	ASK
Capacity	8,300
Surface	Artificial
Construction
Built	2001

ASK Arena (Azerbaijani: ASK Arena), formerly Inter Arena and Shafa Stadium^[1]^[2] is an all-seater football stadium located in Baku . The stadium was built on the site of Termist stadium in 2001 and has a capacity of 8,125^[3] spectators. The stadium surrounded by practice fields, administration buildings and four-star hotel.

Background

ASK Arena was built by AFFA in 2001. The first match played was a 2001–02 UEFA Cup first qualifying round between Shafa Baku and Olimija Ljubljana where the match ended 0–4. The first goal scored by Dušan Kosič.^[4]

The stadium was one of the venues for the group stages of the 2012 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. A Group A match were played there.^[5]

In July 2014, it was announced that stadium will change its name to Inter-Arena after Keşla FK (whose former name was "Inter Baku") loaned stadium for long-term from AFFA.^[2]

As the stadium changed its owner, in July 2018 it was renamed again into ASK Arena (which means Azerbaijan Industrial Corporation) for sponsorship reasons.^[6]