Name of the stadium • 1935—1938: Stanislav Kosior Stadium • 1938—1945: Taras Shevchenko Park Stadium • 1945—1958: Central Stadium Kharchovyk • 1958: Avanhard Stadium • 1958—2009: Central Stadium of the Black Sea Shipping Company (alternatively Central Stadium ChMP) • since 2011: Chornomorets Stadium
Former stadium The former ChMP stadium was built on the same site in 1935, and it was originally named as
Stanislav Kosior Stadium after the
First Secretary of the
Communist Party of the
Ukrainian SSR,
Stanislav Kosior. After Stanislav Kosior was repressed in the 1930s, the name was changed to
Shevchenko Park Stadium. After
World War II, the stadium was passed to the ownership of the republican Ministry of Food and received name as the
Central Stadium Kharchovyk. At the end of the 1950s, it was renamed as
Avanhard Stadium after the Ukrainian Sport Society of industrial workers. In 1959, the stadium was renamed to the Central Stadium of the
Black Sea Shipping Company or alternatively
Central Stadium Chornomorets. ChMP could hold 34,362 people. It hosted the
Ukrainian Super Cup from 2004 until 2007. At the end of 2008, it was closed and, in 2009, it was demolished. ==New stadium==