Petah Tikva Stadium
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The Petah Tikva Stadium, also known as the HaMoshava Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium
Multi-purpose stadium
Multi-purpose stadiums are a type of stadium designed in such a way as to be easily used by multiple sports. While any stadium could potentially host more than one sport, this concept usually refers to a specific design philosophy that stresses multi-functionality over specificity...

 in Petah Tikva
Petah Tikva
Petah Tikva known as Em HaMoshavot , is a city in the Center District of Israel, east of Tel Aviv.According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, at the end of 2009, the city's population stood at 209,600. The population density is approximately...

, Israel
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, currently under construction. Once completed in 2011, it will be used mostly for football matches and be home to both Hapoel Petah Tikva and Maccabi Petah Tikva.

The stadium will have an all-seated capacity of 11,500 at its first stage of construction and a final capacity of 20,000 seats.
As part of a larger sports park in the new industrial area of the city, the complex will also boast a 3,000 seat multi-purpose arena, and artificial turf training fields. The budget for the stadium is US$
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25 million dollars.

The designers of the new stadium are GAB (Goldshmidt Arditty Ben Nayim) Architects, one of Israel's leading sport architecture firms that also designed the new Netanya Stadium
Netanya Stadium
The Netanya Stadium is a new multi-use stadium currently being built in Netanya by the city council. Financing of the new stadium is to come from the sale of land where the old Sar-Tov Stadium stands today. Upon completion of the new stadium, Sar-Tov will be demolished and the land will be used...

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The stadium will be inaugurated on 6 December 2011, after almost two years of construction.
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