The football club Zimbru opened on Saturday evening, May 20, the first stadium in Chisinau that complies with international standards. On this occasion Zimbru played a friendly match with “Crylia Sovetov” from Samara, Russia which ended with the score of 1:1. The new stadium of the club has a capacity of 10 thousand places and costs 12 million USD. It is a part of a Sports Center of the Club that costs 15 million USD. Besides the central stadium, the Sports Center includes training stadiums – with artificial and natural grass a hotel center for the foreign teams and football school for youth. Constructing the building lasted 3 years. FC Zimbru was founded in 1940 with the name of “Dinamo”. During the years the club had several names, inclusively Nistru-Chisinau. He won 8 times the Moldovan Championship and 4 times the Cup of Moldova.