30 Forgotten Stadiums Where the Crowd Never Came Back
27. The Jungle-Consumed Stadion Dziesięciolecia (Poland)
Stadion Dziesięciolecia, or the "10th Anniversary Stadium," was a grand Soviet-era sports complex in Warsaw, built in 1955. It hosted national football matches and massive political rallies, becoming a symbol of Communist Poland. However, by the 1980s, it had fallen into disrepair. Instead of being demolished, it was overtaken by nature and unofficially repurposed as one of Europe’s largest outdoor markets, where traders sold everything from knockoff jeans to Soviet memorabilia. Eventually, the stadium was replaced by the modern National Stadium, but traces of its past remain beneath the redevelopment.
