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The Tehelné Pole football stadium in Bratislava is the largest and the most prestigious sports arena in Slovakia. In this paper the author characterises the specific features that distinguish this facility from other modern football stadiums. He analysed its significance to the popularisation of football in this country, using an original sports facility evaluation methodology. The author assessed the functioning of the stadium and distinguished the components influencing the effectiveness of its regionand state-wide operation, as well as on the district and city scale—in the macro and micro scales. The study demonstrates the development potential of the Slovak’s football infrastructure compared to Central Europe.

Football is a global sport and can attract crowds of fans to stadiums in some parts of the world, while in others, itcan attract but a handful. What is the reason for these diff erences? What infl uences the variability of the attendance results recorded at various stadiums? Based on a data analysis of attendance for the 2014/15-2018/19 seasons(4,565 matches), in 6 Central European countries (Germany, Poland, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary), the author attempted to determine the signifi cance of the visiting teams attracting power and the impact ofthe seasons (month) when the matches were played on attendance in these countries