Orlik sports field No. 1500 opened
The programme ‘My Sports Field – Orlik 2012’ has reached another milestone. Poland’s 1500th Orlik was opened in Skarżysko Kamienna on November 19th 2010. It is the second Orlik sports field built in this town and the thirty-third in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship.
The programme of construction of general-access, free of charge sports fields was launched in 2008. Since then, 1504 facilities comprising an artificial grass football pitch and a multi-purpose pitch have been built. These complexes also include lighting, changing rooms and sanitary facilities.
So far, the greatest number of Orlik sports fields have been opened in the Wielkopolskie Voivodeship (177) and in the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship (132). In terms of the ratio of Orlik sports fields to the number of municipalities, Zachodniopomorskie, Pomorskie and Zachodniopomorskie Voivodeships top the list (99%, 93% and 92%, respectively).
By the end of this year, the number of completed Orlik sports fields should exceed 1700.
The Ministry of Sport and Tourism not only helps build these facilities, but also takes measures to ensure that their potential is utilized. To this end, the Orlik Tournament for the Cup of Prime Minister Donald Tusk was held in autumn this year on the new sports fields. Almost ten thousand teams including more than a hundred thousand boys and girls participated in the event. It was one of the largest tournaments of this sort in Europe.