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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 13 stadiums and arenas
Best stadiums and arenas in Bucharest
The 10 most notable stadiums and arenas in Bucharest, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
"Stadionul Tineretului "Iolanda Balaș-Söter""
Strada Primo Nebiolo 2
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.386, percentile 100 of 13
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2
Magic Arena
Splaiul Independenței 336
349 m from Petrache Poenaru, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.351, percentile 91.67 of 13
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3
"Stadionul "Olimpia""
Calea Vitan 172
693 m from Mihai Bravu, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.241, percentile 83.33 of 13
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4
Iris Sports Arena
Strada Fruntaș Anghel Mihai
90 m from gara Cotroceni, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.223, percentile 75 of 13
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5
Nord Sport Arena
Șoseaua Pipera 42
330 m from Aurel Vlaicu, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.222, percentile 66.67 of 13
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6
Steaua Stadium
Bulevardul Ghencea 45
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.057, percentile 58.33 of 13
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7
Pista de Atletism Lia Manoliu
Bulevardul Basarabia 37-39
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.90 · rank score 0.810, percentile 50 of 13
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8
Arena Nationala Acces DE
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and a phone · Overture confidence 0.90 · rank score 0.790, percentile 41.67 of 13
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9
Stadionul Național de Rugby Arcul de Triumf”
Bulevardul Mărăști 19
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 0.718, percentile 33.33 of 13
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10
Complex Sportiv De Natație Otopeni
Strada Gării Otopeni 4
489 m from Otopeni railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 0.698, percentile 25 of 13
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).