Well – more close to the truth is that this stadium appears to never have opened at all.

The industrial town of Jelgava in Latvia seems like a fairly typical heritage from the Soviet era. With a local automobile manufacturer, the RAF - Rigas Autobusu Fabrika, the factory of course had their own soccer team. Having a grand stadium in the home town must have been a high priority and it seems like this dream was about to get real as the Soviet empire seriously started to crack up around 1990. Given the type of "austerity style" construction material that is so omnipresent in the former Eastern Bloc countries, a fair guess it that the stadium project went on as a low-intensity project for quite a few years, slowed down by lack of material supply, funding and overall project management. Given that the most likely main sponsor, the RAF factory, almost guaranteed ran into financial trouble when the empire started to fall, the stadium project seems just to have faded out. It furthermore seems like the RAF factory team now has became FC Riga and presumably the spot is today just used by the local kids...

This utterly depressing ruin, located just close to the now defunct RAF premises seems to slowly deteriorate and presumably there is no cash around to fund a demolition. Given the poor quality of the structure and construction materials, it must be a matter of time before it all crashes into a pile of rubble.
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