Vul. Stryiska, 088 – former "Pogoń" stadium

Lviv Sports Club "Pogoń" (LKS "Pogoń") was established in 1904 by the students of gymnasium No 4 as encouraged by their teacher Eugeniusz Piasecki (Księga, 1939, 6,9,27; Lwów i Wilno, 1997, 18; Pilka, 1996, 78). Initially, it was called a Gymnastics Sports Club of Gymnasium No 4 (Klub Gimnastyczno-sportowy 4 Gimnasjum). The name remained until 1907 when the club was named "Pogoń." The club did not have its own facility and used the cycling ground of the Lviv club of cyclists and motorists (Lwówski Klub Cyklistów i Motorowców – LKSiM). It adjoined the upper part of Stryiski park in the south. Since 1908, the club was renting the ground, and reformatted it to their home stadium (Księga, 1939, 18; Bryl, 1982, 32). However, the club wanted to get their own stadium. The management did their best to make it come true and eventually received a permit from the magistrate to manage a hilly site in the premises of Bodnarówka folwark on Stryiska street.

The construction works started in 1911 and lasted until 1913. On May, 1, 1913, the newly built stadium was blessed and commissioned into use (Księga, 1939, 54). The first football players to try it were the teams of  "Pogoń" and "Krakowia" (from Cracow). The Lviv team won in the game with the score 3:1. Soon after, the "Pogoń"  team hosted first international teams — two teams from Budapest (Budapesti Egyetelmi Athletikai Club – who were beaten twice (3:2 and 1:0) and Magna Athletikai Club they lost to, scoring 1:2); another guest team came from Vienna (Wiener Sport Club). They won from the Lviv club twice scoring 2:1 and 4:0 (Księga, 1939, 54).

In 1920–1921, the grounds for track-and-field athletics were fitted (Księga, 1939, 110). Major contribution came from the Polish Olympic Committee in terms of funding and workforce. At the same time, they expanded the stands and prolonged the pitch. In 1930, the "Pogoń"  stadium received a new fence (Księga, 1939, 216).

The sports arena had brought fame to "Pogoń" four years in a row — in 1922–1926. The football team gained the champions of Poland title (Lwów i Wilno, 1997, 21–29; Pilka, 1996, 80–85). The most fearsome players to the rivals were three forwards Mieczysław Batsch, Józef Garbien, and Wacław Kuchar. The most established European teams came to meet the club from Austria, Denmark, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslav, Hungary, and even Palestine. In 1934, a true European grand visited here, the Stryiska premises — an Italian "Milano." They went back with the defeat scoring 3:5. The grand national track and field competition that "Pogoń"  organized in 1936 was attended by such world renowned track athletes as Volmari Iso-Hollo from Finland, Janusz Kucharski from Lviv "Pogoń" (Księga, 1939,  287–288). During the celebration of the 15^th anniversary of the club, the attendees could first see the game of rugby between the teams of "white" (Polish players) and "black" (French) (Sport, 1992, 1).

The club took a thorough care of the condition of their sporting facility. They were trying to maintain the stadium on the highest level possible. In 1932–1933, reconstruction works were conducted on the stadium. In first place, the football pitch was renovated, as the grass cover was introduced. The "Pogoń" team played their first game on it against a Belgian "Standard" from Liège in May 1933 (Księga, 1939, 247). Major rearrangement of the facility was planned for 1938–1939, to celebrate 35 years of the club. Instead, they only managed to start the construction of a new training football pitch (Bryl, 1982, 286). The outbreak of the Second World War disrupted the project.

In autumn 1939, when the Soviet rule settled down in Lviv, all acting sporting societies were dismissed. The "Pogoń” stadium was occupied by the militants intending to build the barracks there (Bryl, 1982, 310). The war interrupted the project for a short time, and in the 1940s, it was resumed. The motorized rifle regiment No 5 was transferred to the barracks from the Stryiski park, as well as the automobile brigade (Мельник, 2008, 191, 349). The football pitch, now covered in asphalt, functions as a marching ground for the soldiers to drill.