Stadion Koturaška, also referred to as Građanski Stadium was a football stadium in Zagreb, Croatia. It was located at Koturaška Road in today's Trnje neighbourhood and was home to the football club Građanski Zagreb for more than 20 years, from 1924 to 1945. After World War II and the dissolution of Građanski it was taken over by the newly formed NK Dinamo Zagreb who used is as their home ground until 1948 when they moved to their present-day home at Stadion Maksimir. Koturaška was eventually abandoned and demolished in the early 1950s.

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In the 1920s and 1930s the Kingdom of Yugoslavia national team often hosted matches in Zagreb, but the main venues used for these were grounds owned by Concordia and HAŠK football clubs (present-day Stadion Kranjčevićeva and Stadion Maksimir). However, in May 1932 Koturaška hosted a friendly between Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Poland, which attracted a crowd of 6,000 and ended in Poland's 3–0 win. In 1940 the team of Banovina of Croatia (at the time province of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) played two unofficial international matches at the stadium, beating Switzerland 4–0 in April (through goals from Florijan Matekalo, August Lešnik and a brace by Zvonko Cimermančić) in front of a crowd of 10,000, and drawing 1–1 against Hungary in December, with Franjo Wölfl scoring the single goal for the home team, in front of 8,000 spectators. All the players who scored for Croatia at Koturaška in 1940 were footballers of Građanski. Following the 1941 invasion of Yugoslavia the new Nazi-allied regime formed the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and organized a national team which was officially recognized by FIFA. They hosted a number of international friendlies in Zagreb during World War II, all of them with teams of other Axis nations. Although the national football championship was also played intermittently throughout the war, with Građanski hosting matches at Koturaška, the NDH national team's primary home stadium was Concordia's ground located where today's Stadion Kranjčevićeva is.