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King Baudouin Stadium
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sports stadium in Brussels, Belgium
Key facts
- Former names
- Jubilee Stadium (1930–1946) Heysel Stadium (1946–1995)
- Location
- Avenue de Marathon / Marathonlaan 135/2, 1020 Laeken , City of Brussels , Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
- Capacity
- 50,093
- Surface
- Grass
- Record attendance
- 64,073 ( Anderlecht v Dundee , 6 March 1963)
- Field size
- 106 m × 66 m (348 ft × 217 ft)
- Public transit
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- Opened
- 23 August 1930
- Renovated
- 1995 (€37 million), 2024
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- stadium
- Named after
- Heysel - Heizel
- Country
- Belgium
- Located in
- Brussels
- Owned by
- Brussels
- Location
- Heysel - Heizel
- Sport
- athletics
- Official website
- www.prosportevent.be
- Image
- Stade Roi Baudouin.JPG
- Significant event
- Heysel Stadium disaster
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- Commons category
- King Baudouin Stadium
- maximum capacity
- 50024
- date of official opening
- 1930-08-23
- inception
- 1930-01-01
- nickname
- Stade Heysel
- surface played on
- lawn
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Encyclopedic overview
The King Baudouin Stadium (French: Stade Roi Baudouin [stad ʁwa bodwɛ̃]; Dutch: Koning Boudewijnstadion [ˌkoːnɪŋ ˈbʌudəʋɛinˌstaːdijɔn]) is a multi-use stadium in Brussels, Belgium. Located in the north-western district of the City of Brussels, it was built to embellish the Heysel/Heizel Plateau in view of the 1935 Brussels International Exposition. It was inaugurated on 23 August 1930, with Crown Prince Leopold attending the opening ceremony. The stadium hosted 70,000 at the time. Its name honours King Baudouin, Leopold's successor as King of the Belgians from 1951 to his death in 1993.
The stadium is located at 135/2, avenue de Marathon/Marathonlaan, on the border of the Bruparck entertainment park (with the Atomium, Mini-Europe miniature park and Kinepolis cinema). It can be accessed from the metro stations Heysel/Heizel and Roi Baudouin/Koning Boudewijn on line 6.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “King Baudouin Stadium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.