Abe Lenstra Stadium
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place | Abe Lenstra Boulevard 19 8448 JA Heerenveen , The Netherlands |
Coordinates | 52 ° 57 '30.8 " N , 5 ° 56' 10.1" E |
owner | SC Heerenveen |
opening | August 20, 1994 |
First game | SC Heerenveen - PSV Eindhoven 2-0 |
Renovations | 2003-2005 |
surface | Natural grass |
capacity | 26,100 seats |
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The Abe Lenstra Stadium (spelling Abe Lenstra Stadion ) is a football stadium in the northern Dutch city of Heerenveen , Friesland province . It mainly serves as the venue for SC Heerenveen , which plays in the honor division . The stadium is named after the football player Abe Lenstra from Heerenveen, who died on September 2, 1985.
history
The stadium was initially built in 1994 with a capacity of approx. 14,500 seats and expanded to 26,100 covered seats in the following years. The stadium has an à la carte restaurant called The Atmosphere , 22 event rooms and 39 boxes, as well as a food discount market . Conferences, weddings, family celebrations, etc. can be held in the event rooms. They have a capacity of 10-5,000 people. This also includes the Fryslân Fean Plaza .
U-21 European Football Championship 2007
The stadium in Heerenveen was one of four venues for the 2007 U-21 European Football Championship . Three Group A games and one semi-final took place at the Abe Lenstra Stadium. In the semi-finals between the Netherlands and England, the 32nd penalty kick decided the penalty shoot-out in favor of the hosts.
Group games
- June 10, 2007: Netherlands - Israel 1: 0
- June 13, 2007: Israel - Belgium 0: 1
- June 16, 2007: Belgium - Netherlands 2: 2
Semifinals
- June 20, 2007: Netherlands - England 1: 1 aet 13:12 i.. E.
future
SC Heerenveen is planning to expand the stadium soon with an expansion of the west stand to 32,000 seats.
panorama
Web links
- abelenstrastadion.nl: website of the stadium (Dutch)
- sc-heerenveen.nl: Stadium on the SC Heerenveen website (Dutch)
- stadionwelt.de: picture gallery
- groundhopping.de: Visitor report from 2005
Individual evidence
- ↑ Welcome to the Abe Lenstra Stadium! ( Memento of April 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Dutch)
- ↑ Fryslân Fean Plaza. (No longer available online.) In: beijkcatering.nl. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; Retrieved May 9, 2016 (Dutch).
- ↑ Heerenveen heeft uitbreiding in principe rond ( Memento of August 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Dutch)