Jan Louwers Stadium
Jan Louwers Stadium | |
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The Jan Louwers Stadium in September 2015 | |
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place | Charles Roelslaan 1 5644 HX Eindhoven , The Netherlands |
Coordinates | 51 ° 24 '42.3 " N , 5 ° 28' 45.6" E |
opening | September 9, 1934 |
First game | September 9, 1934 FC Eindhoven - Ajax Amsterdam 2-8 |
Renovations | 1994, 1997 |
surface | artificial grass |
capacity | 4,500 seats |
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The Jan Louwers Stadium (spelling Jan Louwers Stadion ) is a football stadium in the southern Dutch city of Eindhoven , in the province of Noord-Brabant .
Previously, the stadium had a cinder track with curved, earthen and brick grandstands on the north and south sides, so that in the 1970s up to 18,000 visitors were still present.
It was completed in 1934 and currently offers 4,500 spectators covered seating, including 102 VIP seats and 40 workstations for journalists. The main user of the stadium is the first division club FC Eindhoven .
history
The stadium in the southern Stratum district was built by the city of Eindhoven in the 1930s to give the football club FC Eindhoven a new home for its home games. It was inaugurated on September 9, 1934 with a game between FC and Ajax Amsterdam , which the hosts lost 8-2. A sports park was built around the stadium on Aalsterweg in the following decades, in which an indoor sports center and the fields of the Oranje Zwart and EMHC hockey clubs are located.
Originally the oval consisted of two stands on the west and south sides. The east stand was only built in 1997. Also in 1997 the stadium was named after the Dutch soccer player Jan Louwers , who played for FC Eindhoven between 1952 and 1955 and led the club to its only Dutch championship in 1954. Since the 2006/07 season, the four stands have been named after the former FC Eindhoven players Noud van Melis , Dick Snoek , Frans Tebak and Henk Bloemers .
Web links
- Jan Louwers Stadium ( Memento from September 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (Dutch)
- Picture gallery In: stadionwelt.de .
- Jan Louwers Stadium (KR) - Eindhoven . In: europlan-online.de .
Individual evidence
- ↑ fussballtempel.net: List of Dutch stadiums ( Memento from April 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )