Estádio do CD das Aves is a multi-use

stadium A stadium ( : stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand o ...

Vila das Aves Aves is an industrial town and civil parish (freguesia) in northern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 8,458, in an area of 6.16 km².

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. It is currently used mostly for

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matches and is the home ground of previous

C.D. Aves Clube Desportivo das Aves (), commonly known as Desportivo das Aves, or simply as Aves, is a Portuguese professional football club based in Vila das Aves, Santo Tirso. The club was founded on 12 November 1930 and plays at the Estádio do Clube ...

until 2021 and currently

AVS Futebol SAD AVS Futebol SAD is a Portuguese association football club currently playing in the Liga Portugal 2, the second tier of Portuguese football league system. They are based in the town of Aves (Santo Tirso), Vila das Aves and they play in Estádio do ...

from 2023. The stadium holds 8,560 people and was built in 1981. It underwent many renovations during the new millennium especially in the year 2000, when Desportivo das Aves gained promotion to the

Primeira Liga The Primeira Liga (; English: Premier League, also written as Liga Portugal 1), also known as Liga Portugal Bwin for sponsorship reasons, is the top level of the Portuguese football league system. Organised and supervised by the Liga Portugal, ...

for the second time in their history. When the stadium was built, there were 12,500 seats available, but it currently seats only 8,560 after the club decided to remove some of its seats. The

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used the stadium as a training ground in preparation for

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. France reached the quarter-final stage of the competition after being knocked out of the tournament by eventual winners

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thanks to a goal by Angelos Charisteas.Slick Greece shock EURO holders France

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.com, 25 June 2004

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