The Estádio Municipal de Arouca is an
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
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 ...
located in
Arouca, Portugal
Arouca () is a city and a municipality in the Metropolitan Area of Porto, Norte Region, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 22,359, in an area of . It had 20,383 electors in 2006. The population has grown from 7072 inhabitants in 1801.
The entir ...
, which is used by
F.C. Arouca as their home ground.
Owned by the local municipality, it was built in 2006 while Arouca were still playing in the
Aveiro regional leagues. Major renovation and expansion were completed in July 2013, in time for Arouca's debut on the top-tier
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, ...
.
References
External links
Stadium pageat F.C. Arouca website
Stadium pageat Footballzz.com
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F.C. Arouca
Football venues in Portugal
Sports venues completed in 2006