Estádio Municipal Sérgio Conceição (Sérgio Conceição Municipal Stadium) is a

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stadium in Taveiro, in the city of

Coimbra Coimbra (, also , , or ), officially the City of Coimbra (), is a city and a concelho, municipality in Portugal. The population of the municipality at the 2021 census was 140,796, in an area of . The fourth-largest agglomerated urban area in Po ...

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. Built in 2002, it has 2500 seats and was named after

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, a football player born in Coimbra. The stadium belongs to the municipality of Coimbra and is the home ground for the football teams of two local sports clubs: Clube de Futebol União de Coimbra and União Desportiva Taveirense. Académica de Coimbra's home ground, the

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, was rebuilt, expanded, and modernized to host some

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matches, and because of it, during most of the 2002/2003 season Académica de Coimbra played their home games at this stadium.

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''O nome dos estádios''
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