The Bosuilstadion 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 in the city of Antwerp,

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. The stadium was opened in 1923 and has been the home of

Royal Antwerp Royal Antwerp Football Club, often referred to as Royal Antwerp or simply Antwerp, is a Belgian football club based in the city of Antwerp. Founded around 1880 as ''Antwerp Cricket Club'' by English students residing in Antwerp, 15 years before ...

ever since. It has a capacity of 16,144,Great Old in fonkelnieuwe Bosuil
HLN, 25 november 2017 of which 800 are indoor VIP seats. It is located in the district of Deurne. The Bosuilstadion hosted the

1964 European Cup Winners' Cup Final The 1964 European Cup Winners' Cup Final was a football match contested between Sporting CP of Portugal and MTK Budapest of Hungary. The fourth European Cup Winners' Cup final, the match was played at Heysel Stadium, Brussels, ending in a 3–3 ti ...

replay, which sealed the victory of Sporting Clube de Portugal against

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. It also hosted the

UEFA Euro 1972 The 1972 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was held in Belgium. This was the fourth UEFA European Championship, held every four years and endorsed by UEFA. The final tournament took place between 14 and 18 June 1972. Only four ...

semifinal between

and

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, won by West Germany. Many friendly international games of Belgium were played at the Bosuil, many of which were against the

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. However, the stadium has not hosted an international game since a friendly match Germany against

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in 1988. A major reconstruction of the stadium started in 2017.

References

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