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in the

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. The stadium was built after the design by Harry Elte, with which he had won the contest for a national stadium in 1912. The stadium was completed in 1914. For some time it was the only stadium with brick stands in the country. Prior to the construction of the

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used for the 1928 Summer Olympics, it was the primary stadium used for the city until the 1928 Games. This was to the fact that the stadium could not handle track running and

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events though it could accommodate football games, seating 29,000. 1914 Stadium Amsterdam

Olympisch Stadion Amsterdam under construction

The addition of running lanes and a cycling track would have reduced the capacity to 17,000. Despite this, the old stadium did host some of the

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and football events for the 1928 Games. The stadium was demolished in 1929 to make way for the projected housing, part of

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. The area is still known as Stadionbuurt, after the Old Stadium.

References

1928 Summer Olympics official report.
pp. 173–80. Venues of the 1928 Summer Olympics Defunct football venues in the Netherlands Olympic field hockey venues Sports venues in Amsterdam Blauw-Wit Amsterdam Sports venues completed in 1914 Sports venues demolished in 1929 {{Summer-Olympic-venue-stub