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and

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playing in Finland's premier football league, the ''

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''. The stadium underwent an expansion in 2009, when a stand with 1,644 seats was built to meet the demands for the

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. The stadium has a capacity of 9,372 spectators, with 8,072 seats and 1,300 standing places. In Veritas Stadion there are two stands opposite to each other. The old Olympic stand (Olympiakatsomo) was built for the 1952 Summer Olympics and the new, modern main stand was ready in 2003. After that the name of the stadium was changed to ''Veritas Stadion'', having formerly been known simply as the "Kupittaa football stadium" (''Kupittaan jalkapallostadion''). The old Kupittaa Stadium's record attendance was approximately 15,000 spectators for the

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match between Turun Palloseura and Italian giants Inter Milan. The attendance record of 9,125 spectators was set at a match between

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and

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in 2019.

References

1952 Summer Olympics official report.
pp. 62–3.
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