Estádio Carlos Osório is a

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 completely or partially surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit ...

Oliveira de Azeméis Oliveira de Azeméis () is a city and municipality in the Porto Metropolitan Area of Portugal. Administratively, the municipality belongs to the District of Aveiro. The population of the municipality in 2011 was 68,611, in an area of 161.10 ...

, Aveiro,

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. It is currently used for

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matches and is the home ground of

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side

U.D. Oliveirense União Desportiva Oliveirense (UDO), commonly known as Oliveirense, is a Portugal, Portuguese sports club from the city of Oliveira de Azeméis, in Aveiro District. The club was founded on 25 October 1922. The main football (soccer), football te ...

. The ground holds a

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of 1,750. The stadium is named after a local villager called Carlos Osório who gave permission to the club to construct the stadium on his piece of land. Following Oliveirense's promotion from the

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to the

in the 2007–08 season, the LPFP instructed the club to remodel the stadium as well as renovate it due to the professional league criteria requiring better pitch conditions.

References

External links

Official site

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