Estádio do Dragão, known during its planning stage as Antas, is a light rail station on the

Porto Metro The Porto Metro () is a light rail network in Porto, Portugal and a key part of the city's public transport system. Having a semi-metro alignment, it runs underground in central Porto and above ground into the city's suburbs while using low-fl ...

system in

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. The station is underground, adjacent to the

Estádio do Dragão The Estádio do Dragão (; ') is an all-seater football stadium in Porto, Portugal, and the home ground of FC Porto since 2003. It has a seating capacity of 50,033, making it the third-largest football stadium in Portugal. Designed by Portugue ...

football stadium, from which it takes its name. It was opened in 2004, in time for that year's European Football Championship, for which the stadium hosted games. The station is a through station on line F, and acts as the eastern terminus for trains on lines A, B and E. Lines A, B, E and F run as one line within the metropolitan area to the west of Estádio do Dragão, and the next station in that direction is

Campanhã Campanhã () is a Portuguese ''freguesia'' ("civil parish"), located in the city of Porto Porto (), also known in English language, English as Oporto, is the List of cities in Portugal, second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is th ...

. To the east on line F, the next station is . Estádio do Dragão station station is located underground, between the stadium and the main line railway tracks north out of Campanhã railway station. It has three through tracks served by two

island platform An island platform (also center platform (American English) or centre platform (British English)) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway inte ...

s. Access is by lift or stairs via a higher level concourse. The new station was opened on 5 June 2004 as the terminus of an extension of the initial line from its previous terminus at Trindade. The extension was initially served by lines A and B, with line C starting on 30 July 2005, line E on 27 May 2006, and line F on 2 January 2011. Line C ceased to serve the station on 6 September 2010, when its eastern terminus was moved to Campanhã. File:Estadio do Dragao 20120829.jpg, Station entrance File:Metro do Porto - Estação Estádio do Dragão (8233821416).jpg, Information panels File:Estádio do Dragão metro station (Porto).05.jpg, Looking down into the station

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