Tự Do Stadium or Sân vận động Tự Do is located in
Thuận Hóa district
Thuận Hóa is an urban district of Huế in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam. It was formed on 1 January 2025, when the former Huế city was split into two urban districts: Phú Xuân and Thuận Hóa.
Administrative divisions
Thuận ...
,
Huế
Huế (formerly Thừa Thiên Huế province) is the southernmost coastal Municipalities of Vietnam, city in the North Central Coast region, the Central Vietnam, Central of Vietnam, approximately in the center of the country. It borders Quảng ...
,
Vietnam
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. It has a capacity of 25,000
seats. The stadium was constructed by the
French colonialists in the early 1930s, at which time it was given the name "Stade Olympique de Hué". Then, the Nguyễn court renamed it Stadium Long Bao (commemorating King
Bảo Đại
Bảo Đại (, vi-hantu, , , 22 October 191331 July 1997), born Nguyễn Phúc (Phước) Vĩnh Thụy (), was the 13th and final emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, the last ruling dynasty of Vietnam. From 1926 to 1945, he was ''de jure'' em ...
and Queen
Nam Phương
Empress Nam Phương (14 November 1913 – 16 September 1963), born Marie-Thérèse Nguyễn Hữu Thị Lan, was the last empress consort of Vietnam. She was the wife of Bảo Đại (), the last emperor of Vietnam (officially named as Names ...
's son
Bảo Long
:''In the Vietnamese name below,'' Nguyễn ''is the surname.''
Nguyễn Phúc Bảo Long, Crown Prince of Vietnam (阮福保隆, 4 January 1936 – 28 July 2007) was the eldest son of Bảo Đại and Queen Nam Phương. He was the last crown ...
).
Tự Do stadium is the home field of the
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
club
Huda Hue F.C. (the first football club in Thừa Thiên–Huế).
References
Football venues in Vietnam
Buildings and structures in Huế
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