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 ...

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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

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club Huda Hue F.C. (the first football club in Thừa Thiên–Huế).

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