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Estádio da Luz

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Benfica vs Estrela Amadora
Sat 23 Nov 2024 20:45

Established
0 (2023 years old)

Capacity
65,647

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Country
Portugal

Location
Lisboa,Portugal

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Upcoming

23 Nov	Benfica	-	Estrela Amad		8:45pm
07 Dec	Benfica	-	Guimaraes		6:00pm
11 Dec	Benfica	-	Bologna		8:00pm
23 Dec	Benfica	-	Estoril-Prai		6:45pm
04 Jan	Benfica	-	Braga		6:00pm
08 Jan	Benfica	-	Braga		12:00am
17 Jan	Benfica	-	Famalicao		8:15pm

Past Events

10 Nov	Benfica	4 - 1	FC Porto
30 Oct	Benfica	3 - 0	Santa Clara
27 Oct	Benfica	5 - 0	Rio Ave
23 Oct	Benfica	1 - 3	Feyenoord
02 Oct	Benfica	4 - 0	Atletico Mad
28 Sep	Benfica	5 - 1	Gil Vicente
14 Sep	Benfica	4 - 1	Santa Clara

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The Sport Lisboa e Benfica stadium, known as Estádio da Luz, is a multi-purpose stadium located in Lisbon, Portugal. It is used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of S.L. Benfica. It is also called A Catedral (The Cathedral) by Benfica supporters. It was opened on 25 October 2003 with an exhibition match between Benfica and Nacional de Montevideo.
It is a UEFA category four stadium and the twenty-first biggest stadium by capacity in Europe. The Estádio da Luz hosted several matches in the UEFA Euro 2004, including the final, and hosted the 2014 UEFA Champions League Final. The previous Benfica stadium with 120,000 seats, also called Estádio da Luz, was demolished in 2003 and the new one was built with a maximum capacity of 65,647 making it the 21st largest stadium in Europe in terms of capacity (64,642 in Primeira Liga matches). HOK Sport Venue Event (now Populous) designed the stadium to use as much natural light as possible. The original Estádio da Luz hosted the second leg of the 1983 UEFA Cup Final, the 1992 European Cup Winners' Cup final and the 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship Final held in Portugal with an attendance of 127,000 people. The original stadium replaced the Estádio do Campo Grande.
The old stadium was named in honor of the Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Luz (Church of Our Lady of the Light) and the people of Lisbon used to call it a Luz ("the Light"), so the common name for the stadium became Estádio da Luz, which is usually translated to English as "Stadium of the Light". On October 2014, it was elected as the most beautiful stadium in Europe, in an online poll by L'Équipe.


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