King Baudouin Stadium Tickets

Stadium facts

King Baudouin Stadium key facts

Home team

Belgium

Capacity

50,093

Opened

1930

Owner

City of Brussels (Sports Department); operated by ASBL Prosport Bruxelles

Record attendance

64,073 — Anderlecht 1–4 Dundee, European Cup quarter-final first leg, 6 March 1963 (before the 1995 rebuild)

Pitch size

106 × 66 m

Postcode

1020

• The stadium hosted European Cup finals in 1958, 1966, 1974 and 1985, and Cup Winners’ Cup finals in 1964, 1976, 1980 and 1996.
• West Germany beat the Soviet Union 3–0 here in the Euro 1972 final.
• It staged five Euro 2000 matches, including the opening game between Belgium and Sweden and the France–Portugal semi-final.
• U2 played to 144,338 people over two nights in September 2010.
• A 2019 plan to rebuild it as a 40,000-seat ground called the Golden Generation Arena was quietly dropped.

History

About King Baudouin Stadium

The stadium opened on 23 August 1930 as the Jubilee Stadium, built for the centenary of Belgian independence on the Heysel plateau, and held 70,000 at the time. It was renamed the Heysel Stadium in 1946. On 29 May 1985, 39 Juventus supporters died before the European Cup final against Liverpool. The ground was rebuilt at a cost of about €37 million and reopened on 23 August 1995 as the King Baudouin Stadium, named after the king who had died in 1993; only a renovated gateway near the main entrance remains of the old stadium.

Seating layout

King Baudouin Stadium seating plan & capacity

All 50,093 places are seated, 36,816 in the lower ring and 13,277 in the upper ring. A nine-lane athletics track runs around the pitch, so the stands sit further from play than at a football-only ground.

• Tribune 1

  One of the four separate stands, with 10,092 seats.

• Tribune 2

  One of the four separate stands, with 14,660 seats.

• Tribune 3

  One of the four separate stands, with 10,711 seats.

• Tribune 4

  One of the four separate stands, with 14,630 seats.

Getting there

How to get to King Baudouin Stadium

King Baudouin Stadium is at 1020, Brussels, Belgium.

Metro / Tram

Metro line 6 serves Heysel/Heizel and Roi Baudouin/Koning Boudewijn stations, and Houba-Brugmann is also nearby. Trams 7 and 62 stop at Heysel, tram 9 at Roi Baudouin and Stade, and trams 51 and 93 at Stade.

Bus

STIB bus 83 stops at Heysel and Roi Baudouin, and De Lijn routes R40, R41, R50 and R60 stop at Roi Baudouin.

Walk

The stadium is at Avenue de Marathon 135/2 in Laeken, beside the Bruparck leisure park with the Atomium and Mini-Europe.

FAQ

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