Abe Lenstra Stadion - SC Heerenveen - The World Stadium Tour

Abe Lenstra Stadion is a football stadium, located in Heerenveen, Netherlands.
It is currently used mostly as a home ground for Eredivisie club Heerenveen.
The current capacity is 27,224.
The stadium is named after Abe Lenstra, generally considered to be the greatest Heerenveen player in the history of the club.
The construction of the stadium started in 1993.
The plan was to build a stadium with open corners, but when the construction was well underway the club decided to close the gaps.
At the time the building was finished, it had a maximum capacity of 14,500.
On 20 August 1994 the stadium was officially opened by Prince Willem-Alexander of the Dutch royal family.
He made the symbolic first kick-off in this stadium.
After the opening the first match started between SC Heerenveen and PSV Eindhoven.
At the time Ronaldo played at PSV, this match was his first one in Europe.
Sportclub Heerenveen is a Dutch professional football club from Heerenveen.
They currently play in the Eredivisie, the top level of football in the Netherlands. The club is known for its Frisian identity.
The club was founded on 20 July 1920 in the town of Heerenveen, Friesland, as Athleta.
It changed name twice, first to Spartaan and then to v.v. Heerenveen in 1922.
While the Netherlands was occupied by Germany, Heerenveen won three successive North of the Netherlands championships, and following the end of World War II it went on to win the same title six times in a row the club's dominance partly ascribed to the presence of Abe Lenstra.
During this period, Lenstra led Heerenveen to a famous victory over Ajax in one of the most noted games in Dutch domestic football history.
Trailing 5–1 with 25 minutes remaining, the Frisian team inexplicably fought back for a 6–5 victory.
The crest on the club emblem is the symbol of the flag of Friesland. The flag of Friesland is based on the arms of the 15th century. The stripes and seeblatt shapes represent the districts of Friesland.
A unique tradition in the Dutch Eredivisie is that the Frisian national anthem is played and sung before every domestic match. UEFA does not allow this tradition in European matches. Nevertheless, the anthem is sung by the supporters anyway.
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