Stage Jan Breydel
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| Place
| bgcolor=#EEEEEE| Bruges
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| initial Construction
| bgcolor=#EEEEEE| 1974
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| Current form since
| bgcolor=#EEEEEE| 1998
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| Capacity
| bgcolor=#EEEEEE| 29.042 places
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| Club resides
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The Jan Breydel Stadion is the stage of FC Bruges and the Cercle Bruges KSV. Built in 1974, its capacity is of 29.042 places. It bears the name of Jan Breydel, a hero of the Bataille of Courtrai (1302).
History
In 1973, with a second championship of Belgium for FC Bruges, the alarm bell resounds on the financial plan as well with the Club as with the Cercle. Two Brugean associations had evil to buckle the budgets, and the municipal authorities of the time decided, under the impulse of the burgomaster Michel Van Maele, to give a nudge in the right direction to the two clubs of the City. Behind the church Saint-Andrew, one sets up a new stage on a vast plain, where as well the Club as the Cercle would play alternatively their home matches. In summer 1975, two associations move towards their new home port which one named " Olympia".
The stage which had an initial capacity of 30.000 places (including 8.000 sitted), underwent not badly modification since its construction. In 1987, in the Western platform, one builds cabins and business-seats, which causes disappearance 1.000 places sitted. In 1993, a payment of UEFA request to replace all the places debouts by seats, which only carries the capacity of the stage to 18.000 people. In May 1995, the candidature of Bruges for the Euro 2000 is accepted and at the summer 1997, with the financial aid of the federal government and Flemish, the construction of a second stage in the Northern platform and the platform Southern is started. The stage has thus of a second complete stage and 29.042 places which cannot be all exploited for safety reasons. As there is an direct aid of money investment of the Flemish government, the name of Olympiastadion must change and the complex becomes the Stage Jan Breydel (Jan Breydelstadion in Dutch). According to the English model, the temple of Brugean football is, at this moment, the first in Belgium which, by the combination of its blue and white seats, in the Northern higher platform, lets clearly appear the name of its stage…
External bonds
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Plane of the stage
- Seen satellite of the stage on WikiMapia
- Photographs
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