Estádio Municipal de Aveiro


The Estádio Municipal de Aveiro is a football stadium in Aveiro, Portugal. It was designed for the UEFA Euro 2004 tournament by Portuguese architect Tomás Taveira. It has a capacity of 32,830 spectators, making it the fifth largest football stadium in Portugal.
Amongst the most notable football games at the venue are two matches of the UEFA Euro 2004 championship, five matches of the Portugal national team, and seven matches of the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira.

Design

Estádio Municipal de Aveiro Stadium has an ambitious design that combines a simple and endearing shape with a liveliness of colours of every kind throughout the entire stadium. Therefore, the stadium conveys a sensation of jolliness that has a positive effect on the celebration of sports events. It was the intuition of architect Tomás Taveira to introduce intense tonality colours to the exterior of the stadium and to subsequently give a feeling of motion and a spectacular visual effect. Therefore, the stadium resembles a big toy for children with lots a coloured parts gathered together.
The stadium's polychromy and dynamism is also reflected on the interior where four tribunes contain a curvilinear profile and multicoloured seats that characterize the stadium. The seats have different colours that are distributed in a random way. Red, green, yellow, blue, white, and black seats offer an original and chromatic animation and a strong feeling of dynamism and cheerfulness - even when the stadium is empty it looks as if the party has already started.The intentional use of different colours is also reflected in the most detailed aspects, from the entrance gates, to the pillars and supporting beams. Even the walls at the inner ambience are coloured.
The roof also contributes to the harmonization process by making the stadium look like a big toy. It contains sharply red steel pylons that uphold sky-blue edges. From a more formal point of view, the slightly waved roof unifies the curved course of the underlying tribunes that offer a view over the pylons and its steel tie-beams.

UEFA Euro 2004

The following UEFA Euro 2004 - Group D - matches were held in the stadium:
DateMatchScore
15 June 2004' vs '2–1
19 June 2004' vs '2–3

Portugal national football team

The following national team matches were held in the stadium.
#DateScoreOpponentCompetition
1.15 November 20031–1Friendly
2.8 October 20052–1World Cup 2006 qualification
3.20 August 20085–0Friendly
4.29 March 20112–0Friendly
5.7 September 20140–1Euro 2016 qualifying
6.7 October 20166–0World Cup 2018 qualification

Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira finals

The following Portuguese Super Cup finals took place at this stadium:
EditionSeasonDateWinnerScoreRunner-up
31st20099 August 2009FC Porto2–0F.C. Paços de Ferreira
32nd20107 August 2010FC Porto2–0S.L. Benfica
33rd20117 August 2011FC Porto2–1Vitória de Guimarães
34th201211 August 2012FC Porto1–0Académica de Coimbra
35th201310 August 2013FC Porto3–0Vitória de Guimarães
36th201410 August 2014S.L. Benfica0–0
3–2 		Rio Ave FC
38th20167 August 2016S.L. Benfica3–0SC Braga
39th20175 August 2017S.L. Benfica3–1Vitória de Guimarães
40th20184 August 2018FC Porto3–1CD Aves