King Baudouin Stadium
- Belgian national football team
- Royal Excelsior Sports Club de Bruxelles ( athletics)
- European Athletics Championships 1950
- Final of the European Cup of Champions 1958
- Final of the European Cup Winners 1964
- Final of the European Cup of Champions 1966
- Final of the European Football Championship 1972
- Final of the European Cup of Champions 1974
- Final of the European Cup Winners 1976
- Final of the European Cup Winners 1980
- Final of the European Cup of Champions 1985
- Final of the European Cup Winners 1996
- European Football Championship 2000
- Final of the Belgian Cup football
- Memorial Van Damme
- Concerts
The King Baudouin Stadium ( Stade Roi Baudouin French, Dutch Koning Boudewijnstadion ) is a football stadium with track and field facility in the Belgian capital Brussels. It was called the Heysel Stadium until 1985 and was rebuilt mid-1990s to a multi-purpose arena. The largest, with around 50,000 seats stadium Belgium was in the year 2000 to the semifinals of the eight venues for the European football championship 2000. Since 1977 and the Memorial Van Damme will be held here, one of the most prestigious athletics meeting world that the series of IAAF Diamond League ranks.
Heysel Stadium
The Heysel Stadium was built in the late 1920s and officially opened in 1930 on the occasion of 100 years of independence of Belgium as " Stade du Centenaire " (Stadium of the centenary ). The stadium provided at that time about 70,000 people, it has developed over the following decades, a legendary sports venue with many international football matches. Primarily, they offered the Belgian national football team a home. She was also in the years of 1958-1985 seven times location for the finals of the Champions Champions Cup and Cup Winners' Cup. Counting the 1974 made necessary replay added in which, finally, the FC Bayern München 4-0 (two days earlier 1:1) could prevail against Atlético Madrid, there were even eight games.
In 1972, the Kingdom of Belgium hosted the European Football Championship and Brussels Location of the final match between Germany and the Soviet Union. A crowd of around 43,000, the DFB team secured the Heysel Stadium - two years before the World Cup victory on home soil - the first European title.
Heysel disaster of 1985
On 29 May 1985, the Heysel Stadium was hit by a disaster. Immediately before the start of the European Cup final between Juventus and Liverpool, there was a dispute between drunken British hooligans and Italian supporters in block Z. There actually have a "neutral " to stop Belgian audience. Finally, the English bats stormed the majority occupied by Italians block and thus triggered a stampede, trampled in the numerous people and crushed at the fences and walls. One of the walls of the Heysel stadium had become derelict, collapsed under this pressure. Throughout the event, the Belgian security forces were overwhelmed because they had not provided enough policemen.
The game between the two teams, which in spite of what happened - for security reasons - kicked off, ended 1-0 for Juventus converted a Michel Platini's penalty after a foul on Zbigniew Boniek. Platini commented on the game later with the words: "If crashing in the circus of acrobats, it's time for the clowns ." The planned on ZDF television transmission was aborted before the game starts. Eberhard Figgemeier reporter commented on the (still broadcast live ) riots.
In the end, 39 people were dead and over 400 injured, some seriously. English clubs were subsequently excluded for five years entirely by international cup competitions, Liverpool was not allowed to occur even internationally for seven years. Dozens of hooligans and among other things a number of officials were partially tried and convicted until years later in court, including a corrupt official. He had not sold tickets for block Z to neutral spectator, but to Italian travel agencies.
The stadium has been used for several years as athletics arena for the Memorial Van Damme, before it was finally completely rebuilt in 1994. In memory of 29 May 1985 on the twentieth anniversary on the scene a memorial was inaugurated: a sixty -square-foot sundial, which includes the names of the 39 dead by then.
King Baudouin Stadium
The King Baudouin stadium was officially opened on 23 August 1995 with a friendly match between Belgium and Germany (1:2). Contrary to the current trend and the completely redesigned stadium was again provided with an athletics track and is therefore not a pure football stadium.
1996 was the stadium for the first time since the disaster again the venue for a European Cup final. In the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup the French capital club Paris Saint- Germain defeated the Austrian representatives Rapid Wien 1-0.
In 2000, Belgium was with the Netherlands host the European Football Championship; including the opening match against Sweden - - in the King Baudouin stadium all three group games of the Belgians were a quarter and played a semi-final encounter. Meanwhile, the stadium does not meet the highest requirements of UEFA.