UEFA EURO 2008 Stadiums: Stade de Suisse

November 26, 2007 – 5:34 pm | by admin

Stade de Suisse is located in Bern and is the home ground of BSC Young Boys. Stade de Suisse is also Switzerland’s second biggest all-seater stadium.

The history of Stade de Suisse begins another stadium: Wankdorf Stadium was demolished in 2001 and on its grounds there was built Stade de Suisse. This one had already hosted its first match (on the 16th of July 2005) when it was officially opened on the 30th of July 2005. The first match on Stade de Suisse was between Young Boys and Olympique Marseille and the host club lost. However, only 14,000 out of the total of 32,000 seats had sold.

An interesting strange and funny thing about Stade de Suisse is represented by the presence of one single, read seat among all the other black and yellow ones. This red seat is the first seat installed at the stadium, on the 20th of January 2005. Walter Eich, the ex-player and manager of the Young Boy had then the honour to unveil it. For this seat there are no tickets available, as an important personality is at every game invited to use it.

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The owner and the operator of the stadium is Stade de Suisse Wankdorf Nationalstadion AG. The construction cost of the stadium was of 350 million Euros.

On this stadium there are going to be played three group matches of the EURO 2008 competition.

Here is the location of Stade de Suisse:

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