Estádio José Alvalade
UEFA
Full nameEstádio José Alvalade
LocationLisbon, Portugal
Coordinates38°45′40″N 9°9′39″W / 38.76111°N 9.16083°W / 38.76111; -9.16083
Public transitLisbon Metro  Verde   Amarela  at Campo Grande
OwnerSporting Clube de Portugal
Capacity50,095
Record attendance50,046 vs Real Madrid[1]
(22 November 2016)
Field size105 x 68 m
SurfaceGrass
Construction
Broke ground15 January 2001
Opened6 August 2003
Construction cost€105 million
ArchitectTomás Taveira
Tenants
Sporting Clube de Portugal (2003–present)
Portugal national football team (selected matches)

Estádio José Alvalade (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɨʃˈtaðju ʒuˈzɛ alvɐˈlaðɨ]; is a football stadium in Lisbon, Portugal, home of Sporting Clube de Portugal. It was built adjacent to the site of the older stadium. The stadium is named after José Alvalade (1885–1918), the founder and first club member of Sporting CP in the early twentieth century.

Origin

The previous José Alvalade Stadium was opened on 10 June 1956.[2] Plans by Sporting CP to modernize the club in the late 1990s coincided with the decision to award Portugal the right to host UEFA Euro 2004, and the decision was made to build a new stadium, with construction beginning on 15 January 2001. The club's statutes dictated that the stadium would be called Estádio José Alvalade. It would be the club's seventh stadium.[3][4]

History

The stadium is the center of a complex called Alvalade XXI, designed by Portuguese architect Tomás Taveira,[5][6][7] which includes a mall called Alvaláxia with a 12-screen movie theater, a health club, the club's museum, a sports pavilion, a clinic, and an office building. The complex cost a total of €162 million, with the stadium accounting with almost €120 million. On the exterior, the stadium features multi-coloured tiles. Originally the seats were arranged in a random-looking mosaic of mixed colours, however during its second decade of use these were all gradually changed to dark green, with the roof support towers and access stairways, initially bright yellow, also repainted green.[8]

Although it eventually received a fifth star becoming a UEFA 5-star stadium, it was initially classified by UEFA as a 4-star stadium.[9] The stadium – originally projected to hold only 40,000 spectators at any given time – has a capacity of 50,095[10] and was acoustically engineered as a venue for major concerts. The stadium has also a total of 1,315 underground parking spaces, including 30 for disabled spectators.

Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon.

The new stadium official opening was on 6 August 2003 when Sporting played and beat Manchester United 3–1. Luís Filipe scored the first-ever goal at the new Estádio José Alvalade in that friendly win against Manchester United playing alongside Sporting Portugal's teammate Cristiano Ronaldo, then aged 18, who made his last appearance[11] for the Portuguese club on that same day.[12][13]

The stadium hosted five matches of UEFA Euro 2004, one of them being the semi-final between Portugal and the Netherlands, which Portugal won 2–1. In May 2005, the stadium was upgraded to 5-star stadium status by UEFA, the same month it hosted the 2005 UEFA Cup Final between Sporting and CSKA Moscow, which CSKA Moscow won 3–1.[14]

It hosted quarter-finals and semi-finals matches during the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League.[15] The stadium is one of the potential venues for the 2030 FIFA World Cup which Portugal will co-host along with Morocco and Spain.

Notable matches

First match

Team #1 Score Team #2 Date
Sporting CP Portugal 3–1 England Manchester United 6 August 2003

| Greece | 25 June 2004 | | Netherlands | 30 June 2004 | 46,679 | Semi-finals |}

2005 UEFA Cup Final

Team #1 Score Team #2 Date Attendance
Sporting CP Portugal 1–3 Russia CSKA Moscow 18 May 2005 47,085

Other international matches

Team #1 Team #2 Date Attendance Competition Notes
Portugal Portugal 7–1 Russia Russia 13 October 2004 44,258 2006 World Cup qualification Russia's biggest ever defeat
Portugal Portugal 4–0 Belgium Belgium 24 March 2007 48,009 UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying First ever competitive win over Belgium
Portugal Portugal 1–1 Serbia Serbia 12 September 2007 47,000 UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying
Portugal Portugal 2–3 Denmark Denmark 10 September 2008 33,406 2010 World Cup qualification First ever competitive loss against Denmark
Portugal Portugal 1–1 Israel Israel 11 October 2013 48,317 2014 World Cup qualification
Portugal Portugal 0–1 France France 4 September 2015 39,853 Friendly
Portugal Portugal 3–0 Luxembourg Luxembourg 12 October 2019 47,308 UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying
Portugal Portugal 0–0 Spain Spain 7 October 2020 2,500* Friendly First match played in Portugal with fans in the stands, during the COVID-19 pandemic
Portugal Portugal 3–0 Sweden Sweden 14 October 2020 5,000* 2020–21 UEFA Nations League Second match played in Portugal with fans in the stands, during the COVID-19 pandemic
Portugal Portugal 4–0 Israel Israel 9 June 2021 0 Friendly Played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Portugal Portugal 4–0 Switzerland Switzerland 5 June 2022 42,325 2022–23 UEFA Nations League
Portugal Portugal 2–0 Czech Republic Czech Republic 9 June 2022 44,100 2022–23 UEFA Nations League
Portugal Portugal 4–0 Nigeria Nigeria 17 November 2022 43,621 Friendly
Portugal Portugal 4–0 Liechtenstein Liechtenstein 23 March 2023 45,378 UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying

Seating distribution

  • Disabled Seats – 50
  • Skybox Seats – 1,542
  • VIP and Business Seats – 1,968
  • Tribune Seats – 100
  • Public Seats (Level A) – 24,261
  • Public Seats (Level B) – 21,970
  • Press Seats – 204

Transport

The Stadium is served by the Campo Grande station[16] of the Lisbon Metro and a bus terminal served by several companies. The Segunda Circular, a major ring road of Lisbon, runs close by and the stadium can be reached via the exit Estádio de Alvalade. There are several car parks around the stadium.

It is a relatively short distance (3 km) from Lisbon's biggest stadium, the Estádio da Luz, homeground of rivals S.L. Benfica.

References

  1. ↑ Group, Global Media (22 November 2016). "Sporting-Real: recorde de assistência em Alvalade". ojogo.pt.
  2. ↑ "A inauguração do Estádio José Alvalade em 1956". Torcida Verde. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  3. ↑ "Stadium History". www.sporting.pt. 2015-07-09. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  4. ↑ "Estádio José Alvalade". www.sporting.pt. 2014-11-26. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  5. ↑ Porto Editora – Estádio Alvalade XXI na Infopédia [em linha]. Porto: Porto Editora. [consult. 2023-09-02 17:32:31]. Disponível em https://www.infopedia.pt/recursos/lendas-portuguesas/$estadio-alvalade-xxi
  6. ↑ "Arquiteto do Estádio de Alvalade lamenta troca de cadeiras: "Ficará abaixo de deprimente"". www.record.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-09-02.
  7. ↑ "Estádio Alvalade XXI". Martifer. Retrieved 2023-09-02.
  8. ↑ Sporting CP v Tottenham Hotspur - Group D - UEFA Champions League, Getty Images, 13 September 2022
  9. ↑ "UEFA 5 Star Stadiums – StadiumDB.com". stadiumdb.com. Retrieved 2023-09-02.
  10. ↑ "Sporting Clube de Portugal". Archived from the original on 17 October 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  11. ↑ "O último jogo de Cristiano Ronaldo no Sporting foi há 15 anos | Vídeo". Jornal SOL (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-09-02.
  12. ↑ "Último campeão por Sporting e Benfica dedica-se às framboesas". www.dn.pt (in European Portuguese). 2017-09-17. Retrieved 2023-09-02.
  13. ↑ "Há 15 anos, Ronaldo convenceu Ferguson a assinar o "casamento perfeito"" [15 years ago, Ronaldo convinced Ferguson to sign the "perfect marriage"]. Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). 6 August 2018. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  14. ↑ "Estádio José Alvalade". www.sporting.pt. 2014-11-26. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  15. ↑ UEFA.com. "Draws | UEFA Champions League". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2021-01-16.
  16. ↑ "Google Maps". Google Maps.
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