PSV EINDHOVEN: PHILIPS STADION - THE HISTORY

THE PHILIPS STADION - HOME OF PSV EINDHOVEN SINCE 1913 Philips Stadion has been the home of PSV Eindhoven since the club’s foundation in 1913. It officially opened on 13 August 1913 with a kick-off by the 8-year-old Frits Philips, son of Philips Electronics founder Anton Philips and future livelong PSV fan. Philips Stadion was initially a bare pitch and it took until 1916 for the first wooden stand to be built. In the following decades, the stadium got gradually expanded, resulting in a capacity of about 22,000 in the post-War period. The stadium got almost entirely rebuilt between 1969 and 1977, which resulted in a completely enclosed and covered stadium with a capacity of 26,500 places. The new main stand was the last to be completed in 1977, but also the first to get rebuilt again when in 1988 cracks in the concrete were found. The new two-tiered main stand had ample corporate facilities and was considered to be the most modern of the Netherlands at that time. In the next six years, works continued with the reconstruction of the two stands at the ends, and finally with the other side of the stadium. Philips Stadion got selected as one of the playing venues of the Euro 2000 tournament, during which it hosted three first round group matches. The stadium counted with a capacity of just over 30,000 at that time, which later got increased when the upper tiers on the southern side got linked up. In 2006, Philips Stadion hosted the UEFA Cup final between Sevilla and Middlesbrough (4-0). Happy by MBB   / mbbofficial   Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music promoted by Audio Library    • Happy – MBB (No Copyright Music)