Estádio Municipal de Aveiro – Mário Duarte

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The Estádio Municipal de Aveiro (English: Aveiro Municipal Stadium) 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. The stadium has been primarily used by the historic club SC Beira-Mar since its inauguration, with the exception of the seasons between 2015–2019 when it returned to its former home, the Estádio Mário Duarte, which was demolished in 2020. 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 eleven matches of the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira (Portuguese Super Cup).

Estádio Municipal de Aveiro Stadium has a unique design that combines a simple shape with a variety of bright colours throughout the entire stadium. It was the design 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. The stadium resembles a toy for children with many 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. Different colours are used in the stadium details, 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.

The following UEFA Euro 2004 - Group D - matches were held in the stadium:

The following national team matches were held in the stadium.

The following Portuguese Super Cup finals took place at this stadium: