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{{Short description|Football stadium in Rotterdam}}

{{Infobox venue
| stadium_name = Stadion Feijenoord
| image = Feyenoord Rotterdam's De Kuip stadium in 2022 before a match against FC Emmen.jpg
| caption = '''[[UEFA Elite stadium|UEFA]]''' {{rating|4|4}}
| fullname = Stadion Feijenoord
| nickname = De Kuip
| logo_image = De_Kuip_logo.png
| location = [[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]]
| coordinates = {{Coord|51|53|38|N|4|31|23|E|type:landmark_region:NL-ZH|display=title,inline}}
| built = 1935–1937
| opened = {{Start date and age|df=y|1937|3|27}}
| renovated = 1994
| seating_capacity = {{Plainlist|
* 47,500<ref name="capacity">{{cite web |url=https://www.dekuip.nl/stadion-feijenoord |title= Stadion Feijenoord |publisher= dekuip.nl |language=nl|access-date=31 March 2021}}</ref> (limited capacity)
* 51,117<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.stadionfeijenoord.nl/ |title = Stadion Feijenoord – Het mooiste voetbalstadion van Nederland}}</ref>
* 50,000 (concerts)
}}
| tenants = [[Feyenoord]] (1937–present)<br>[[Netherlands national football team]] (selected matches)
| architect = Leendert van der Vlugt<br>Broekbakema (renovation)
| dimensions = 105 m × 68 m
| website = {{Official website}}
}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}}
{{Expand Dutch|Stadion Feijenoord|date=September 2012}}
'''Stadion Feijenoord''' ({{IPA|nl|ˌstaːdijɔɱ ˈfɛiənoːrt|pron}}), more commonly known by its nickname '''De Kuip''' ({{IPA|nl|də ˈkœyp|pron}}, the Tub),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/5957cb44-65fe-43d2-bbf5-48e336f48b23 |title=Some of the world's scariest places to play or watch football |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=9 November 2018 |access-date=11 November 2018}}</ref> is a [[stadium]] in [[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]]. It was completed in 1937. The name is derived from the [[Feijenoord|Feijenoord district]] in Rotterdam, and from [[Feyenoord|the club with the same name]] (although the club's name was internationalised to Feyenoord in 1973). The stadium has also hosted the [[Netherlands national football team|Dutch national football team]]. Beginning in the late 1970s, it also became a concert venue, including for international touring musical acts, though the local government stopped allowing concerts after mid-2025. 

The stadium's original capacity was 64,000. In 1949, it was expanded to 69,000, and in 1994 it was converted to a 51,117-seat [[all-seater stadium|all-seater]]. In 1999, a significant amount of restoration and interior work took place at the stadium before its use as a venue in the [[UEFA Euro 2000]] tournament, although capacity was largely unaffected.

==History==
Leen van Zandvliet, Feyenoord's president in the 1930s, came up with the idea of building an entirely new stadium, unlike any other on the continent, with two free hanging tiers and no obstacles blocking the view. Contemporary examples were [[Arsenal Stadium|Highbury]], where the West and East stands had been recently built as a double deck, and [[Yankee Stadium (1923)|Yankee Stadium]] in [[New York City|New York]]. [[Johannes Brinkman]] and [[Leendert van der Vlugt]], the famous designers of the [[Van Nelle factory]] in Rotterdam were asked to design a stadium out of glass, concrete and steel, cheap materials at that time. The stadium was co-financed by the billionaire [[Daniël George van Beuningen]], who made his fortune in [[World War I]], exporting [[coal]] from Germany to Britain through neutral Netherlands.

In [[World War II]], the stadium was nearly torn down for scrap by German occupiers. After the war, the stadium's capacity was expanded in 1949; stadium lights were added in 1958. On 29 October 1991, De Kuip was named as being one of Rotterdam's monuments.<ref name="kuiphist" /> In 1994 the stadium was extensively renovated to its present form:<ref name="kuiphist" /> It became all-seater, and the roof was extended to cover all the seats. An extra building was constructed for commercial use by Feyenoord, it also houses a restaurant and a museum, The Home of History.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stadionfeijenoord.nl/pagecongres.php?id=196&l=6&i=4 |title=Home of History |publisher=stadionfeijenoord.nl |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070207011831/http://www.stadionfeijenoord.nl/pagecongres.php?id=196&l=6&i=4 |archive-date=2007-02-07 }}</ref>{{Panorama
 | image      = File:Panorama Kuip Bekerfinale PEC Zwolle-Ajax.jpg
 | caption    = De Kuip before the [[KNVB Cup]] final in April [[2013–14 KNVB Cup|2014]]
 | height     = 250
}}

=== Failed new stadium plans ===
From 2006, Feyenoord began working on plans for a new stadium, initially planned for completion in 2017 and with an estimated capacity of 85,000 seats. In 2014, Feyenoord decided to renovate the existing stadium, expanding its capacity to 70,000, as well as adding a retractable roof. Construction was planned to start in summer 2015 and finish in 2018, with an estimated €200&nbsp;million cost. Plans included a new training facility costing an extra €16 million.<ref>http://www.feyenoord.nl/nieuws/nieuwsoverzicht/feyenoord-kiest-voor-vernieuwbouwde-kuip-ffc. Feyenoord.nl (in Dutch)</ref>

In March 2016, Feyenoord announced that they instead preferred building a new stadium.<ref>http://www.rijnmond.nl/nieuws/139913/Feyenoord-wil-nieuwe-Kuip-langs-de-Maas. Rijnmond.nl (in Dutch)</ref> In May 2017, the city of Rotterdam agreed with a plan to build a new stadium with a capacity of 63,000 seats. In December 2019, Feyenoord announced that if construction of the new stadium was given the final go-ahead in 2020 the stadium would open in the summer of 2025.<ref>{{cite web |date=10 December 2019 |title=Bij groen licht opent het nieuwe stadion in 2025 |url=https://www.feyenoord.nl/nieuws/nieuwsoverzicht/bij-groen-licht-opent-het-nieuwe-stadion-in-2025-101219 |access-date=10 December 2019 |work=Feyenoord |language=nl}}</ref> On 21 April 2022, managing director Dennis te Kloesse announced that the club would not proceed with renovating the existing stadium or building a new one.<ref>{{cite web |date=21 April 2022 |title=Feyenoord gaat niet door met bouw nieuw stadion |url=https://nos.nl/l/2425984 |access-date=21 April 2022 |work=Feyenoord |language=nl}}</ref>

==Facilities and related buildings==
Next to De Kuip and Feyenoord's training ground there is another, smaller sports arena, the [[Topsportcentrum Rotterdam]]. This arena hosts events in many sports and in various levels of competition, including in [[judo]], [[volleyball]], and [[team handball|handball]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.topsportcentrum.nl/ |title=Topsportcentrum Rotterdam |publisher=topsportcentrum.nl }}</ref>

==Commercial uses==
===Football history===
De Kuip is currently the home stadium of football club [[Feyenoord]], traditionally one of the top teams in the Netherlands. It has also long been one of the home grounds of the [[Netherlands national football team]], having hosted over 150 international matches, the first international match at the stadium was a match against [[Belgium national football team|Belgium]] on 2 May 1937. In 1963, De Kuip staged the [[1963 European Cup Winners' Cup Final|final]] of the [[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup|European Cup Winners' Cup]], with [[Tottenham Hotspur F.C.|Tottenham Hotspur]] becoming the first British club to win a European trophy, defeating [[Atlético Madrid]] 5–1. The stadium has hosted a record ten European finals, the last being the [[2002 UEFA Cup Final]] in which Feyenoord, coincidentally playing a home match, defeated [[Borussia Dortmund]] 3–2. In 2000, the Feijenoord stadium hosted the [[UEFA Euro 2000 Final|final]] of [[UEFA Euro 2000|Euro 2000]], played in the Netherlands and Belgium, where [[France national football team|France]] defeated [[Italy national football team|Italy]] 2–1 in extra time.<ref name="kuiphist">{{cite web |url=http://www.vasf.nl/historie.php|title=Feijenoord – historie |publisher=vasf.nl |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070516173256/http://www.vasf.nl/historie.php |archive-date=2007-05-16 }}</ref> The stadium also hosted the [[2023 UEFA Nations League Finals#Final|2023 UEFA Nations League Final]].

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left;"
|-
!Date
!Winners
!Result
!Runners-up
!Round
!Attendance
|-
|15 May 1963||{{flagicon|ENG}} [[Tottenham Hotspur F.C.|Tottenham Hotspur]]||style="text-align:center"|5–1||{{flagicon|ESP|1945}} [[Atlético Madrid]]||[[1963 European Cup Winners' Cup Final]]||49,000
|-
|23 May 1968||{{flagicon|ITA|1946}} [[A.C. Milan|Milan]]||style="text-align:center"|2–0||{{flagicon|GER}} [[Hamburger SV]]||[[1968 European Cup Winners' Cup Final]]||53,000
|-
|31 May 1972||{{flagicon|NED}} [[AFC Ajax|Ajax]]||style="text-align:center"|2–0||{{flagicon|ITA|1946}} [[Inter Milan]]||[[1972 European Cup Final]]||61,354
|-
|8 May 1974||{{flagicon|GDR}} [[1. FC Magdeburg|Magdeburg]]||style="text-align:center"|2–0||{{flagicon|ITA|1946}} [[A.C. Milan|Milan]]||[[1974 European Cup Winners' Cup Final]]||6,461
|-
|26 May 1982||{{flagicon|ENG}} [[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]]||style="text-align:center"|1–0||{{flagicon|GER}} [[FC Bayern Munich|Bayern Munich]]||[[1982 European Cup Final]]||46,000
|-
|15 May 1985||{{flagicon|ENG}} [[Everton F.C.|Everton]]||style="text-align:center"|3–1||{{flagicon|AUT}} [[SK Rapid Wien|Rapid Wien]]||[[1985 European Cup Winners' Cup Final]]||38,500
|-
|15 May 1991||{{flagicon|ENG}} [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]]||style="text-align:center"|2–1||{{flagicon|ESP}} [[FC Barcelona|Barcelona]]||[[1991 European Cup Winners' Cup Final]]||43,500
|-
|14 May 1997||{{flagicon|ESP}} [[FC Barcelona|Barcelona]]||style="text-align:center"|1–0||{{flagicon|FRA|1974}} [[Paris Saint-Germain F.C.|Paris Saint-Germain]]||[[1997 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final]]||36,802
|-
|2 July 2000||{{fb|FRA|1974}} ||{{center|2–1 ([[Golden goal#Association football|g.g.]])}}||{{fb|ITA}}||[[UEFA Euro 2000 Final]]||50,000
|-
|8 May 2002||{{flagicon|NED}} [[Feyenoord]]||style="text-align:center"|3–2||{{flagicon|GER}} [[Borussia Dortmund]]||[[2002 UEFA Cup Final]]||45,611
|-
|18 June 2023||{{fb|ESP}}||style="text-align:center"|0–0 (5–4 pen)||{{fb|CRO}}||[[2023 UEFA Nations League Finals#Final|2023 UEFA Nations League Final]]||41,110
|}

===Concerts===
The stadium has hosted concerts since 1978. The first show was headlined by [[Bob Dylan]], with special guest [[Eric Clapton]], on 23 June 1978.<ref>{{Cite web |title=40 jaar muziek in De Kuip |url=https://www.nporadio5.nl/nieuws/wekkerwakker/baf415b7-a905-4eab-a225-6e4e3358c1be/40-jaar-muziek-in-de-kuip |access-date=2025-01-07 |website=NPO Radio 5 |language=nl}}</ref> [[David Bowie]] held his dress rehearsals and subsequently opened his 1987 [[Glass Spider Tour]] at the stadium.<ref name=GlassIdol>{{Citation | last = Currie| first = David| title = David Bowie: Glass Idol| publisher = Omnibus Press| place = London and Margate, England| edition = 1st| year = 1987| isbn = 0-7119-1182-7}}</ref> In 1995, [[René Froger]] became the first Dutch artist to headline at De Kuip, and he sold out two shows.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-01-06 |title=René Froger: van de kroeg naar de Kuip |url=https://www.bndestem.nl/overig/rene-froger-van-de-kroeg-naar-de-kuip~a521dbb2 |website=[[BN DeStem]]}}</ref> In 2008, [[Kane (Dutch band)|Kane]] became the first Dutch band to headline the stadium.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rediscover het jaar 2008 - KANE Official |url=https://kaneofficial.nl/rediscover/2008 |access-date=2025-01-07 |website=kaneofficial.nl |language=nl}}</ref> In 2019, [[Marco Borsato]] held five concerts at De Kuip to increase his total to 14, breaking [[The Rolling Stones]]' past venue record of 10.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-12-31 |title=Vanavond op televisie: Borsato in De Kuip {{!}} Conference Claudia de Breij |url=https://www.nu.nl/media/6020741/vanavond-op-televisie-borsato-in-de-kuip-conference-claudia-de-breij.html |website=[[NU.nl]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-11-06 |title=Marco Borsato kondigt twee extra optredens in De Kuip aan |url=https://www.nu.nl/uit/5576540/marco-borsato-kondigt-twee-extra-optredens-in-kuip.html |website=[[NU.nl]]}}</ref>

In April 2024, the municipality of [[Rotterdam]] announced that with the construction of new houses nearby concerts would no longer take place at De Kuip beginning in 2026, to eliminate [[noise pollution]] in the area. De Kuip will receive 12 million euros from Rotterdam as compensation.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Eersel |first=Dennis van |date=2024-04-17 |title=Nooit meer concerten in De Kuip, stadion krijgt miljoenen compensatie |url=https://www.rijnmond.nl/nieuws/1815453/nooit-meer-concerten-in-de-kuip-stadion-krijgt-miljoenen-compensatie |access-date=2025-01-07 |website=www.rijnmond.nl |language=nl}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Vriend |first=Herman |date=2024-06-20 |title=Mogelijk toch nog popconcerten in De Kuip vanaf 2026 |url=https://www.rijnmond.nl/nieuws/1849999/mogelijk-toch-nog-popconcerten-in-de-kuip-vanaf-2026 |access-date=2025-01-07 |website=www.rijnmond.nl |language=nl}}</ref> Three concerts from the Dutch band [[Di-rect]] from 12 to 14 June 2025 are scheduled to be the final shows in the stadium.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-22 |title=DI-RECT verkoopt 100.000 kaarten binnen uur, 3e concert toegevoegd |url=https://www.rtl.nl/boulevard/entertainment/artikel/5456795/di-rect-verkoopt-binnen-uur-100000-kaarten-3e-concert-kuip?utm_source=headliner.nl&utm_medium=link&utm_term=free&utm_content=textlink&utm_campaign=Headliner.nl |access-date=2025-01-07 |website=RTL Nieuws & Entertainment |language=nl}}</ref>

==Euro 2000==
{| class="wikitable"
! Date !! Team 1 !! Result !! Team 2 !! Round
|-
| 13 June 2000 || {{fb|ESP}} || {{center|0–1}} || {{fb|NOR}} || [[UEFA Euro 2000 Group C#Spain vs Norway|Group C]]
|-
| 16 June 2000 || {{fb|DEN}} || {{center|0–3}} || {{fb|NED}} || [[UEFA Euro 2000 Group D#Denmark vs Netherlands|Group D]]
|-
| 20 June 2000 || {{fb|POR}} || {{center|3–0}} || {{fb|GER}} || [[UEFA Euro 2000 Group A#Portugal vs Germany|Group A]]
|-
| 25 June 2000 || {{fb|NED}} || {{center|6–1}} || {{fb|FRY}} || [[UEFA Euro 2000 knockout stage#Netherlands vs FR Yugoslavia|Quarter-finals]]
|-
| 2 July 2000 || {{fb|FRA|1974}} || {{center|2–1<br>([[Sudden death (sport)#Association football|asdet]])}} || {{fb|ITA|1946}} || [[UEFA Euro 2000 Final|Final]]
|}

==2023 UEFA Nations League Finals==
One of the venues of the [[2023 UEFA Nations League Finals]].

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" 
|-
! Date
! Team #1
! Result
! Team #2
! Round
! Attendance
|-
| 14 June 2023|| {{fb|NED}}|| {{center|2–4}} {{aet}} ||{{fb|CRO}}||[[2023 UEFA Nations League Finals#Semi-finals|Semi-finals]]||39,359
|-
| 18 June 2023|| {{fb|CRO}}|| {{center|0–0}} {{aet}} {{pso|4–5}} ||{{fb|ESP}}||[[2023 UEFA Nations League final|Final]]||41,110
|}

==Average attendance numbers per season, 1937–2007==
{{Wide image|Feyenoord bezoekersaantallen.png|1200px}}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:De Kuip Rotterdam The Netherlands.jpg|De Kuip from above
File:DeKuipdak2006.jpg|Inside the stadium
File:De Kuip2006.jpg|Another view inside the stadium
File:Feyenoord Helicopter 05.jpg|Feyenoord [[helicopter]] entering the stadium
File:Detail, belettering Stadion Feijenoord - Rotterdam - 20349852 - RCE.jpg
File:Overzicht vanaf de straat - Rotterdam - 20349853 - RCE.jpg
File:Overzicht - Rotterdam - 20349854 - RCE.jpg
File:Stadion Feijenoord plattegrond.svg
</gallery>

==See also==
* [[Football in the Netherlands]]
* [[Lists of stadiums]]
* [[UEFA]]

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Feijenoord Stadion}}
* {{Official website}}
* [http://www.football-match.de/rotterdam/ De Kuip] at Footballmatch.de
* [http://www.ict4us.com/markant/googlemaps-kuip.htm Aerial photo] on Google Maps
* [http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=bbef159963f058f76f108db943926730 3D format on Google Earth] ({{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106083228/http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=bbef159963f058f76f108db943926730 |date=2013-11-06 }})

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