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Heerenveen’s stadium first opened on the 20th August 1994 courtesy of Prince Willem-Alexander with the inaugural match held against PSV Eindhoven who’s side featured the young Brazilian superstar Ronaldo. Construction on the stadium began a year before with the original design consisting of 4 separate stands, although the club opted to fill the corners in with seating to create a more intimate arena. The ground is named after Abe Lenstra Stadion who is widely regarded by fans of Heerenveen to be the greatest player ever for the club, having jointed the club as a 15 year old back in 1920. He would then go on to play for the club before the best part of 17 years, making over 730 appearances where he scored a remarkable 700 goals across all competitions. Abe Lenstra stadium has undergone one significant expansion to date, with the 2002 renovations essentially doubling the initial 13,000 capacity to today’s 25,100. The club have twice now planned further developments in order to satisfy the growing waiting list for season tickets but progress has been frustrating: the 2011 expansion to 32,000 was seen as too risky and the expansion plans a year later for a scaled back 29,000 were put on hold due to the global economic downturn. The stadium was included as one of five stadiums along with Amsterdam Arena and De Kuip to host matches of the 2022 World Cup, although sadly the competition was awarded to Qatar (2022). A successfully joint bid with Belgium would have seen Abe Lenstra expanded to an impressive 44,000.

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Abe Lenstra Blvd 19, 8448 JA Heerenveen, Netherlands