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Estádio José Alvalade
Estádio José Alvalade is a football stadium in Lisbon, home of Sporting Clube de Portugal, one of Portugal's biggest clubs. It was designed by Tomás Taveira and was classified by UEFA as a 5-star stadium, enabling it to host finals of major UEFA events. It will host the UEFA Cup final in 2005. This stadium - originally projected to hold only 40,000 spectators at any given time - has a capacity of 52,000 and was acoustically engineered as a venue for major concerts. Its official opening was on 6 August2003 when Sporting played and beat Manchester United 3-1.
The stadium was also one of the stadiums that hosted the UEFA Euro 2004. There were five games played in Estádio José Alvalade, one of them being the semi-final between Portugal and The Netherlands, which Portugal won 2-1. This match won the title of Best Organized in the whole competition.
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