Estadio Municipal de Braga

Location: Braga, Portual
Capacity: 30,268
Home teams:

• Sporting Clube de Braga
• Portugal national football team (ocassional)

Built in 2003 at a cost of €83 million for the 2004 European Chamionships, Estadio Municipal de Braga is an all-seater football stadium located in Braga, Portugal. It is the home of Sporting Clube de Braga and is the seventh largest football stadium in Portugal. Known as A Pedreira (The Quarry), the stadium is built into a cliff, taking advantage of the natural amphitheatre created by the hill’s slope. It’s two stands are held together by steel strings and one of the goal’s backdrop overlooked the valley of River Cavardo with a cliff face behind the other goal. The only way to access the stands is from a 5000 square metre plaza beneath the stadium.

With a capacity of 30,286 spectators, it is the seventh largest football stadium in Portugal and was the Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning stadium was designed by Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura.