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| Full name | Estádio José Alvalade |
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| Location | Lisbon, Portugal |
| Coordinates | 38°45′40″N9°9′39″W / 38.76111°N 9.16083°W /38.76111; -9.16083 |
| Public transit |  Verde Amarela atCampo Grande |
| Owner | Sporting Clube de Portugal |
| Capacity | 50,095 |
| Record attendance | 50,046 vsReal Madrid[2] (22 November 2016) |
| Field size | 105 x 68 m |
| Surface | Grass |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | 15 January 2001; 24 years ago (2001-01-15) |
| Built | 2001–2003 |
| Opened | 6 August 2003; 21 years ago (2003-08-06) |
| Construction cost | €184 million[1] |
| Architect | Tomás Taveira |
| Tenants | |
| Sporting Clube de Portugal (2003–present) Portugal national football team (selected matches) | |
| Website | |
| sporting.pt | |
TheEstádio José Alvalade (Portuguese pronunciation:[ɨʃˈtaðjuʒuˈzɛalvɐˈlaðɨ];English:José Alvalade Stadium) is afootball stadium inLisbon, Portugal, home ofSporting Clube de Portugal. It was built adjacent to the site of theolder stadium. The stadium is named afterJosé Alvalade (1885–1918), the founder and first club member of Sporting CP in the early twentieth century.
The previous José Alvalade Stadium was opened on 10 June 1956.[3] Plans bySporting CP to modernize the club in the late 1990s coincided with the decision to award Portugal the right to hostUEFA Euro 2004, but the decision to build a new stadium, was made before. The construction beginning on 15 January 2001. The club's statutes dictated that the stadium would be called Estádio José Alvalade. It would be the club's seventh stadium.[4][5]
The stadium is the center of a complex calledAlvalade XXI, designed by Portuguese architectTomás Taveira,[6][7][8] which includes a mall called Alvaláxia with a 12-screen movie theater, a health club, the club's museum, a sports pavilion, a clinic, and an office building. The new Alvalade stadium cost €184 million to build,[9] around €80 million more than originally planned, of which €17,907,915 was supported from thePortuguese state.[10] On the exterior, the stadium featured multicoloured tiles which were later removed. In 2021, Sporting CP announced that it would change the colour of the seats in the multicoloured stands of Estádio José Alvalade to green (the main colour of the sports club). The colour change was completed in 2022.[11] Originally the seats were arranged in a random-looking mosaic of mixed colours, however during its second decade of use these were all gradually changed to dark green, with the roof support towers and access stairways, initially bright yellow, also repainted green in 2011.[12]
Although it eventually received a fifth star becoming aUEFA5-star stadium, it was initially classified by UEFA as a 4-star stadium.[13] The stadium – originally projected to hold 42,000 spectators at any given time – has a capacity of 50,095[14] and was acoustically engineered as a venue for major concerts. The stadium has also a total of 1,315 underground parking spaces, including 30 for disabled spectators.
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The new stadium official opening was on 6 August 2003 when Sporting played and beatManchester United 3–1.Luís Filipe scored the first-ever goal at the new Estádio José Alvalade in thatfriendly win against Manchester United playing alongside Sporting Portugal's teammateCristiano Ronaldo, then aged 18, who made his last appearance[15] for the Portuguese club on that same day.[16][17]
The stadium hosted five matches of UEFA Euro 2004, one of them being the semi-final betweenPortugal and theNetherlands, which Portugal won 2–1. In May 2005, the stadium was upgraded to 5-star stadium status by UEFA, the same month it hosted the2005 UEFA Cup Final between Sporting andCSKA Moscow, which CSKA Moscow won 3–1.[18]
It hosted quarter-finals and semi-finals matches during the2019–20 UEFA Champions League.[19] The stadium is one of the potential venues for the2030 FIFA World Cup which Portugal will co-host along with Morocco and Spain.
The followingnational team matches were held in the stadium.
| # | Date | Score | Opponent | Competition | Attendance |
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| 1 | 13 October 2004 | 7–1 |  Russia | 2006 World Cup qualification | 44,258 |
| 2 | 24 March 2007 | 4–0 |  Belgium | UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying | 48,009 |
| 3 | 12 September 2007 | 1–1 |  Serbia | UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying | 47,000 |
| 4 | 10 September 2008 | 2–3 |  Denmark | 2010 World Cup qualification | 33,406 |
| 5 | 11 October 2013 | 1–1 |  Israel | 2014 World Cup qualification | 48,317 |
| 6 | 4 September 2015 | 0–1 |  France | Friendly | 39,853 |
| 7 | 12 October 2019 | 3–0 |  Luxembourg | UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying | 47,308 |
| 8 | 7 October 2020 | 0–0 |  Spain | Friendly | 2,500 |
| 9 | 14 October 2020 | 3–0 |  Sweden | 2020–21 UEFA Nations League | 5,000 |
| 10 | 9 June 2021 | 4–0 | Israel | Friendly | 0 |
| 11 | 5 June 2022 | 4–0 |  Switzerland | 2022–23 UEFA Nations League | 42,325 |
| 12 | 9 June 2022 | 2–0 |  Czech Republic | 2022–23 UEFA Nations League | 44,100 |
| 13 | 17 November 2022 | 4–0 |  Nigeria | Friendly | 43,621 |
| 14 | 23 March 2023 | 4–0 |  Liechtenstein | UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying | 45,378 |
| 15 | 19 November 2023 | 2–0 |  Iceland | UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying | 45,655 |
| 16 | 4 June 2024 | 4–2 |  Finland | Friendly | 43,125 |
| 17 | 23 March 2025 | 5–2 | Denmark | 2024–25 UEFA Nations League | 47,123 |
| Date | Team #1 | Score | Team #2 | Round | Attendance |
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| 14 June 2004 | Sweden | 5–0 |  Bulgaria | Group stage | 31,652 |
| 20 June 2004 | Spain | 0–1 |  Portugal | Group stage | 47,491 |
| 23 June 2004 |  Germany | 1–2 | Czech Republic | Group stage | 46,849 |
| 25 June 2004 | France | 0–1 |  Greece | Quarter-finals | 45,390 |
| 30 June 2004 | Portugal | 2–1 |  Netherlands | Semi-finals | 46,679 |
| Date | Team #1 | Score | Team #2 |
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| 6 August 2003 | Sporting CP | 3–1 |  Manchester United |
| Date | Team #1 | Score | Team #2 | Attendance |
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| 18 May 2005 | Sporting CP | 1–3 | CSKA Moscow | 47,085 |
The Stadium is served by theCampo Grande station[20] of theLisbon Metro and a bus terminal served by several companies. TheSegunda Circular, a major ring road of Lisbon, runs close by and the stadium can be reached via the exit Estádio de Alvalade. There are several car parks around the stadium.
It is a relatively short distance (3 km) from theEstádio da Luz, homeground of rivalsS.L. Benfica.
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