Jan Breydel Stadium
Two fierce rivals share one city-owned bowl — whoever plays tonight, 29,042 seats make their case loudly.
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Built in 1975 as the Olympiastadion with 18,000 seats, it was expanded and renamed before hosting Euro 2000 matches. The name honors Jan Breydel, an instigator of the Bruges Matins — the 1302 insurgency that triggered the Battle of the Golden Spurs. Club Brugge and Cercle Brugge, top-flight rivals, both call it home, which makes a match day here unusually charged.
What to look for
- The stadium nameplate bearing Jan Breydel's name — honoring an instigator of the Bruges Matins, the 1302 insurgency that led to the Battle of the Golden Spurs
- The pitch surface itself: resurfaced in December 2015 with Mixto, an Italian hybrid of natural and artificial grass
- The scale relative to its origins — grown from 18,000 seats pre-1999 to its current 29,042
Tickets range €5–€60 per seat per match; check the Club Brugge or Cercle Brugge schedules before visiting — the stadium is in Sint-Andries, just outside central Bruges.
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More to see in Bruges
- Madonna of BrugesThe Christ child looks ready to walk away — and Mary isn't trying to stop him.
- Church of Our LadyThe third-tallest brick church tower in the world marks the spot where a Michelangelo marble and two Burgundian royal tombs share the same Gothic nave.
- GroeningemuseumSix centuries of Flemish painting — Van Eyck's 1436 altarpiece to Magritte — inside a single building on the site of a medieval abbey.
- Belfry of BrugesThree times gutted by fire, three times rebuilt — and still leaning 87 cm to the east.
- Basilica of the Holy BloodA crusader brought a relic of the Holy Blood to Bruges in 1150 — it still sits upstairs in the same chapel he built.
- Sint-SalvatorskathedraalA parish church for nine centuries, it only became Bruges's cathedral in 1834 because the French demolished the original — then its roof burned down five years later.