Stadion Feijenoord
The Tub: Feyenoord's home on the south bank since 1937.
Stadion Feijenoord, better known as De Kuip (the Tub), is the Rotterdam stadium finished in 1937 and named after the Feijenoord district and the club of the same name. It has also staged matches of the Dutch national team, and from the late 1970s it was used for concerts by international touring acts until the city stopped permitting them after mid-2025.
Quick Facts
- Nickname
- De Kuip
- Location
- Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Built
- 1935–1937
- Opened
- 27 March 1937
- Renovated
- 1994
- Capacity
- 47,500 (limited capacity); 51,117; 50,000 (concerts)
- Tenants
- Feyenoord (1937–present); Netherlands national football team (selected matches)
- Architect
- Leendert van der Vlugt; Broekbakema (renovation)
Reader's Guide
The idea came from Leen van Zandvliet, Feyenoord's president in the 1930s, who wanted a ground with two free-hanging tiers and nothing blocking the view. Johannes Brinkman and Leendert van der Vlugt, designers of the Van Nelle factory, built it from glass, concrete and steel, then cheap materials, with money from Daniel George van Beuningen. It opened for 64,000, grew to 69,000 in 1949, got floodlights in 1958, survived a German plan to scrap it during the Second World War and was listed as a Rotterdam monument on 29 October 1991. The 1994 rebuild made it an all-seater of 51,117 with a roof over every seat and added a commercial building with a restaurant and the club museum, and it was restored again in 1999 ahead of Euro 2000. Plans for a new stadium or a 70,000-seat renovation, discussed from 2006 onward, did not go ahead.
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