Kyocera Stadium
A multi-use stadium in The Hague, home to ADO Den Haag and once named Kyocera Stadion.
Kyocera Stadion is a multi-use stadium in The Hague, Netherlands, designed by Zwarts & Jansma Architects. Completed in 2007, it is used mostly for football and field hockey. It is the home stadium of ADO Den Haag and ADO Den Haag Vrouwen, with a capacity of 15,000. It replaced ADO's former stadium Zuiderpark. Due to UEFA sponsorship regulations, it is named ADO Den Haag Stadium for European matches. The stadium was renamed Kyocera Stadion in June 2010 under a naming rights agreement with Japanese firm Kyocera.
- Location
- Kansai region, Japan
- Primary use
- Multi-purpose (baseball primary; football and events secondary)
- Sponsor / Naming rights
- Kyocera Corporation
- Roof type
- Retractable
- National team relevance
- Has hosted Japan National Team football fixtures
Lore & Background
The stadium opened on 28 July 2007 with an event celebrating the opening. Leaders touted advanced security measures including facial recognition cameras and microphones to detect fireworks or banned chants, but these were outdated and unused by 2022. The stadium was the venue for the 2014 Hockey World Cup. For the last five months of 2019, it also served as the home of AZ Alkmaar, whose AFAS Stadion underwent renovations after a roof collapse. On 18 February 2022, the roof of the Bingoal Stadion was damaged by Storm Eunice.
In Their Own Story
The floodlights hum to life at 19:40, and the first thing you notice is the silence. Forty thousand people hold their breath. The Japan captain touches the ball, and the stadium exhales. Then the away end erupts in a single sustained note, and the home supporters answer with a drum beat that you feel in your sternum before you hear it with your ears. The roof is closed; the rain that was falling over Osaka an hour ago is now just a memory on the glass panels above. A midfielder threads a pass through the centre, and the roar that follows is not a sound so much as a pressure wave, a physical force that pushes the players forward. In the upper tier, a woman in a faded samurai-blue shirt presses her palms flat against the railing and screams, and beside her a child of maybe six does the same, and neither of them will remember the score, but both of them will remember the feeling of the whole building shaking.
Reader's Guide
The stadium is located in The Hague, Netherlands. It has a capacity of 15,000. It is used mostly for football and field hockey. The stadium has been known under several names: Kyocera Stadion (from June 2010), Cars Jeans Stadion (2017–2022), and Bingoal Stadion (from 2022). For European matches, it is called ADO Den Haag Stadium.
Did You Know?
- The stadium was originally named WerkTalent Stadion.
- It replaced ADO Den Haag's former stadium Zuiderpark, which was considerably smaller.
- The stadium hosted the 2014 Hockey World Cup.
- AZ Alkmaar used the stadium for the last five months of 2019 while their own stadium underwent renovations.
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