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Key facts<\/h3>\n

Club: none | Opening: 1953 | Closing: 2016 | Final capacity: 38,652 seats<\/p>\n

History and description<\/h3>\n

Pusk\u00e1s Ferenc Stadion, previously\u00a0known as N\u00e9pstadion, was built to provide Hungary with a larger national stadium to replace the \u00dcll\u0151i \u00fati Stadion.<\/p>\n

Plans initially involved a 70,000-stadium, but this was later expanded to 100,000 places. Construction got approved in 1948, and works finished five years later.<\/p>\n

N\u00e9pstadion officially opened on 20 August 1953 with a large event and a match between Honv\u00e9d and Spartak Moscow (3-2).<\/p>\n

Two years later, the stadium recorded its largest attendance when 104,000 people attended an international between Hungary and Austria.<\/p>\n

Few changes were made to the stadium until it got converted into an all-seater in the 1990s. Capacity got further reduced due to safety measures.<\/p>\n

The stadium got renamed in 2002 in honour of legendary Hungarian football player Ferenc P\u00faskas.<\/p>\n

In the mid 2000s, plans were made to rebuild Puskas Ferenc Stadion as part of Hungary’s bid to host the Euro 2012<\/a> Championships. While the bid failed, the Hungarian government kept working on plans to build a new modern stadium, which became concrete in 2014 when Budapest was selected as one of the host cities of\u00a0the Euro 2020<\/a> Championships.<\/p>\n

Demolition of the stadium started in 2016, and the new Puskas Arena<\/a> opened in 2019.<\/p>\n

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