Alkmaader Hout is a multi-use stadium in Alkmaar, Netherlands. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium is able to hold 8,914 people and was built in 1948. The Athens Olympic Stadium A modern stadium (plural stadiums, Latin plural stadia) is a place, or venue, for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts or other events, consisting of a field or stage partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event. ... Alkmaar is a city in the north-western Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. ... Football is the name given to a number of different, but related, team sports. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ...