About stadium

Stadium introduction

RSC Anderlecht’s Stadium is named after Constant Vanden Stock who presided over the club’s most successful period in their history between 1971 to 1996. Under his leadership, Anderlecht won a remarkable seven League titles, two Belgium Cups, The Cup Winners Cup, The UEFA Cup twice and The European Supercup. Transforming the relatively small Belgium team into a European Powerhouse who ranked joint first with Juventus in the 1986 UEFA ranking system. Originally known as the Émile Versé Stadium upon opening back in 1917 after the generous patron helped finance a basic ground on the edge of Parc du Meir or as its known today, Astrid Park. Consisting of a very basic grandstand constructed from wood to begin with, eventually concrete stands were built to satisfy fans in the years proceeding and after the war until the ground was completely rebuilt in 1983 when it became known as Constant Vanden Stock Stadium. Constructed with a slightly smaller capacity of 28,063 including 6,900 terrace places behind the goals and 21,163 seats including around 2,000 corporate facilities, Constant Vanden Stock set the standard for new stadiums across Europe in the 1980s and it disappointing fans of R.S.C Anderlecht that the ground wasn’t involved in the Euro 2000 tournament. Today the club under the direction of Roger Vanden Stock are exploring plans to expand the stadium to a 40,000 capacity arena by creating an additional tier of seats above the main stand and adjoining goal end stands. There are rumours that the stadiums naming rights could be sold to the bank Fortis with a name change to “Stadion Fortis” likely to help finance such as project although the muted company are now defunct.

How to get to the Stadium

RSC Anderlecht, Avenue Théo Verbeecklaan, 2, 1070 Brussels