Daknamstadion

Daknamstadion
Former names	Het Stedelijk Stadion
Location	Daknamstraat 91 9160 Lokeren Belgium
Coordinates	51°6′59″N 3°59′14″E / 51.11639°N 3.98722°E / 51.11639; 3.98722Coordinates: 51°6′59″N 3°59′14″E / 51.11639°N 3.98722°E / 51.11639; 3.98722
Built	1956
Renovated	1974, 1997, 2000 - 2003, 2010
Expanded	1974
Owner	Municipality of Lokeren and Sporting Lokeren
Operator	Sporting Lokeren
Surface	93% Grass, 7% artificial turf [1]
Scoreboard	Only with the number of goals
Capacity	9,560
Tenants
KSC Lokeren (1970–2000) KSC Lokeren Sint-Niklaas Waasland (2000-2003) Sporting Lokeren (2003-present)

Daknamstadion is a football stadium in the village Daknam, municipality Lokeren (Belgium). The stadium is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Sporting Lokeren. Around 1980 the stadium could host 18,000 people, due to security reasons the stadium's current capicity is 9,560. Since 2008 the board of Sporting Lokeren has plans to expand the stadium with 1,760 places^[2], but the construction hasn't been started yet.

On 3 March 2010, it hosted an under 21 international between Belgium and Malta.

References

1. ^ http://www.sporting.be/content/html/verbouw0506.asp?id=158 Reconstruction pitch
2. ^ http://www.sporting.be/content/html/newsd.asp?id=5628 Construction plans Daknamstadion