Sportpark De Toekomst

De Toekomst
Full name Sportpark De Toekomst
Location Amsterdam, Netherlands
Coordinates 52°18′48″N 4°55′44″E / 52.31333°N 4.92889°ECoordinates: 52°18′48″N 4°55′44″E / 52.31333°N 4.92889°E
Owner Gemeente Amsterdam
Stadion Amsterdam N.V.
Capacity 5,000 seats (matches)
Surface Grass
Construction
Built 1993–1996
Opened 14 August 1996
Tenants
Jong Ajax (Reserves)
Ajax Vrouwen (Women's)
Ajax Zaterdag (Amateurs)

Sportpark De Toekomst is a stadium in Amsterdam, Netherlands. De Toekomst (Dutch for The Future), is a sporting complex comprising 9 fields located next to the Amsterdam Arena in the municipality of Ouder-Amstel. Sportpark De Toekomst seats 5,000 people, and is the location where the second string of Ajax Amsterdam play their matches Jong Ajax (Reserves) and Ajax Zaterdag (Amateurs), as well as the youth teams Ajax A-juniors (A1, A2), B-juniors (B1, B2), C-juniors (C1, C2), D-pupils (D1, D2, D3), E-pupils (E1, E2, E3) and the F-pupils (F1, F2, F3). It also serves as the training grounds for the AFC Ajax senior squad. Images of Jong Ajax and Ajax A1 at this site are regularly seen on Dutch television. The letters ajax, visible on the training sites main grandstand, were previously mounted on Ajax old grounds at De Meer Stadion.[1]

The grandstand at De Toekomst was renamed after the deceased Bobby Haarms on 13 June 2009.

On 3 July 2013 it was announced that an additional stand with 2,250 seats was to be built at De Toekomst, in order to accommodate an increase of spectators for the visiting team, as Jong Ajax, no longer playing in the Beloften Eredivisie, had joined the Eerste Divisie, the 2nd tier of professional football in the Netherlands. De Toekomst still serves as the home stadium for Jong Ajax, while matches with higher intensity are hosted in the Amsterdam Arena next door.[2]

See also

Teams

Stadia

References

  1. ↑ Ajax - Over het jeugdcomplex
  2. ↑ "De Toekomst krijgt 2250 Zitplaatsen". Ajax Showtime. Retrieved 2013-07-08.