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The Estádio da Luz is a football stadium in Lisbon, Portugal, the home of SL Benfica.
It hosted several matches in the 2004 European Football Championship, including the final. It was completely rebuilt for the tournament, and now has a capacity of 65,400. The architect, Damon Lavelle, designed the stadium to use as much natural light as possible. It is classified by UEFA as a 5 star stadium, allowing it to host major European cup finals. The original Estádio da Luz, opened in 1954, hosted the 1992 European Cup Winners' Cup final before a crowd of well under 120,000, its tantamount capacity in those years.
The stadium is usually known in English as the "Stadium of Light" and it sits in the Lisbon district of Benfica. The Stadium of Light in Sunderland, England was named with the Lisbon stadium in mind.
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