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Location | Antwerp, Belgium |
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Coordinates | 51°13′58″N4°28′18″E / 51.2327003°N 4.4715750°E |
Stadion Broodstraat was an Association football or soccer venue located in Antwerp, Belgium. The venue hosted the Royal Antwerp FC from 1908 to 1923. It served as the main venue for the football tournament at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
The 1920 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad and commonly known as Antwerp 1920, were an international multi-sport event held in 1920 in Antwerp, Belgium.
Football was one of the 154 events at the 1920 Summer Olympics, held in Antwerp, Belgium. It was the fifth time association football was on the Olympic schedule. The tournament expanded to 15 countries, including a non-European nation (Egypt) for the first time.
The Olympisch Stadion or Kielstadion was built as the main stadium for the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. For those games, it hosted the athletics, equestrian, field hockey, football, gymnastics, modern pentathlon, rugby union, tug of war, weightlifting and korfball (demonstration) events. Following the Olympics it was converted to a football stadium. Its current tenant is K Beerschot VA, a Belgian football club. There are no remnants of the Olympic athletics track.
Egypt competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium.
The NHK Spring Mitsuzawa Football Stadium is an association football stadium in Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan. It serves as a home ground of Yokohama FC and, on occasion, Yokohama F. Marinos. Until 1999 it had been the home of Yokohama FC's spiritual predecessor, Yokohama Flügels, and also, on occasion, of Kawasaki-based NKK FC. The stadium holds 15,454 people.
Athletes from the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. It was the first Summer Olympics with Yugoslav athletes participating, appearing at every edition of the Games until Yugoslavia's dissolution in 1992. Eleven Yugoslav athletes participated in Belgium: only the football team – without the substitutes.
Luxembourg competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium.
Henri M. J. de Deken was a Belgian association football player in defender role. In career he played mostly for Royal Antwerp F.C. For Belgium national football team he was in roster for 1930 FIFA World Cup, played one match with Paraguay, losses 0–1. He was also part of Belgium's team at the 1928 Summer Olympics, but he did not play in any matches.
Bernardus ("Ber") Groosjohan was a football (soccer) player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp and the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. In Antwerp Groosjohan won the bronze medal with the Netherlands national football team.
Émile Hamilius was a Luxembourgish politician for the Democratic Party. He was the Mayor of Luxembourg City from 1946 until 1963, and also sat three stints in the Chamber of Deputies. Hamilius was the second President of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions, from 1953 until 1959.
Statistics of Belgian First Division in the 1956–57 season.
Fernand Wertz was a Belgian football coach and striker. He was born in Dolhain.
Nachtegalen Park is a park located in the Antwerp, Belgium municipality of Wilrijk. It served as the archery venue for the 1920 Summer Olympics.
The Garden City Velodrome was a velodrome located in Antwerp, Belgium. A 400-metre track, it hosted the track cycling events for the 1920 Summer Olympics and the UCI Track Cycling World Championships that year.
Stade Nautique d'Antwerp was an aquatics venue located in Antwerp, Belgium. For the 1920 Summer Olympics, it hosted the diving, swimming, and water polo.
The Palais de Glace d'Anvers was a sports venue located in Antwerp, Belgium. Measuring 168 feet (51 m) long by 58.5 feet (17.8 m) wide, it hosted both the figure skating and ice hockey events for the 1920 Summer Olympics. The building was demolished in 2016.
Hoogboom Military Camp was a military installation located in Brasschaat, Belgium, located 10 km northeast of neighboring Antwerp. The venue hosted the Olympic trap and 100 metre running deer shooting events for the 1920 Summer Olympics.
The Beerschot Tennis Club, now known as the Royal Beerschot Tennis and Hockey Club is a field hockey and tennis club founded in 1899 in Kontich, Belgium, located in neighboring Antwerp. It hosted the tennis events for the 1920 Summer Olympics.
Robert Maertens was a Belgian international footballer who played as a midfielder.
Viktor Löwenfeld, also spelled Victor Löwenfelt, was a former defending Austrian football player and trainer. He played in Austrian(-Hungarian) clubs, appeared as international and managed Belgian teams among which the Belgium national football team.