Johan Cruyff Stadium (

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: ''Estadi Johan Cruyff'';

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: ''Estadio Johan Cruyff'') is a football stadium operated by

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, Spain, located in the

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, the club's training facility and youth academy, about 7 km from

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. The stadium is home to

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, and Juvenil A (U19 A team). It is named in honor of legendary Dutch footballer

Johan Cruyff Hendrik Johannes Cruijff (, internationally known as Johan Cruyff; 25 April 1947 – 24 March 2016) was a Dutch professional football player and manager. As a player, he won the Ballon d'Or three times, in 1971, 1973 and 1974. Cruyff was a ...

who died in March 2016. It is a UEFA Category 3 stadium and houses 6,000 supporters. As part of the Espai Barça project, it is the replacement for the

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, which was in front of

and was demolished in 2020, and the land of the Mini Estadi will be used to build the Nou Palau Blaugrana.

History

Estadi Johan Cruyff broke ground on 14 September 2017 and was completed in Summer 2019. It was opened on 27 August 2019 with a friendly match between the under-19 teams of

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and

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. The match ended up in a 0–2 score where Ajax was the winner. On 26 August 2019, a day before the stadium was officially opened to the public,

paid tribute to Cruyff by unveiling his statue at

References

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