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Stadium

Estadio da Madeira

Formerly: Estádio Eng.º Rui Alves
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Nacional's ground sits high above Funchal in Choupana, and locally people still call it just that — Choupana . It opened under club president Rui Alves, whose name it carried at first, and for its early years it was barely half a stadium: a single East Stand, room for around 2,500, built with money from the regional government of Madeira.

That changed in 2007. A €20 million rebuild added a fully covered West Stand and twenty VIP boxes, taking the capacity to 5,200.

The first competitive match on the site had come years earlier, in February 1999, when Nacional beat Amora 3–0 in the II Divisão B. European football arrived in 2009, when Zenit St Petersburg visited in the UEFA Europa League play-offs and Nacional won 4–3 to reach the group stage. In 2015 the ground held the first leg of the Taça de Portugal semi-final against Sporting CP, drawn 2–2.

The weather is less kind: the storm Emília damaged the scoreboard in 2018.