Grolsch Veste Stadium
Enschede, Netherlands
Formerly: Arke Stadion
The travel firm Arke put its name on the ground when it opened in 1998, and kept it for a decade. The club had come from the Diekman Stadion, and the move set a pattern the ground has followed since: build, then build again.
The second round came in 2008, when the Netherlands and Belgium were preparing a joint bid for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The bid failed. The stands stayed, taking capacity to 24,000.
The record crowd belongs to a league night rather than a tournament: 30,000 for the visit of Ajax in April 2012, a match Twente lost 1–2. Three years earlier the Dutch national side had played its first fixture here, against Japan. The largest occasion arrived in 2017, when the ground took the final of the UEFA Women's European Championship — the Netherlands beat Denmark 4–2 in front of more than 30,000. In 2023 the semi-finals and third-place playoff of the UEFA Nations League Finals were played on the same pitch.
That pitch was lifted in the summer of 2024 and relaid with new drainage and heating beneath it. Between football dates the ground has taken concerts, among them the Tuckerville festival. Locally it answers to another name as well — the Epi Drost Stadion, after the club's own.