Staaien

The ground took the name of a Japanese wasabi grower in February 2023 — the first Belgian football stadium to carry a sponsor from Japan. Before that it had been Staaien from the 1950s until 2009, and briefly Gemeentelijk Stadion in the years just after the war, when there was little left of it. The covered stand with 600 seats came in 1948/49; standing places followed a few years later.

It has been rebuilt in pieces ever since. An old terrace gave way to an all-seater of more than 5,000 in 2003, and between 2008 and 2014 roughly €35 million went into new stands and a hotel built into the north side. That work carried the ground to UEFA Category 4, which puts major European finals within reach. The plan to extend the south stand by 1,000 seats for 2026/2027 did not survive: the Provincial Deputation of Limburg turned it down in December 2024 on zoning and sustainability grounds.

In July 2011 Sint-Truidense VV laid artificial turf here, the first club in the Jupiler Pro League to do so. The largest crowd came long before any of that — 20,000 for the visit of RSC Anderlecht in 1965–66, the season Sint-Truiden finished runners-up. Today's 14,600 includes 3,530 standing.