Stadion de Vliert

The ground exists because of a title. BVV won the league in 1948 and had nowhere in the city to play; the municipality of 's-Hertogenbosch built De Vliert in answer, and when it opened on 8 September 1951 it was the third-largest stadium in the Netherlands, holding some 30,000. The sprinter Fanny Blankers-Koen, an Olympic champion, performed the opening. The record crowd belongs to that first occasion, when BVV met Ajax in front of more than 30,000.

Almost nothing of that ground survives. Floodlights arrived in 1955; the rebuild of 1996–97 took out the athletics track that had ringed the pitch and cut the capacity to 4,500. New stands in 2002 lifted it to 8,500, and the work of 2023 brought it back down again. What stands now is a compact, seated arena on Victorialaan, laid with artificial grass since 2019.

Between the two eras sit a handful of evenings that had little to do with the home club. On 3 November 1971 PSV Eindhoven, barred by UEFA from their own ground, faced Real Madrid here in the UEFA Cup before 19,286. The Dutch national side played an unofficial friendly against Kickers Offenbach in 1974, and in 1977 the KNVB Cup semi-final between AZ '67 and FC Twente was staged here.