📸 Europe’s wildest stadium? Freiburg spectacle between cliff faces | OneFootball

SC Freiburg are playing one of the biggest matches in the club’s history this Thursday evening. The team from Breisgau are currently facing Portuguese side Sporting Braga in the Europa League semi-finals.

But it’s not just the sporting importance of the match that puts the club on completely unfamiliar ground. The sight of Braga’s stadium is also likely to be a new experience for everyone from Freiburg.

The Estádio Municipal de Braga has only two large stands along the sides of the pitch. Behind the goals, however, there are some striking scenic highlights.

Completely crazy but true: the penalty area Braga are attacking in the first half is set against a huge rock face. As a result, the venue is also known as the Estadio da Pedreira. That basically means “Quarry Stadium.”

On the opposite side of the pitch, meanwhile, the players can look out over plenty of green grass – in case not too much is happening on the green field.

That was never the case in the opening stages, though. After just 16 minutes, Vincenzo Grifo cancelled out the earlier deficit caused by Demir Tiknaz (8). So everything is still wide open at the Quarry Stadium!

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