- Address: Milaanstraat, Sittard
- Country: Netherlands
- Capacity: 12,000
- Opened: 1999
- Main use: Football
- Tenants: Fortuna Sittard (football)
Extra stadium info – Fortuna Sittard Stadion
The stadium is the home of Fortuna Sittard, one of the first sports clubs from Limburg with 10,000 followers on its main social media page. Mark van Bommel is one of their famous former players. He won the prestigious UEFA Champions League with FC Barcelona one year after he left PSV from Eindhoven. In 2010, Mark van Bommel played in the FIFA World Cup final with the national football team of the Netherlands. In 2018, he became the manager of PSV.
Fernando Ricksen
Van Bommel unvealed a statue of Fernando Ricksen at the Fortuna Sittard Stadion in 2018. One of the stands of the Fortuna Sittard Stadion is named after Fernando Jacob Hubertina Henrika Ricksen. He started and ended his professional football career with Fortuna Sittard. Ricksen also played professional football for AZ from the Netherlands, the Rangers from Scotland and Zenit from Russia. He played various games for the national football team of the Netherlands, nicknamed Oranje. Fernando Ricksen suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and died from the disease in 2019 at the age of 43.
