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Beşiktaş JK, one of the top soccer teams in Turkey, opens the doors to its home stadium in Istanbul, the Vodafone Park Stadium, with a tour which you can attend thanks to the Istanbul Tourist Pass.
Get access to private areas of the stadium, learn about the glorious history of the successful soccer team, and enjoy an unbelievable experience that many would only dream of. With the guided tour, you will visit the press tribune, the press lounge, the management hall, the press conference room, the locker rooms of Beşiktaş JK, the soccer field and more!
It's definitely an experience to tell your friends about!
Vodafone Park Stadium is in a great location, very close to Dolmabahçe Palace and the shore of the Bosphorus Strait, so you can plan a full day of sightseeing around your Besiktaş stadium tour!
An amazing tour on the days when there are no soccer matches in the stadium. The tour is in Turkish, but you can rent audio-guides at the stadium. No reservation required in advance.
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Every day at 10:30, 12:00, 14:00, 15:15, 16:30, 17:45, except on the dates mentioned in the Remember section. Click here to find the available dates for the next 2 weeks.
The Vodafone Park Stadium is located between the Kabataş tram station and the Dolmabahçe Palace.
Football is the most popular and most watched sport branch in Turkey. There are many big sports clubs and there are millions of people supporting them. Besiktas Gymnastics Club is one of the biggest sports clubs of Turkey and is one of the long-established ones of Istanbul. It was found in 1903, when there were no big stadiums that pursue football activities. Besiktas supporters and the members of Besiktas football team liken the stadium with the concept of home and call it by the name “Eagle’s Nest” since Besiktas team is identified with black eagles. It is not hard to guess that the stadium located in the Besiktas district of Istanbul is very significant and valuable to the residents of Besiktas. It has an unstable story but also a glorious one. It witnessed many breath-taking moments in the history of football in Turkey as well as many unbelievable stage performances by globally famous artist. Seeing Besiktas JK Stadium and not discovering Besiktas in its entirety would be a shame therefore we prepared you a humble advice on what to do in Besiktas alongside with information on the stadium.
In 1939, by Turkish architects’ cooperation
with invited architects from Italy initiated the project of a stadium, on the
area which was used as the Dolmabahce Palace’s horse stables before. These were
the ground works for Inonu Stadium. Unfortunately, the conditions as results of
the Second World War, inhibited the construction. In 1943, it was reinitiated.
It took 4 years to build the stadium and on 27 November 1947 it was opened.
Later the name Inonu, which was the name of Ataturk’s brother in arms and the
first president of the republic was eliminated because of the political
conflicts.
When it was first open it had the capacity to
host 16 thousand people because the aim for the construction was to be
aesthetic rather than seating thousands of people. However, when the number of
supporters enlarged in big numbers through the years, in 1950 they had to add
5000 seats more. Later it reached 41.000 people capacity by further additions
and adjustments.
After the final restorations in 2004, even
though the stadium was considered as a football sanctuary, almost like a sacred
place for the supporters, building a new stadium from scratch became an issue.
Finally, in 2013 the foundations were established to build a new stadium and on
10th of November 2016 the stadium began functioning under the name
of Vodafone Arena.
By having the Istanbul Tourist Pass®, you can visit more than 60+ attractions in Istanbul. You can save huge amount of time and money by not waiting in the long queues or paying fees at the entrances of the museums or for other facilities and activities. You can buy the Istanbul Tourist Pass®️ for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 or 10 days. So many attractions are available with Istanbul Tourist Pass®️ such as Topkapı Palace, Hagia Sophia, Dolmabahçe Palace, Sapanca Lake daily tour, Dinner on the Bosphorus, Istanbul Airport Shuttle etc. included in the pass. For more details and updated attractions available with the pass can be found on website.
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