Daknamstadion
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Daknamstadion is a football stadium
Soccer-specific stadium
Soccer-specific stadium is a term used mainly in the United States, Canada, Australia and South Korea coined by Lamar Hunt, to refer to a sports stadium either purpose built or fundamentally redesigned for soccer and whose primary function is to host soccer matches, as opposed to a multipurpose...

 in the village Daknam, municipality Lokeren (Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

). The stadium is currently used mostly for football
Football (soccer)
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 matches and is the home ground of Sporting Lokeren. Around 1980 the stadium could host 18,000 people, due to security reasons the stadium's current capicity is 9,560. Since 2008 the board of Sporting Lokeren has plans to expand the stadium with 1,760 places, but the construction hasn't been started yet.

On 3 March 2010, it hosted an under 21 international between Belgium
Belgium
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 and Malta
Malta
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