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Stadion Rignaal 'Jean' Francisca

curaçaoan association football stadium

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ117715334 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Stadion Rignaal 'Jean' Francisca is an association football stadium in Willemstad, Curaçao.

History

In December 2021, the FFK Stadium was given its current name in honor of Rignaal 'Jean' Francisca who served as president of the Curaçao Football Federation for nineteen years.

In May 2022 an incident unrelated to football resulted in a shooting death at the stadium.

Events

The stadium hosts select matches of the Curaçao national football team as well as the matches of other football national teams from around the region.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Stadion Rignaal 'Jean' Francisca” is curaçaoan association football stadium. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Stadion, Rignaal and 'Jean', not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Stadion, Rignaal and 'Jean' is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “curaçaoan association football stadium” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q117715334. Authority coordinates are 12.122, -68.882. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 2022.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Stadion Rignaal 'Jean' Francisca” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.