Audi sports park
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 Ingolstadt , Germany
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| Coordinates | 48 ° 44 ′ 44 " N , 11 ° 29 ′ 6" E |
| owner | Audi Immobilien Verwaltung GmbH |
| operator | FC Ingolstadt 04 stadium operator GmbH |
| start of building | May 22, 2009 |
| opening | July 24, 2010 |
| First game | FC Ingolstadt 04 - Karlsruher SC 2-0 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| costs | approx. 20 million euros |
| architect | assmann architects GmbH, Dortmund (formerly arteplan GmbH) |
| capacity | 15,200 seats |
| Capacity (internat.) | 12,000 seats |
| playing area | 105 m × 68 m |
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Audi Sportpark is the name of a football stadium in Ingolstadt on the former Bayernoil site. It is located in the southeast of the city of Ingolstadt in the direction of Manching . The stadium is owned by Audi Immobilien Verwaltung GmbH, a subsidiary of Audi AG . The main user is the third division soccer club FC Ingolstadt 04 . The sports park offers 15,200 places (9,200 seats and 6,000 standing places). 12,000 spectators are admitted to international games.
The Audi Sportpark is one of three large football stadiums in Ingolstadt , along with the ESV stadium in the Southeast district sports facility and the Mitte district sports facility (MTV stadium) . The cost of construction was around 20 million euros. The Ingolstadt structural engineer Michael Heubl was responsible for the static management of the football stadium.
history
When FC Ingolstadt 04, founded on February 5, 2004 from the soccer departments of MTV and ESV Ingolstadt, set its sights on qualifying for the new 3rd soccer league in the 2007/08 season , the club already knew that a move from MTV in the ESV stadium was inevitable. For the old MTV stadium, the requirements of the German Football Association were too high for the new division. When, at the end of the season, they even made it to the 2nd Bundesliga , the DFL itself only granted a two-year special permit to a converted ESV stadium (which was renamed the Tuja stadium after the renovation ).
The club therefore needed a new stadium until the 2010/11 season if it wanted to establish itself in the 2nd Bundesliga. On June 12, 2008 it was decided that the necessary new venue would actually be built. A plot of land on the former Bayernoil refinery site was planned. Initially, construction costs of around 24 million euros were estimated, which the association, with its main sponsor Audi, was to raise itself. The city of Ingolstadt was responsible for the traffic infrastructure development of the stadium. In addition to the stadium, the construction of two training grounds for the complex provisionally known as the Audi Sportpark was also planned.
At the beginning of July, the responsible district government of Upper Bavaria initiated a so-called spatial planning procedure for the property. Within this procedure it should be examined to what extent the stadium construction will affect nature, water management and road construction. For this purpose, specialist authorities and affected communities were heard. The process was completed in early October and the district government gave the go-ahead for the project. A total of 43 clubs, associations, authorities and municipalities were heard.
At the end of November 2008, however, a dispute broke out between the city, which wanted to buy the stadium property, and the previous owner Bayernoil over the remediation of the site's contaminated sites . According to an initial draft contract, the company only wanted to carry out the redevelopment within the minimum legal requirements, but the city feared further contaminated sites in deeper layers of the earth. In addition, a clause was intended to grant Bayernoil exclusive building rights, and the company wanted to prohibit the city from tendering an alternative location as a building plot.
After the two parties had come closer again in mid-January 2009, a final agreement was reached in early February 2009. This stipulated that Bayernoil would pay for the renovation of the entire property without a time limit. The city kept the original location for the new stadium. The city council quickly approved the new contract, so that the club and the Hellmich group of companies were able to present the owner of the new arena just one day later .
Accordingly, construction should begin in May 2009 so that a 15,000-seat stadium could be built on the former refinery site by July 2010. The number consists of 9,000 seats and 6,000 standing places. The new home of FC Ingolstadt was built in such a way that it can be expanded if necessary. In the first stage of expansion to 22,000 spectators, the roof could be raised and three to four additional stands could be installed. For a further expansion to 30,000 spectators, the club would have to completely remove the roof and build a larger one. In addition to the stadium and the two training fields, the construction of further football fields for the second team and the youth of the club is planned for the future.
The groundbreaking then took place as planned on May 22, 2009 in a solemn ceremony in which the club's management and representatives of the city and local politics were present. From that day on, the club had 14 months until the new home of FC 04 should be completed. After the civil engineering work was completed, the first concrete parts could be seen growing upwards on the construction site at the end of August 2009.
The foundation stone for the arena was laid in November 2009. By then, the work on the south and east stands had also been completely completed. The harsh winter only slightly delayed the schedule for the construction work: in December, those responsible were already pouring concrete on the second floor of the stadium and in January 2010 the shell could be completed. The roofs of the south stand and the back straight have already been completed. This was followed by construction work in and on the functional building and in the kiosks around the Audi Sports Park.
On June 17 and 18, 2010, the last section was delivered with the lawn. Once it was moved, the project was completed and the stadium was officially opened on July 24th. As part of the opening ceremony, there was also a blitz tournament that VfL Wolfsburg won. Other participants were hosts FC Ingolstadt and FC Augsburg .
On May 21, 2011, the German women's national team beat the North Korean women's national team 2-0 - the first of four international matches (as an endurance test) before the domestic World Cup .
In spring 2013 Audi Immobilien Verwaltung GmbH took over Peter Jackwerth's shares in FC Ingolstadt 04 Stadionbetreiber GmbH.
International matches
| date | Home team | Result | Visiting team | occasion | spectator |
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| Sep 7 2010 |
Germany U-21
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3-0 |
 Northern Ireland U-21
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EM 2011, qualification | 5,440 |
| May 21, 2011 |
Germany (women)
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2-0 |
 North Korea (women)
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Friendly match | 8,756 |
| Oct 6, 2011 |
Germany U-21
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3-0 |
 Bosnia-Herzegovina U-21
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EM 2013, qualification | 4,192 |
| 5th June 2012 |
 Turkey
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2-0 |
 Ukraine
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Friendly match | 11,000 |
| Sep 10 2014 |
Germany U-17
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3: 3 |
 Netherlands U-17
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Friendly match | 2,500 |
| Nov 13, 2014 |
Germany U-21
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3: 1 |
Netherlands U-21
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Friendly match | 3,068 |
| Oct 7, 2016 |
Germany U-21
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4: 3 |
 Russia U-21
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EM 2017, qualification | 7,043 |
| 16 Sep 2017 |
Germany (women)
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6-0 |
 Slovenia (women)
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World Cup 2019, qualification | 3.112 |
| Oct 12, 2018 |
Germany U-21
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2: 1 |
 Norway U-21
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EM 2019, qualification | 4,304 |
Spectator seats
The stadium has a capacity of 15,200 spectators, who have around 9,200 seats and 6,000 standing places. The spectator seats are completely covered. There is a fan room in the stadium's belt, which is also open on normal working days. In addition, there are around 1,350 business seats and 18 VIP boxes for the sponsors and partners of FC Ingolstadt 04 . There are several kiosks and sanitary facilities under the covered grandstands. A large piazza is laid out on the west side of the complex .
Connection to public transport
The Audi-Sportpark is served by bus lines 51, 52, 21, 201 and 202 of the INVG :
| line | Walkway | Tact |
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| 51 | ZOB - St. Monika - Auwaldsee - Audi Sport Park | 30-minute intervals Sundays and public holidays: 60 min. |
| 52 | ZOB - Rathausplatz - Saturn-Arena - St. Monika - Audi-Sportpark (only runs to the Sportpark on match days) | 30-minute intervals Sundays and public holidays: 60 min. |
| 21st | (MVA) - Mailing - Rathausplatz - Manchinger Straße - Audi-Sportpark | 30-minute intervals Sundays and public holidays: 60 min. |
| 201 | Hauptbahnhof - Pionierkaserne - Audi-Sportpark (only runs on match days, from 2 hours before the start of the match) | Shuttle service every 20 minutes |
| 202 | ZOB - Technical University - Rathausplatz - Brückenkopf - Audi-Sportpark (only runs on match days, from 2 hours before the start of the match) | Shuttle service every 10 minutes |
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ audisportpark.de: The Audi Sportpark in numbers
- ↑ Groundbreaking: The renovation has started. Retrieved July 27, 2020 .
- ↑ kicker.de Da Mbabi rounds off the endurance test
- ^ Symbiosis between football club and car company. , sueddeutsche.de, November 4, 2013