Carl Benz Stadium
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| place | Theodor-Heuss-Anlage 20 68165 Mannheim , Germany
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 28 '46.3 " N , 8 ° 30' 9.1" E |
| owner | City of Mannheim |
| start of building | July 8, 1992 |
| opening | February 25, 1994 |
| First game | February 25, 1994 SV Waldhof Mannheim - Hertha BSC 2-2 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| architect | Folker Fiebiger |
| capacity | 24,302 spectators 13,579 seats 10,723 standing room |
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The Carl Benz Stadium is a soccer stadium in the Oststadt district of the Baden-Württemberg city of Mannheim . It has a capacity of 24,302 spectators with 13,579 seats and 10,723 standing places. Due to obstructions of the view, 1,400 seats are blocked. It is the home ground of the SV Waldhof Mannheim football club .
Stadion
The stadium, which opened in 1994, has completely covered stands. On February 25, 1994, SV Waldhof Mannheim played their first game in the Carl Benz Stadium. The stadium has floodlights and, since 2019, underfloor heating . The Carl-Benz-Stadion is located next to the Rhein-Neckar-Stadion of Waldhöfer's local rival VfR Mannheim and was built according to plans by Fiebiger GmbH Architekten + Ingenieure under the direction of the architect Folker Fiebiger.
Namesake
The stadium was named after Carl Benz , who invented the automobile in Mannheim . As part of the naming of the bore group Daimler-Benz AG financial resources to purchase a scoreboard at. The sponsorship contract was awarded without a time limit, so that no further sale is possible.
history
The Mannheim stadium was completed in 1927 on the site of today's Carl Benz stadium . It had a track and field track, held 35,000 spectators and was, among other things, the scene of an international match between Germany and Switzerland in 1929. The stadium had one of the few 500m cinder tracks. Since the track did not meet the regulations of athletics (curve radius too large), records run there could not be recognized. In 1959 the Mannheim stadium received a new grandstand and in 1963 it was renamed the Rhein-Neckar-Stadion . In 1971 a pure football stadium was built in the direct vicinity of the Rhein-Neckar-Stadion, which was also named Rhein-Neckar-Stadion and became the home of VfR Mannheim .
The first thoughts for a new and professional football stadium in Mannheim began in 1979 with plans for the renovation of the old Rhein-Neckar stadium. After further mental games and a number of legal disputes, the demolition of the old Rhein-Neckar stadium finally began in July 1992.
At the end of 1993 the Mannheim municipal council decided to name the new stadium after Carl Benz , who invented the automobile in Mannheim. The Carl Benz Stadium was opened on February 25, 1994 with the second division game between SV Waldhof Mannheim and Hertha BSC (2-2).
Due to lawsuits from residents, only 27 events are allowed to take place in the stadium each year, so that it can only be used by one club per season. Games in European club competitions are not affected by this limit. This special regulation was agreed with the residents in 2001, when SV Waldhof had the chance to get promoted to the Bundesliga. The city of Mannheim has decreed that the stadium will always be made available to the highest-ranking Mannheim football club. It was therefore used by SV Waldhof Mannheim from the start.
In addition, two international matches for the men took place in the Carl Benz Stadium, in 1996 the German national team played against Liechtenstein and in 1998 against Luxembourg . Also in 1996 the DFB Supercup final took place there ( Borussia Dortmund - 1. FC Kaiserslautern 4: 3 i. E. (1: 1 a. V.)) and the DFB League Cup final 2001 ( Hertha BSC - FC Schalke 04 4: 1). During the U-21 European Football Championship in 2004 , three preliminary round matches were held in the Mannheim stadium.
The TSG 1899 Hoffenheim was in 2008 in the first round of the Bundesliga nine home games at the Carl-Benz-Stadion from. In order to meet the Bundesliga requirements of the German Football League , a € 400,000 video wall was installed beforehand and a further € 600,000 was invested in upgrading the building, media workstations and security facilities. As the stadium owner, the city of Mannheim assumed the costs in anticipation of a sponsorship contract with Daimler AG .
The international matches of the German women's national team took place three times in the Carl Benz Stadium , against Japan in 2009 , Spain in 2012 and Slovenia in 2014 .
On June 11, 2011, 18,313 spectators attended the game between SV Waldhof Mannheim and FV Illertissen on the 38th and final matchday of the Baden-Württemberg Football League . This meant a record attendance at a game in the 5th division. With a 6: 0 victory of rose Waldhof in the Regionalliga Süd on.
With an official attendance of 14,413 visitors in the game of SV Waldhof Mannheim against Wormatia Worms , the attendance record was broken on April 20, 2019 in the Carl-Benz Stadium for a regular game in the Regionalliga Südwest , which was a few weeks earlier on March 9, 2019 , at the game SV Waldhof Mannheim against 1. FC Saarbrücken , with an audience of 14,326.
After the SVW rose to the 3rd football league in 2019/20 , the owner of the stadium, the city of Mannheim, announced that it would carry out modernization measures by the start of the season. For example, the stadium received a new video surveillance system , a new pitch including turf heating and a modernized floodlight system.
gallery
West stand and playing field
Carl Benz Stadium
The game TSG Hoffenheim against VfL Wolfsburg (3: 2) on November 15, 2008
Otto-Siffling-Tribüne (East Stand) in the Carl-Benz-Stadion on May 29, 2016
Hanno Balitsch's farewell game in the Carl-Benz-Stadion Mannheim had to be interrupted due to a thunderstorm on June 9, 2017
Choreography of the Ultras Mannheim on the Otto-Siffling-Tribüne, May 27, 2018
Promotion of SV Waldhof Mannheim to the 3rd division on April 20, 2019
See also
Web links
- Representation on the website of SV Waldhof Mannheim
- Entry at wikiwaldhof.de
- Stadium guide
- Carl Benz Stadium - Mannheim
Individual evidence
- ↑ SVW07.de: Ready for kick-off - renovation work in the stadium completed
- ↑ Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The big book of the German football stadiums , Göttingen 2001.
- ↑ MARCHIVUM : Chronicle star . November 23, 1993. Retrieved September 27, 2018 .
- ↑ May 29, 2008 - Mannheim - Carl Benz Stadium is suitable for the Bundesliga. In: stadionwelt.de. Retrieved January 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Rise and record! Waldhof in the 7th heaven. In: kicker.de . June 11, 2011, accessed March 5, 2020 .
- ↑ It is done! SV Waldhof Mannheim is promoted to the 3rd division. April 21, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Mannheim: Record number of spectators in the Regionalliga Südwest broken. In: morgenweb.de. Mannheimer Morgen, March 9, 2019, accessed on March 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Liga.3-Online.de: Mannheim starts modernizing the stadium , accessed on May 31, 2019