Danube Stadium
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| Game on August 12, 2007 between SSV Ulm 1846 and SV Waldhof Mannheim | |
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| place | Stadionstrasse 5 89073 Ulm , Germany
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| Coordinates | 48 ° 24 '16.2 " N , 10 ° 0' 34.4" E |
| owner | City of Ulm |
| opening | 1925 |
| Renovations | 1952 (construction of new main grandstand) 1988 (general renovation) |
| Extensions | 1999 (construction of the back straight grandstand) |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 19,500 seats |
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The Donaustadion is a football stadium with an athletics facility in the city of Ulm in Baden-Württemberg . The facility offers 19,500 seats, including 4,280 seats. The main stand has 1,280 seats, 830 of which are covered and 450 are uncovered. The modern counter grandstand has seats for 3,000 covered spectators. The curves in the stadium offer a total of 15,220 uncovered standing space. The stadium, not far from the Danube , is the venue for the SSV Ulm 1846 football club .
history
The stadium was the first of its kind in southern Germany. In 1925, at the inauguration ceremony as part of the regional gymnastics festival, around 40,000 spectators were counted. This was possible because at that time there was still no counter stand and the opening of the horseshoe-shaped stadium bordered on an adjacent meadow that was shared by the spectators. The wooden stand was destroyed during the war.
In 1952 the roofed grandstand, which still exists today, was built. The first changes were made with the stepped increase in standing room. In the 1980s, the benches on the main stand were replaced by individual seats and a floodlight system was installed. In 1999 a new counter stand with 3,000 covered seats was built, of which a separate spectator block with 500 seats was declared a non-smoking block. This measure was unique at the time and later found other imitators.
When the footballers of SSV Ulm 1846 , contrary to expectations, were promoted to the Bundesliga in 1999, additional grandstands were purchased that were used in three different places behind the standing room. This enabled the audience to be expanded from 19,500 to 23,000. The subsequent descent made further renovation work unnecessary, such as a new construction of the main grandstand and the roofing of the standing room.
In March 2011, the green seat shells on the main stand, which no longer complied with the latest fire protection regulations, were replaced by black and white seat shells to emphasize the ULM logo.
International venue
In addition to domestic football, the Donaustadion has served as a venue for international matches for the women's national team on several occasions . Among other things, the final of the 2001 European Women's Football Championship was held here. A men's A international match took place on June 7, 2006 in the Ulm Stadium: In preparation for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, the Australian team played against Liechtenstein's selection in the Danube Stadium ; the game ended 3-1 for the team from Australia.
Women
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March 8 2001: Germany - People's Republic of China 2: 4
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4 July 2001: Germany - Norway 1: 0 (EM semi-final)
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July 7, 2001: Germany - Sweden 1-0 n.GG (European Championship final)
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October 17, 2002: Germany - Denmark 2: 0
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November 12, 2005: Germany - Switzerland 4: 0
Men
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June 7, 2006: Australia - Liechtenstein 3: 1 (1: 1)
U-19 juniors
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12 July 2016: Croatia - Netherlands 1: 3 (preliminary round of the U-19-EM)
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July 15, 2016: Netherlands - England 1: 2 (preliminary round of the U-19-EM)
Athletics competitions
For decades, the Danube Stadium has proven itself as a track and field competition venue. In 1982 Jürgen Hingsen set his first world record here with 8714 points. Numerous athletics championships, such as the German all-around championships or the German championships , which were held in 2003, 2006, 2009, 2013 and 2014, will continue to be favored and the German youth championships will take place again in 2017 and the German championships again in 2018, including the stadium should be renovated.
Others
In the 1999/2000 season, the Donaustadion was the first Bundesliga club stadium to have a separate non-smoking block with 500 seats. This block still exists today, and this example has meanwhile also caught on in other stadiums in the Bundesliga.
See also
Web links
- ssvulm1846-fussball.de: Stadium history on the SSV Ulm 1846 football website
- supporters-ulm.de: Information and pictures about the Danube Stadium
- stadionwelt.de: picture gallery
Individual evidence
- ↑ ssvulm1846-fussball.de: The Ulm Danube Stadium
- ↑ New seats in the club colors. In: Stadium World. March 22, 2011, accessed February 11, 2013 .
- ↑ Alexander Pochert: God's hand over the Ulm Danube Stadium , on: Leichtathletik.de, June 3, 2009, accessed April 6, 2016.
- ↑ Wolfgang Scheerer: Strong New Generation ( Memento from April 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), on: swp.de, from August 24, 2011.
- ↑ Ute Gallbronner: Ulm Danube Stadium is being renovated , on: swp.de, from February 13, 2015, accessed April 6, 2016.
- ↑ Wolfgang Scheerer: Ulm athletes have big title fights in their sights , on: swp.de, February 17, 2016, accessed April 6, 2016.