Goffert Stadium
| Goffert Stadium | |
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| De Bloedkuul | |
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| The VIP entrance during the U-21 European Football Championship 2007 | |
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McDOS Goffertstadion (July 1, 2005– July 1, 2011) |
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| place | Stadionplein 1 6532 AJ Nijmegen , The Netherlands
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 49 '20.9 " N , 5 ° 50' 14.2" E |
| owner | City of Nijmegen |
| opening | July 8, 1939 January 25, 2000 (reopening) |
| First game | July 9, 1939 ANVV De Zwaluwen - Olympique Lillois 2: 1 January 25, 2000 NEC Nijmegen - RSC Anderlecht 3: 1 |
| Renovations | 1978, 1982, 1985, 1999-2000 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| architect | D. Monshouwer |
| capacity | 12,500 seats |
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The Goffertstadion is a football stadium in the Dutch city of Nijmegen , Gelderland province . It is the home of the NEC Nijmegen football club . It offers seats for 12,500 visitors.
history
The stadium, which then had 32,000 seats, was opened on July 8, 1939 by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands . At the time it was the third largest stadium in the Netherlands after De Kuip and the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam . It is nicknamed Bloedkuul ( German blood pit ) because all the earthworks were carried out by hand without machines. A total of 80,000 m 3 of earth was moved. The facility was a city project. Initially, the two local clubs Quick and the NEC refused to play in the stadium because they used other venues and did not want to pay rent to the city.
It was not until March 29, 1942 that the NEC and Quick competed in front of 15,000 spectators in the Goffert Stadium. In the last year of the Second World War , the home ground of the NEC Nijmegen was destroyed and the club then used the Goffert Stadium more and more. Officially, the entire NEC only moved to the stadium in 1961. The traditional opening of the Nijmeegse Vierdaagse , the so-called Vlaggenparade, has been celebrated in the Goffertstadion since 1952 . In 1968 the match NEC Nijmegen against Ajax Amsterdam reached the highest number of spectators with 32,000 spectators. First renovations to the stadium took place in the 1970s. In 1978 the Hazenkamp grandstand was roofed over. Shortly thereafter, security fences were attached to the stands. In 1982 the main stadium building was renovated and in 1985 a new players' home was built. On October 19, 1983, a match in the European Cup Winners' Cup 1983/84 between the NEC and FC Barcelona took place at De Goffert, which is still called the most important game played in the stadium. The U-21 European Football Championship 2007 made u. a. in the Goffertstadion station.
On January 25, 2000, after extensive renovation work, the stadium was reopened with a laser show. The subsequent friendly game between the NEC and RSC Anderlecht was won by Nijmegen 3-1. The stadium now has a capacity of 12,500 seats and 14 boxes that are separated from the field by ditches rather than fences. In addition, complete roofing and underfloor heating are among the features after the renovation.
End of November 2017 agreed with the NEC of Nijmegen to buy the stadium for 7.6 million euros . The association pays 60,000 euros a year to the city for the use of the property, otherwise the NEC would have had to pay 12 million for both. The agreement is valid until the end of 2019. The association still has to find investors in order to clarify the financing.
International matches
Dutch men's national football team matches
De Goffert has hosted three games for the Dutch men's national team.
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3rd Sep 1975: Netherlands - Finland 4: 1 ( qualifying for the European Football Championship 1976 )
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Aug. 31, 1977: Netherlands - Iceland 4: 1 ( qualifying for the World Cup 1978 )
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Sep 20 1978: Netherlands - Iceland 3: 0 ( qualification for the European Football Championship 1980 )
Games of the Dutch women's national football team
So far, the Dutch women's national team has competed twice in Nijmegen.
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Aug. 20, 2014: Netherlands - Brazil 0: 0 (Friendly Match)
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November 28, 2017: The Netherlands - Ireland 0: 0 ( qualifying for the World Cup 2019 )
Games of the 2007 European Under-21 Football Championship
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11 June 2007 Group B: Serbia - Italy 1: 0
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June 14, 2007, Group B: Czech Republic - Serbia 0: 1
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June 17, 2007, Group B: England - Serbia 2: 0
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June 21, 2007, play-off for the Olympic Games : Portugal - Italy 0: 0 a.s., 3: 4 i. E.
gallery
Stadium seating plan - Block B is the guest block
At a game
The stadium in June 2007
panorama
Web links
- Stadium on the NEC Nijmegen website (Dutch)
- Picture gallery In: stadionwelt.de
- Goffertstadion - Nijmegen In: europlan-online.de
- Goffertstadion In: stadiumguide.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ nec-nijmegen.nl: History of the Goffert Stadium (Dutch)
- ↑ stadionwelt.de: Holland: Nijmegen can buy stadium Article dated November 30, 2017