Wörthersee Stadium

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Wörthersee Stadium
View from Schrottkogel to the stadium and the southern part of Klagenfurt (September 2008)
View from Schrottkogel to the stadium and the southern part of Klagenfurt (September 2008)
Earlier names

Hypo Group Arena (2007-2010)

Data
place Südring 207 9020 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee , Carinthia , Austria
AustriaAustria
Coordinates 46 ° 36 '31.8 "  N , 14 ° 16' 41.8"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 36 '31.8 "  N , 14 ° 16' 41.8"  E
owner City of Klagenfurt
start of building January 11, 2006
opening September 7, 2007
First game September 7, 2007
Austria - Japan 0: 0, 4: 3 i. E.
surface Natural grass
costs € 92 million
architect Architectural firm Wimmer
capacity 30,000 seats
playing area 105 × 68 m
Societies)
Events
The Wörthersee Stadium as the venue for the final of the 2010 ÖFB Cup
West view of the stadium

The Wörthersee Stadium is a football stadium in the Waidmannsdorf district of the Austrian city ​​of Klagenfurt am Wörthersee , in the state of Carinthia . It is the home ground of SK Austria Klagenfurt , which is currently active in the second division . It offers space for 30,000 spectators in its stands. Other parts of the Klagenfurt Sports Park are a ball sports competence center , a rowing pool and an athletics facility .

history

Wörthersee Stadium I (1960-2005)

The Wörthersee Stadium was built in 1960 and served Klagenfurt's then football flagship, Austria , as a new home after the former home ground fell victim to the expansion of the exhibition grounds. The stadium, an elongated oval with low stands and a running track in front of the field, gave the club a boost: having just moved up from the regional league to the regional league, you could see A-league football in the Wörthersee stadium as early as 1962 . The floodlight system was officially opened on August 6, 1969 with a friendly against VfB Stuttgart (1: 4). With three interruptions and intermittent relegations to the second division, the highest Austrian league was a regular at the Wörthersee Stadium, at its heyday in front of a full 11,000 spectators.

After the relegation of Klagenfurt Austria in 1992 from the 2nd Bundesliga to the Carinthian regional league, the average attendance also fell into the abyss. A final highlight was the first Austrian international match in Carinthia, on August 17, 1994 against Russia , and on July 24, 1998 the Supercup also took place here. It was only after the promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga in 1998 that the ranks began to fill up again. After the merger of Klagenfurter Austria and Villacher SV to form FC Kärnten and the last promotion to the 1st Bundesliga in 2001, the crowd was able to continue past heydays for a few years until the relegation to second division in 2004 abruptly ended this last high.

Wörthersee Stadium II (since 2007)

New building for the 2008 European Football Championship

After the Klagenfurt Wörthersee Stadium was designated as the venue for the 2008 European Championship at the same time , it was decided to build a new stadium. The historic Wörthersee Stadium was demolished in November 2005 together with a block of flats, the groundbreaking ceremony for the new building took place on January 11, 2006 by Governor Jörg Haider and Mayor Harald Scheucher . The building planned by the architects Wimmer was completed by the construction companies Porr AG and Alpine-Mayreder by September 2007, the first game to open on September 7th was a friendly between Austria and Japan , which ended in a goalless draw. During the time of the renovation, FC Kärnten played in the Fischl sports center, the low number of spectators in the alternative stadium in the second stage appeared to some political actors as an argumentative problem for the oversized new building, which was caused by the short-term relocation of Bundesliga club ASKÖ Pasching to the new stadium (below new name Hypo Group Arena ) when SK Austria Kärnten was attempted to be ignored.

Officials put the costs of the entire project with the associated sports park at 66.5 million euros . One third of the funding was provided by the federal government, the state of Carinthia and the city of Klagenfurt. The land also took over the payment of one third of the city that was the builder due to a lack of budget. The stadium should offer space for 32,000 visitors for three European Championship preliminary round matches.

Discussion about planned dismantling

Subsequently, from 2009, a dismantling to - depending on the variant - 15,000 to 22,000 visitor places was planned. The dismantling should be financed by the federal government, and the dismantled grandstands used in other stadiums. Whether or in what form the dismantling would take place was unclear for a long time due to disputes about the financing, but on September 16, 2009 representatives of the city of Klagenfurt, Carinthia and Sports Minister Norbert Darabos agreed not to demolish the stadium. The Ministry of Finance still has to agree to this, as the federal government will bear the costs for further construction activities.

"Permanent making" of the EM arena

In August 2015, the Administrative Court lifted the building permit for the upper tier. This was justified by an error in the EIA assessment procedure when the upper tier was made permanent. Thus, the capacity is temporarily reduced to 12,000 spectators. According to media reports, a reopening of the upper tier was not to be expected before 2017, and dismantling was not ruled out. In January 2016, however, the regional administrative court ruled that 30,000 spectators were again allowed.

As part of the International Champions Cup 2018, the German champions FC Bayern Munich and the French title holder Paris Saint-Germain (3-1) met on July 21 of that year in the Klagenfurt stadium. Only a one-off exemption from the ÖFB made the game possible, as the first round of the ÖFB Cup 2018/19 took place on July 21 and, according to the association's regulations, no international friendly matches are possible.

The low occupancy rate - 10 events with more than 12,000 visitors took place between 2008 and 2016 - was determined by the State Audit Office with the failure to dismantle as the cause of both the construction costs being exceeded and the high running costs.

Art project

In September 2018 it was decided to set up around 300 trees with a height of 14 meters in root balls on the play area as part of the art project For Forest from September 8 to October 27, 2019. The operator of the installation is Klaus Littmann . The picture The unbroken attraction of nature by Max Peintner from 1970/71 is reproduced .

Stadium name

On June 30, 2007, it was announced that the Wörthersee Stadium will be called Hypo Group Arena for the next ten years . The Hypo Alpe Adria secured the naming rights for the new stadium by 2017. As part of the massive financial problems of the banking group as part of the 2009 financial crisis, however, was in 2010 the stadium again Wörtherseestadion rückbenannt. On October 27, 2014, the former BayernLB boss Werner Schmidt testified in court that the sponsorship at the time was for the purpose of bribing Carinthian Governor Jörg Haider in order to obtain his approval for the sale of Hypo Alpe Adria.

After the death of the Carinthian governor Jörg Haider , the FPÖ proposed that the stadium be renamed Jörg Haider Stadium.

International matches

The Austrian national soccer team has played eleven games in the new Wörthersee Stadium so far. In 1994 an international match took place in the old stadium.

Old Wörthersee Stadium
date encounter Result annotation
Aug 17, 1994 AustriaAustria Austria - RussiaRussiaRussia  0: 3 Friendly match
New Wörthersee Stadium
date encounter Result annotation
0Sep 7 2007 AustriaAustria Austria - JapanJapanJapan  0: 0, 4: 3 i. E. Opening game, four-nation tournament
0Apr 1, 2009 AustriaAustria Austria - RomaniaRomaniaRomania  2: 1 Qualification for the 2010 World Cup
Aug 12, 2009 AustriaAustria Austria - CameroonCameroonCameroon  0: 2 Friendly match
May 19, 2010 AustriaAustria Austria - CroatiaCroatiaCroatia  0: 1 Friendly match
Aug 11, 2010 AustriaAustria Austria - SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland  0: 1 Friendly match
Aug 10, 2011 AustriaAustria Austria - SlovakiaSlovakiaSlovakia  1: 2 Friendly match
Feb. 29, 2012 AustriaAustria Austria - FinlandFinlandFinland  3: 1 Friendly match
05th Mar 2014 AustriaAustria Austria - UruguayUruguayUruguay  1: 1 Friendly match
May 31, 2016 AustriaAustria Austria - MaltaMaltaMalta  2: 1 Friendly match
23 Mar 2018 AustriaAustria Austria - SloveniaSloveniaSlovenia  3-0 Friendly match
02nd June 2018 AustriaAustria Austria - GermanyGermanyGermany  2: 1 Friendly match
0June 7, 2019 AustriaAustria Austria - SloveniaSloveniaSlovenia  1-0 Qualification for EM 2020

Finals of the ÖFB Cup

Ice hockey games

So far, 2 ice hockey games have been held as the Winter Classic of the Austrian Ice Hockey League in the new Wörthersee Stadium.

  • 0Jan. 9, 2010: EC KAC - EC VSV 1: 3 (30,500 spectators)
  • 0Jan. 3, 2015: EC KAC - EC VSV 1: 4 (29,700 spectators)

See also

Web links

Commons : Wörthersee Stadion  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ winterclassic.at: EBEL Winter Classic 2015
  2. ↑ kaernten.orf.at: ÖFB Cup finals for five years in Klagenfurt Article from June 15, 2013
  3. ↑ stadionwelt.de: French Supercup in Klagenfurt in front of empty ranks Article dated August 8, 2016
  4. ↑ a b Klagenfurt's stadium can be full again. In: derStandard.at. January 13, 2016, accessed December 5, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Source: "Arbeiterzeitung Wien" of August 8, 1969. Page 14, middle - in the article "Vöest Linz is well armed", 2nd paragraph
  6. ↑ sportpark-klagenfurt.at: Stadium future: partial deconstruction to 22,000 seats ( memento of September 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) of September 4, 2008, accessed on September 28, 2015.
  7. ^ Stadium: Federal government has "no money printing machine". In: oesterreich.orf.at. July 15, 2009. Retrieved November 23, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Wörthersee Stadium will not be dismantled. In: orf.at. September 16, 2009. Retrieved September 16, 2009 .
  9. ↑ Upper tier blocked until 2017. In: kurier.at. August 28, 2015, accessed December 24, 2017 .
  10. ↑ abendzeitung-muenchen.de: Against PSG in Klagenfurt - one-time exception allows Bayern test match article from April 26, 2018
  11. ^ Financial disaster around the stadium in Klagenfurt , Die Presse, August 17, 2016
  12. ^ Haider splendor building as a grave of millions , Kurier, 6 September 2015
  13. ↑ Wörthersee Stadium: Commercial property with attached stadium , Der Standard, June 18, 2016
  14. ↑ 299 Trees: Art exhibition in the Wörthersee Stadium. In: stadionwelt.de. August 6, 2019, accessed August 7, 2019 .
  15. ↑ FOR FOREST: The unbroken attraction of nature. In: presseportal.de. May 2, 2019, accessed August 7, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Information on the Wörtherseestadion. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 21, 2011 ; Retrieved July 4, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sportpark-klagenfurt.at
  17. ↑ derstandard.at: Haider's football hang got stuck in Munich Article from October 27, 2014
  18. ↑ ots.at: HC Strache and FPÖ delegation show Dr. Jörg Haider the last honor article from February 7, 2009