Lohrheidestadion

Lohrheidestadion
Game of the Regionalliga Nord SG Wattenscheid 09 - Fortuna Düsseldorf, August 2005
Data
place	Wattenscheid , Bochum , Germany
Coordinates	51 ° 29 '8 "  N , 7 ° 7' 7"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '8 "  N , 7 ° 7' 7"  E
opening	1954
Renovations	1992, 2002
surface	Natural grass
capacity	16,233 seats
Societies)
SG Wattenscheid 09 (since 1965) FC Schalke 04 II (2003-2004) VfL Bochum II (2008-2015)
Events
German Athletics Championships 2002 German Athletics Championships 2005 German Athletics Championships 2012 DLV Gala 2007–2010 Final A-Junior Championship 2015 Concerts

The Lohrheidestadion is a football stadium with athletics track in the Bochum district Wattenscheid .

history

The stadium is located on Lohrheidestrasse and was built in 1954. It has a capacity of 16,233 seats, of which 5,033 are seated and 11,200 are standing room.

SG Wattenscheid 09 has played its home games in the stadium since the 1965/66 season . In the 2003/04 season, the second team of FC Schalke 04 and from 2008 to 2015 the second team of VfL Bochum played in the Lohrheidestadion. During the 2011 Women's World Cup , the stadium served as the official training location. On May 25, 2015, the final of the German A-Junior Championship took place in the Lohrheide Stadium. The 3-1 final victory of FC Schalke 04 against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim was attended by 12,500 spectators.

In 2002 the stadium was expanded to host the German Athletics Championships . The renovation cost a total of around five million euros. In June 2010 work began on laying a new drainage system under the playing field, which was completed in summer 2012. In 2005 and 2012 the Lohrheidestadion was also the venue for the national athletics championships. From 2007 to 2010 the DLV gala took place in the Lohrheidestadion every year. In 2015 a new display board was installed and the floodlight system was refurbished.

See also

• List of the largest football stadiums in Germany

Web links

Commons : Lohrheidestadion  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Stadium on the homepage of SG Wattenscheid 09
• Stadium guide
• Series of images on euro.stades.ch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ sgwattenscheid09.de: audience capacity .
2. ↑ reviersport.de: U19 is German champion!
3. ↑ sgwattenscheid09.de: New drainage system for the stadium .
4. ↑ de.eurosport.yahoo.com: German Athletics Championships 2012 in Wattenscheid
5. ↑ flvw.de: No more DLV gala ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.