Camping World Stadium

Camping World Stadium
Citrus bowl
Citrus Bowl Stadium prior to an Orlando City game on March 7, 2015
Earlier names
Orlando Stadium (1936–1946) Tangerine Bowl (1947–1975) Citrus Bowl (1976) Orlando Stadium (1977–1982) Florida Citrus Bowl (1983–2013) Orlando Citrus Bowl (2014–2016)
Data
place	1 Citrus Bowl Place Orlando , Florida 32805
Coordinates	28 ° 32 '20.7 "  N , 81 ° 24' 9.9"  W Coordinates: 28 ° 32 '20.7 "  N , 81 ° 24' 9.9"  W.
owner	City of Orlando
operator	Orlando Centroplex
start of building	1936
opening	1936
Renovations	1989, 2014
Extensions	1967, 1974, 1989
demolition	2014 (partially)
surface	Artificial turf (AstroTurf)
costs	$ 115,000 (1936) $ 38 million (1989) $ 207 million (2014)
capacity	61,348 seats
Societies)
Jones High School Tigers Football ( FHSAA , 1930s – 2011) Orlando Broncos (SFL, 1962-1963) Orlando Panthers ( CFL , 1966-1970) Florida Blazers ( WFL , 1974) UCF Knights ( NCAA football, 1979-2006) Orlando Americans ( AFA , 1981) Orlando Renegades ( USFL , 1985) Orlando Thunder ( WLAF , 1991-1992) Orlando Sundogs ( A-League , 1997) Orlando Rage ( XFL , 2001) Florida Tuskers ( UFL , 2009-2010) Orlando Fantasy ( LFL , 2011) Orlando City (2011-2013 USL Pro , 2015-2017 MLS ) Orlando Pride ( NWSL , 2016)
Events
Football World Cup 1994 1996 Summer Olympics (football) WrestleMania XXIV (2008) WrestleMania 33 (2017) Copa América Centenario 2016 Citrus Bowl (1947–1972, since 1974) Drum Corps International (1996-1998, 2003) Florida Classic (since 1997) Russell Athletic Bowl (since 2001) MEAC / SWAC Challenge (2008-2013, since 2015) East-West Shrine Game ( NCAA , CIS , 2010-2011) Cure Bowl (NCAA, since 2015) Pro Bowl 2017 Pro Bowl 2018 Pro Bowl 2019

The Camping World Stadium is an American football and soccer stadium in the US city ​​of Orlando in the state of Florida . In 2014 it was extensively renovated and currently offers 61,348 places.

history

The stadium was opened in 1936 and cost 115,000 US dollars . At that time it had a capacity of 8,900 spectators. On January 1, 1947, the first college football game took place in this stadium (Catawba - Maryville 31: 6). Over the years the stadium has been expanded further, so 2,000 seats were added in 1952 and in 1968 the first press stand was installed in addition to 5,000 additional seats. The stadium experienced the greatest expansion between 1974 and 1976, when a capacity of 52,000 spectators was reached. The current capacity was reached in 1989 when a second tier was added to the main and opposite stands. The last changes to the stadium so far took place between 1999 and 2002, when new seats, a new 32.5 meter wide video wall and two escalators were installed.

The stadium had a capacity of 70,000 spectators. However, additional grandstands could be built in the north curve for important games; the stadium then offered space for more than 70,000 spectators. The last time these additional stands were used at the Capital One Bowl in 2005 (70,229 spectators).

According to its own statements, World Wrestling Entertainment has surpassed the audience record for the Citrus Bowl and set a new one. In 2008 WrestleMania XXIV reportedly saw 74,635 spectators in the Florida Citrus Bowl.

From 1979 to 2006, the Citrus Bowl was also the home of the University of Central Florida football team , the UCF Knights .

Both the City of Orlando and UCF officials have expressed dissatisfaction with the current state of the Florida Citrus Bowl. For example, the stadium does not have enough boxes that are available in every modern stadium today. The stadium is also seen by many as too small, which is mainly due to the fact that there are almost no seats in the curves.

That's why the UCF started building its own stadium, the Spectrum Stadium , on its campus in 2006 . The 45,000-seat stadium was completed in 2007. The UCF Golden Knights then left the Florida Citrus Bowl.

Although no big club has played in the Citrus Bowl since 2007, Buddy Dyer , the mayor of Orlando, announced on September 29, 2006 that the stadium would be extensively renovated and enlarged for 175 million US dollars . But it took more than seven years before the project was implemented.

After the partial demolition of the stadium began on January 29, 2014, the sports facility underwent a thorough renovation. Around 80 percent of the stadium was rebuilt, only the two upper tiers remained. The stadium holds around 65,000 spectators for sporting events. At concerts or other events there will be 75,000 visitors. The work took about ten months, and the cost amounted to about 207 million US dollars (approximately 189 million euros ). The Orlando Citrus Bowl reopened on November 22, 2014 with the American football game between the Florida A&M Rattlers and the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats .

Since 2015, Orlando City has played its Major League Soccer (MLS) games in the newly renovated soccer arena. For 2017, the move to the new is the football stadium Orlando City Stadium planned. The Citrus Bowl was one of ten stadiums in the 2016 Copa America Centenario . The South American Continental Championship is being held in the United States as a special 100th anniversary edition. On April 2, 2017, was WWE - Wrestling -Veranstaltung WrestleMania 33 held in the stadium of Orlando.

In April 2016, RV dealer Camping World from Bowling Green , Kentucky , acquired the naming rights to the Orlando stadium for ten years . In future it will be called Camping World Stadium . Camping World's payments were not disclosed.

The 2017 Pro Bowl took place on January 29th of that year at the Orlando Stadium. After three years, the old mode with the game between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC) was returned. On January 28, 2018 and January 27, 2019, the Pro Bowl 2018 and the Pro Bowl 2019 respectively took place there.

With a view to the soccer World Cup in 2026 , the sports facility is to be modernized for 54 million US dollars. The measures are intended to increase the chances of becoming a World Cup venue. The city of Orlando and Orange County decided to invest in the stadium, which was completely renovated in 2014.

tragedies

On September 24, 2005, UCF footballers were preparing for their game against Marshall University when, less than two hours before the start of the game , a shootout developed in one of the parking lots where fans were celebrating peacefully at a Tailgate Party . A plainclothes policeman was accidentally shot dead by another police officer. Another person was seriously injured. The game took place as planned; most viewers only found out about the incident after the game.

Events

There were five games in Orlando during the 1994 World Cup .

• Group games
• June 19, 1994, Group F: Belgium - Morocco 1: 0 (1: 0)  
• June 24, 1994, Group E: Mexico - Ireland 2: 1 (1: 0)  
• 25 June 1994, Group F: Belgium - Netherlands 1: 0 (0: 0)  
• 29 June 1994, Group F: Morocco - Netherlands 1: 2 (0: 1)  

• Final round
• 0July 4, 1994, second round: Netherlands - Ireland 2: 0 (2: 0)  

Some games of the group stages of the soccer tournaments of the 1996 Summer Olympics were also played in the Citrus Bowl.

Furthermore, some of the games were NFL - Preseason held here, the last game ( Tampa Bay Buccaneers against the New York Jets ) took place in 1997.

The stadium has also made a name for itself as a venue for concerts. So already played here The Who , Genesis , Pink Floyd , George Michael , Paul McCartney , Metallica , Guns N 'Roses , Billy Joel / Elton John , Van Halen , Eagles and the Rolling Stones .

gallery

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  Conference USA Football Championship Game 2005 at the Citrus Bowl

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  The Playing Field (2006)

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  The Florida Citrus Bowl (2007)

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  Wrestlemania XXIV (2008)

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  The remaining upper tier of the east stand during the renovation in March 2014

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  The Florida Citrus Bowl in October 2014 during renovation

See also

• List of the largest stadiums in the world

Web links

• campingworldstadium.com: Official website (English)
• orlandocitysc.com: stadium on the site of Orlando City (English)
• fcsports.com: Official Website of Florida Citrus Sports (English)
• stadiumguide.com: history of the stadium (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Camping World Stadium (Citrus Bowl). In: StadiumDB.com. Accessed March 11, 2018 (English). 
2. ^ History. Camping World Stadium, accessed March 11, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Orlando Sentinal Article. (No longer available online.) Orlando Sentinal, formerly the original ; accessed on March 11, 2018 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
4. ↑ Reopening of the Citrus Bowl in Orlando . In: Stadium World . November 21, 2014 ( stadionwelt.de [accessed March 11, 2018]).
5. ↑ 'It's really happening': Citrus Bowl demolition finally begins . In: FOX Sports . January 29, 2014 (English, foxsports.com [accessed March 11, 2018]).
6. ^ WrestleMania 33 takes place at the Orlando Citrus Bowl . In: WWE . ( wwe.com [accessed March 11, 2018]).
7. ↑ Citrus Bowl sells naming rights . In: Stadium World . April 30, 2016 ( stadionwelt.de [accessed March 11, 2018]).
8. ↑ Matt Murschel: Camping World new title sponsor for Orlando Citrus Bowl . In: OrlandoSentinel.com . April 26, 2016 (English, orlandosentinel.com [accessed March 11, 2018]).
9. ↑ Pro Bowl venue set for 2017 . In: Stadium World . June 2, 2016 ( stadionwelt.de [accessed March 11, 2018]).
10. ↑ 54 million facelift for the World Cup stadium. In: stadionwelt.de. August 12, 2019, accessed August 13, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Search for setlists: Orlando Stadium. In: setlist.fm. Accessed March 11, 2018 (English). 
12. ↑ Search for setlists: Tangerine Bowl. In: setlist.fm. Accessed March 11, 2018 (English). 
13. ↑ Search for setlists: Orlando Citrus Bowl. In: setlist.fm. Accessed March 11, 2018 (English).