Kybunpark
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AFG Arena (2008-2016) |
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| place | Zürcher Str. 464 9015 St. Gallen , Switzerland
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| Coordinates | 740 865 / 252506 |
| owner | Stadium St. Gallen AG |
| start of building | September 14, 2005 |
| opening | July 5, 2008 |
| First game | May 30, 2008 Switzerland - Liechtenstein 3-0 |
| surface | Hybrid lawn |
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Stadium: CHF 69.2 million . Shopping center including shop fitting : CHF 270.8 million |
| architect | Bruno Clerici, St. Gallen Bayer Partner AG, Architects, St. Gallen Philippe Joye & Associés Sàrl, Geneva |
| capacity | 19,568 seats |
| Capacity (internat.) | 17,317 places |
| playing area | 105 m × 68 m |
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The Kybunpark (until 2016: AFG Arena , spelling : kybunpark ) is the football stadium of FC St. Gallen in Winkeln , in the west of the city of St. Gallen . It is the highest stadium in Swiss professional football.
history
On September 14, 2005, after almost ten years of planning, the groundbreaking ceremony for the new football stadium with a capacity of 19,568 spectators and for the shopping arena took place under the leadership of Hans Hurni . For international games, the standing room can be converted into seats, so that a seating capacity of 17,317 is available. The cost of the stadium and the attached shopping center , the shopping arena with an area of 23,500 square meters, came to around 340 million Swiss francs. An additional 70 million had to be spent on accompanying traffic measures.
On March 2, 2006 it was announced that the stadium will be called AFG Arena , named after the Arbonia-Forster Group (AFG) based in Arbon . It was the first Swiss stadium to be named after a commercial company. The stadium, previously named under the working title Stadium West , replaced the Espenmoos , which was expanded as a permanent temporary measure , in 2008 . On August 24, 2007 it was decided that natural grass would be laid in the AFG Arena . Both financial and sporting reasons had prompted those responsible to take this step.
The first game in the new AFG Arena was played on May 30, 2008. The Switzerland played last preparation game for the EURO 08 against Liechtenstein and won in front of some 18,000 spectators with 3: 0th The official opening ceremony took place on July 5th, 2008, when FC St. Gallen met a selection of legends. FC St. Gallen played their first competitive game in the new stadium against Concordia Basel , Philipp Muntwiler scored the first competitive goal in the AFG Arena. The Betriebs AG responsible for the stadium operations announced on February 9th, 2009 that the fan sector on the Forster grandstand would be enlarged and that the stadium would have 4,400 standing places in the future.
In the 2012/13 season , FC Wil also played its home games in the AFG Arena, as its Bergholz home stadium was demolished and rebuilt. The AFG Arena was the first football stadium worldwide in which a 360 ° spherical panorama was recorded.
The AFG Arena has been renamed kybunpark since the 2016/17 season . The withdrawal of sponsor AFG became known in October 2015. The contract would have had a term until 2018. Kybun AG from Roggwil TG will be the namesake of the home of the FCSG for at least ten years.
Grandstands
The arena offers 19,568 seats and standing room for championship games. There are 17,317 seats available for international matches. 52 special places have been set up for wheelchair users
- Sector A: 3,757 places
- Sector B: 3,977 spaces
- Sector C: 5,954 places
- Sector D: 5,828 spaces
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Facts & Figures
- ↑ FCSG: Kybun follows AFG, arena becomes park. In: suedostschweiz.ch. Retrieved June 26, 2016 .
- ↑ Standing area will be enlarged ( memento of the original from July 17, 2015 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. , Message from fcsg.info
- ↑ focus-fussball.de
- ↑ 20 minutes - New stadium name fails among FCSG fans. In: 20 minutes. Retrieved May 19, 2016 .
- ↑ The AFG Arena becomes "Kybunpark". In: SRF . Retrieved June 26, 2016 .
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