Sparta Stadium Het Kasteel

Sparta Stadium Het Kasteel
View of Het Kasteel
Data
place	Spartapark Noord 1, 3027VW Rotterdam , The Netherlands
Coordinates	51 ° 55 '6 "  N , 4 ° 26' 0"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 55 '6 "  N , 4 ° 26' 0"  E
opening	1916
First game	Sparta Rotterdam - Glasgow Rangers 0-0
Renovations	1998-1999
surface	artificial grass
architect	JH de Roos and WF Overeijnder (1916) Zwarts & Jansma (1998–1999)
capacity	11,026 seats
Societies)
Sparta Rotterdam
Events
2017 European Women's Football Championship

The Sparta Stadion Het Kasteel is a football stadium in the Dutch city ​​of Rotterdam . The football club Sparta Rotterdam plays its home games here.

history

The stadium was built in 1916 in Spangen, a working-class district in the Delfshaven district , as the Spangen Stadium according to plans by architects JH de Roos and WF Overeijnder. Over the years it has been renovated and expanded in small steps to a capacity of 30,000 almost exclusively standing room. After it fell victim to a hurricane and was almost completely destroyed, it was completely demolished in 1998 and rebuilt according to the plans of the Zwarts & Jansma architects . Only a small building and the lawn, which was rotated by 90 °, remained.

The newly built stadium was renamed Eneco Stadium , Sparta's main sponsor at the time. However, this renaming was soon changed to Het Kasteel ( The Castle or The Castle ). The stadium has had this nickname since its opening due to a small, five-tower building at the Het Kasteel stadium, which is why this building was the only one to exist after the renovation between 1998 and 1999. Today the building houses the Sparta Rotterdam Museum.

Today, Het Kasteel has 11,026 seats and is also the oldest football stadium in the Netherlands.

Web links

Commons : Sparta Stadion Het Kasteel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Stadium website (Dutch)
• Sparta Stadion Het Kasteel In: stadionwelt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ tst.greenfields-kunstrasen.de: Investment in the future by Sparta Rotterdam (accessed June 29, 2018)