Energa Gdańsk Stadium

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Energa Gdańsk Stadium
"Baltic Arena"
"Amber Stadium"
The Energa Gdańsk stadium with the old sponsor logo in September 2015
The Energa Gdańsk stadium with the old sponsor logo in September 2015
Earlier names

Baltic Arena (planning)
PGE Arena Gdańsk (2010–2015)
Arena Gdańsk (Euro 2012)
Stadion w Gdańsku Letnicy (October / November 2015)

Data
place ul.Pokoleń Lechii Gdańsk 1 80-560 Gdansk , Poland
PolandPoland
Coordinates 54 ° 23 '29 "  N , 18 ° 38' 27"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 23 '29 "  N , 18 ° 38' 27"  E
classification 4th
owner City of Gdansk
operator Arena Gdańsk
start of building 2008
opening August 14, 2011
First game August 14, 2011
Lechia Gdańsk - Cracovia Krakow 1: 1
surface Hybrid lawn
costs PLN 864 million ( € 200 million )
architect RKW Rhode Kellermann Wawrowsky
capacity 41,620 seats
Capacity (internat.) 41,620 seats
playing area 105 m × 68 m (playing field)
111 m × 72 m (lawn)
Societies)
Events

The Energa Gdańsk Stadium is a football stadium in the city ​​of Gdańsk on the Baltic Sea ( Gdańsk in Polish ). It was built as one of eight stadiums for the 2012 European Football Championship . The Lechia Gdańsk football club welcomes its opponents in the arena. The stadium is mainly used by Lechia and offers 41,620 covered seats. These include 480 VIP seats in 37 boxes for 10, 20 and 24 people, 1,383 business seats and 66 wheelchair-accessible seats plus just as many for companions. Initially, construction costs of PLN 730 million ( € 169 million ) were expected . Ultimately, the construction totaled PLN 864 million (€ 200 million).

history

Construction work began on December 15, 2008, and the topping-out ceremony took place on July 24, 2010. The completion took place after two and a half years of construction in July 2011. The construction of the stadium will be carried out by the architects RKW Rhode Kellermann Wawrowsky from Düsseldorf . The Polish energy supply company Polska Grupa Energetyczna SA (PGE) gave its name on December 10, 2009 for an initial five years until December 31, 2014 and approx. 35 million złoty . Before that, the stadium project was called "Baltic Arena" ( Polish "Ostsee-Arena" ). Often referred to as the “amber stadium ” because of its amber-colored polycarbonate facade , the finished stadium is 236 meters long, 203 meters wide and 45 meters high. The property has an area of ​​about 27 hectares . The building offers a usable area of ​​36,600 m² . There are 1,965 parking spaces, including 360 VIP spaces, available. The playing field consists of a hybrid turf .

The opening was originally planned for June 9, 2011. The first game in what was then the PGE Arena was a friendly between the national soccer teams of Poland and the French . On May 23, 2011, however , the Polish Football Association announced that the stadium would not be ready in time and in its current condition did not yet meet the security requirements of both football associations, so that the match had to be moved to the Wojska Polskiego stadium in Warsaw at short notice . Around a year before the start of EURO 2012, the construction company Alpine Bau handed over the completed PGE Arena Gdańsk to the city of Gdansk on July 20th.

For the opening of the Narodowy Stadium in Warsaw , a test international match between Poland and Germany (2-2) on September 6, 2011 was agreed. However, this was moved to the PGE Arena because the stadium in Warsaw was not ready for the match.

On August 14, 2011, the arena was opened with the league game Lechia Gdańsk against KS Cracovia .

The football arena in Gdańsk is set to host the UEFA Europa League final on May 27, 2020 . In the run-up to the event, the entire lighting in and around the venue is to be switched from halogen to more modern LED lamps . In addition to the floodlight system, all lights in the stadium and in the parking lots will be converted to energy-saving technology. The upgrade increases the energy efficiency of the stadium and lowers maintenance costs thanks to the longer life of the LED lamps. In addition, the public address system is to be improved. The stairwells in the stadium will be enlarged in order to make it easier for spectators to access or drain away from the Energa Gdańsk stadium. As the owner, the city bears the costs of the measures. A further three million euros are to be invested by 2022.

Surname

The stadium project was named Baltic Arena ( German  Ostsee-Arena ). At the end of 2009, the energy supply company Polska Grupa Energetyczna SA (PGE) became the venue's name sponsor . From January 1, 2010 the name PGE Arena Gdańsk was used . During the European Football Championship in 2012 , the stadium was given the advertising-free name Arena Gdańsk . At the end of September 2015, the PGE Group no longer wanted to extend the naming contract. Without a sponsor it was briefly called Stadion w Gdańsku Letnicy ( German  stadium in Danzig-Lauental ). At the beginning of November 2015, Energa, another energy supply company, was won as a name sponsor for five years. Energa annually pays 4.5 million PLN (1.05 million € ). Since then the stadium has been called Stadion Energa Gdańsk .

European Football Championship 2012

A total of four games were played in the stadium during the European Championship. These included three group C group matches and a quarter-finals.

date round home guest Result
June 10, 2012 Preliminary round SpainSpain Spain ItalyItaly Italy 1: 1 (0: 0)
June 14, 2012 Preliminary round SpainSpain Spain IrelandIreland Ireland 4: 0 (1: 0)
June 18, 2012 Preliminary round CroatiaCroatia Croatia SpainSpain Spain 0: 1 (0: 0)
June 22, 2012 Quarter finals GermanyGermany Germany GreeceGreece Greece 4: 2 (1: 0)

gallery

  • Exterior view (November 2011)

  • Interior of the stadium (November 2011)

  • Spanish fans at the European Championship match between Spain and Italy (June 2012)

  • The facade-roof construction that merges into one another is covered with parts made of polycarbonate . (July 2012)

  • Look into the arena. (July 2012)

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The stadium during the game Spain vs Ireland at EURO 2012

Web links

Commons : Stadion Energa Gdańsk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Energa Gdańsk Stadium. In: stadiumdb.com. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  3. ^ Topping- out ceremony for a Polish European Championship stadium. In: stadionwelt.de. July 27, 2010, accessed February 10, 2020 .
  4. ↑ EM stadium in Gdansk completed. In: stadionwelt.de. July 20, 2011, accessed February 10, 2020 .
  5. ↑ No longer "Baltic Arena", but "PGE Arena Gdansk" ( Memento from December 15, 2010 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ↑ Murawa hybrydowa. In: stadionenerga.pl. Retrieved March 12, 2020 (Polish).
  7. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: delays at the Danzig EM stadium )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www2.polskieradio.pl
  8. ↑ Ulrich Krökel: European Football Championship 2012: Hope for a miracle. In: badische-zeitung.de. Badische Zeitung , May 25, 2011, accessed on February 10, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Alpine hands over European Championship stadium in Gdansk / Poland ( Memento from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ A year before the European Championship, Poland is fighting against chaos. In: morgenpost.de . SID , June 11, 2011, accessed February 10, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Historia. In: stadionenerga.pl. Retrieved February 10, 2020 (Polish).
  12. ↑ The 2020 UEFA Europa League final will take place in Gdansk ( Memento from August 9, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Final stadium of the Europa League converts to LED. In: stadionwelt.de. February 7, 2020, accessed February 7, 2020 .
  14. ↑ PGE kupił za 35 mln zł nazwę gdańskiego stadionu. In: wnp.pl. December 10, 2009, accessed February 10, 2020 (Polish).
  15. ^ Gdańsk: Już bez PGE, wkrótce demontaż logo. In: stadiony.net. October 1, 2015, accessed February 10, 2020 (Polish).
  16. ^ Poland: Gdansk stadium with new naming rights deal. In: stadiumdb.com. November 9, 2015, accessed February 10, 2020 .