Förrlibuck Stadium
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| Stadium in 1925 on an aerial photo by Walter Mittelholzer | |
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 Zurich , Switzerland
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| Coordinates | 680 986 / 249419 |
| owner |
FC Young Fellows Zurich (until 1937) Zurich (from 1937) |
| First game | May 11, 1924 |
| demolition | 1971 |
| costs | 80,000 CHF |
| capacity | 18,000 seats, 750 of which are in the stands |
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The Förrlibuck stadium was a football stadium in the Swiss city of Zurich in the canton of the same name . Between 1924 and 1937 it served as a venue for the FC Young Fellows Zurich football club . The name of the facility goes back to the field name of the same name , which means something like " hump-like hill overgrown with pine trees or elevation".
history
The stadium was built in the city district 5 , today's industrial quarter , on the area of the later Toni dairy . The location was in Förrlibuckstrasse at the confluence of Herdernstrasse, now called Duttweilerstrasse. At that time, the area was still largely undeveloped and surrounded by meadows and gardens. The construction costs amounted to 80,000 Swiss francs . The stadium held 18,000 spectators, including 14,000 standing and 750 in the stands.
The stadium was opened on May 11, 1924. After various speeches in the late morning, the Stadtmusik Zürich played with 90 men. At 2 p.m., the Young Fellows played a friendly against the Italian first division club AC Legnano from Lombardy , which the guests won 1-0. Then Lieutenant Comte flew in from Dübendorf in a fighter plane . At 3:30 p.m. the first official game took place on the Förrlibuck: the Grasshoppers defeated FC Blue Stars 2-1 in a championship game here .
Only a week later, the first of four international matches was played in Förrlibuck. Even at this early point in time, there were plans to expand by 12,000 more places. At the beginning of May 1927, the Uruguayan top team Peñarol made a stop in Förrlibuck during their European tour and were able to defeat the hosts 1-0. From 1932 , the field handball division of the Young Fellows also played their games there.
After only 13 years, however, the stadium no longer met the requirements of the Young Fellows, which is why the association sold the property and building to the city for 310,000 Swiss francs in 1937 and moved to the Letzigrund stadium . In the following decades, Förrlibuck was only used for lower-class football games of FC Industrie and other events. In August 1939, for example , the final stage of the Tour de Suisse was the destination and in July 1942 the “Reichsdeutsche Jugend in der Schweiz” held their sports festival there. Later competitions of the Zurich Merchants' Gymnastics Club and various clubs of the company sports association were held. From 1958, the city authorities discussed demolishing the stadium because they wanted to move sports facilities from the periphery to the city center. To make room for the Hardturm Viaduct , the Förrlibuck stadium was dismantled in 1971.
National team in the Förrlibuck stadium
The Swiss national football team played four games in the Förrlibuck stadium within four and a half years. Two initial wins face two subsequent defeats. The goal difference is just in favor of the "Nati".
| date | opponent | Result | occasion |
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| May 18, 1924 |
 Hungary
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4: 2 | Friendly match |
| April 19, 1925 |
 Netherlands
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4: 1 | Friendly match |
| May 29, 1927 |
 Austria
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1: 4 | Friendly match |
| Oct 14, 1928 |
 Italy
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2: 3 | European Cup of National Football Teams |
Web links
literature
- Robert Schönbächler: The Förrlibuck and Hardturm stadiums - yesterday until today . In the series: "Neujahrsblatt Industriequartier". Published by CVP Kreis 5 , Zurich, 2005.
- Robert Schönbächler: Letzigrund Stadium - Hardturm / Förrlibuck Stadium. Supplement to the 2005 New Year's Gazette . In the series: "Neujahrsblatt Industriequartier". Published by CVP Kreise 4/5, Zurich, 2009.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Profile of Förrlibuckstrasse. Retrieved from alt-zueri.ch on November 20, 2019.
- ↑ a b c d Michael Baumann: "Football stronghold". On December 22nd, 2004 on nzz.ch ( Neue Zürcher Zeitung ). Retrieved November 19, 2019.
- ↑ a b Cornelia Bauer, Hanspeter Rebsamen, Jan Capol: "Zurich: Topographical Inventory". In: Society for Swiss Art History ( Hrsg. ): Inventory of the newer Swiss architecture . Volume 10: Winterthur, Zurich, Zug . Orell Füssli , Zurich , 1992, ISBN 978-3-280-02180-4 , page 329.
- ↑ Sportchronik , Neue Zürcher Nachrichten , V. 20, number 128, May 9, 1924, 2nd edition
- ↑ Robert Schönbächler: "When the Engemer still kicked on the Toni-Areal". In: Küsnachter - Official publication organ for the Küsnacht community , 30th year, № 45, November 6, 2014, page 11.