Green Au Stadium

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Green Au Stadium
Stadium Gruene Au in Hof.JPG
Data
place GermanyGermany Hof , Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 18 '53.3 "  N , 11 ° 55' 52.6"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 18 '53.3 "  N , 11 ° 55' 52.6"  E
owner City of Hof (since 1980)
opening 1913
surface Natural grass
capacity 8,100 seats
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The Green Au Stadium is a football stadium in Hof . With 8,100 seats, it is the largest stadium in the Upper Franconian city ​​and has been the venue for the former second division club FC Bayern Hof since 1913 .

The stadium

Located on the eastern edge of Hof in the Fabrikvorstadt district, the stadium was built on land that FC Bayern Hof leased in 1913 and bought in 1930. The club, called Britannia Hof at the beginning, expanded the Green Au stadium again and again over the next few years. In 1949 a 72-meter-long, roofed seating grandstand was built in wood on the north side and in 1959 the stadium was expanded again. In 1969, the south stand, the so-called New Stand, was built , which had no roof for a long time.

The Green Au Stadium is purely a football stadium without a running track. The playing field is surrounded on three sides by earth walls with standing bars. In the middle of the main straight, these are interrupted by the building with changing rooms and office, to which the new grandstand with 800 covered seats is connected on the left . This grandstand dominates the standing room. On the back straight is the wooden grandstand with 1,335 seats on benches. The venue has been owned by the city of Hof since 1980 . In front of the stadium is the restaurant of the same name, Grüne Au .

Bavaria yard

SpVgg Bayern Hof.svg

The Grüne Au stadium is still Bayern Hof's home ground to this day . In the sixties the club played in the Oberliga Süd , in the seventies in the Regionalliga Süd and the 2nd Bundesliga South . The last time the Hofers were promoted to the Regionalliga Bayern in 2016 .

Attendance records

On January 15, 1961, a record was set against the eventual German champions 1. FC Nürnberg with 18,300 spectators. This attendance record was on 22 May 1968 at the Bundesliga promotion round match of FC Bayern Hof against Rot-Weiss Essen surpassed 19,100 visitors again.

literature

  • Werner Skrentny (Hrsg.): The big book of the German football stadiums. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89533-306-9 , pp. 191–192.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Matthias Hunger: Guest block: Green Au Stadium. In: Zeitspiel. # 6, IV / 2016, ISSN  2365-3175 , pp. 20-21.
  2. ↑ a b Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The big book of the German football stadiums. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89533-306-9 , p. 192.
  3. ^ History of the SpVgg Bayern Hof. In: bayern-hof.de. Retrieved December 9, 2016 .