PGE Narodowy

PGE Narodowy
The National Stadium in Warsaw (2019)
Earlier names
Narodowy w Warszawie Stadium (2012–2015)
Data
place	Aleja Poniatowskiego 1 Praga , 03-901 Warsaw , Poland
Coordinates	52 ° 14 '22.1 "  N , 21 ° 2' 44.6"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 14 '22.1 "  N , 21 ° 2' 44.6"  E
owner	Republic of Poland
operator	PL.2012 +
opening	January 29, 2012
First game	February 29, 2012 Poland - Portugal 0: 0 (football)
costs	around 1.915 billion zł (approx. 465 million € )
architect	GMP JSK Architekci SBP
capacity	58,580 seats
playing area	105 × 68 m
Societies)
Polish national soccer team Polish national rugby team Polish national american football team
Events
European Football Championship 2012 International matches of the Polish national football team as part of official UEFA and FIFA matches International matches of the Polish national rugby team as part of the European Nations Cup since 2012 Final of the Polish American football -Liga PLFA since 2012 IAAF athletics meetings since 2014 Opening game of the 2014 Men's Volleyball World Championship 2014/15 UEFA Europa League final Speedway World Grand Prix 2015

The Narodowy Stadium ( German : National Stadium ), or PGE Narodowy since July 2015, is a football stadium in the Polish capital, Warsaw . It was built for the 2012 European Football Championship . The facility replaced the Dziesięciolecia stadium ( German  stadium of the 10th anniversary ), which was built from rubble between 1954 and 1955. The sports facility is conveniently located in the Praga district on the bank of the Vistula opposite the center of Warsaw, with good tram and S-Bahn connections. The stadium has a closable tent roof construction, as can also be found in the Frankfurt Commerzbank-Arena and the Arena Națională in Bucharest .

On June 28, 2012, the name was expanded in honor of the Polish football player and coach Kazimierz Górski . In mid-July 2015, a sponsorship agreement was signed with the Polish energy supply company Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) on the naming rights to the national stadium. The sports facility thus bears the name PGE Narodowy . The contract has a term until October 10, 2020 and should contain an amount of two to four million euros per year.

Data

The stadium has a capacity of 58,580 spectators. Construction began in 2009 and the official opening took place on January 29, 2012. In addition to the stadium, a sports hall with 20,000 seats and a swimming stadium with 4,500 seats will be built on the stadium grounds. The general planner of the new stadium is a German-Polish consortium made up of the architectural offices JSK Architekci , Gerkan, Marg and Partner and the engineering office Schlaich Bergermann und Partner .

Further data :

• Top category stadium 4 ( UEFA Stadium Infrastructure Regulations )
• Construction costs of 1.915 billion złoty (approx. 465 million euros)
• 58,145 seats at football events
• 72,900 seats at concert events
• 4,600 premium seats
• 69 VIP boxes with 800 seats
• 106 disabled places
• 900 seats for media
• 4 LED screens with an area of ​​200 m²
• Total area in the building 203,920 m²
• Parking space of 1,765 spaces
• 965 sanitary facilities (WC)
• 4 restaurants
• Premium restaurant with an area of ​​1,300 m² and at a height of 40 m with a panoramic view of the Vistula and the old town of Warsaw
• Fitness center with an area of ​​2,500 m²
• heated lawn

Roof construction

If necessary, the roof structure can be retracted completely. It is a partially transparent structure made of fiberglass-reinforced fabric with a Teflon coating. It is resistant to environmental influences such as rain and strong sunlight and can withstand a wet snow cover up to 18 cm thick. The manufacturer is the German company Hightex GmbH.

Construction work

facade

The old stadium was partially dismantled and the pile foundations completed. Six applicants took part in the tender for building construction work. The building construction contract was signed on May 4, 2009 with Alpine -PBG SA and Hydrobudowa Polska SA at a price of PLN 1.25 billion . The cornerstone was ceremoniously laid on October 7, 2009. Then the concreting of the first three floors began. 1000 construction workers were employed on the construction site. When concreting ceiling slabs, empty plastic containers were placed between the reinforcing bars, which helps to reduce the weight of the construction. Ten of the 19 stairwells were concreted in sliding formwork, which significantly accelerated the process. The first 35 m high staircase was completed in just 14 days, i.e. at a speed of 2 to 3 m per day. At the end of April 2010, the stadium's reinforced concrete structure was around 80% complete. On August 24, 2010, all concrete construction work was finally completed.

The stadium interior

The assembly of the supporting structure of the façade from 32 m long tubular columns that were delivered from Italy began. In October 2010 the assembly of the steel structure of the outer walls and the reinforced concrete structure of the grandstands was completed. Only the construction of the suspended roof and the finishing works remained. The fixed membrane roof enables a clear view and weather protection for spectators, enables good lighting conditions for the stadium lawn, but also for the requirements of television broadcasting in HDTV. The roof is held in place by a radial cable system and comprises 55,000 m² of PTFE-coated glass fabric. The movable inner roof consists of a flexible, translucent PVC-coated polyester fabric. This 11,000 m² interior roof has to withstand frequent folding, moving and snow loads for games in winter. The “spoke wheel” structure of the roof consists of 72 radial cable ties with a steel weight of 12,000 tons. The fixed membrane roof has 72 main and 72 secondary fields and the 20,000 m² PTFE-coated glass fiber fabric of the facade with stretch panels is made in the Polish national colors white / red.

At the end of May 2011, construction errors in the stairs became known. As a result, the completion was delayed until January 2012. Before the opening, a test international match between Poland and Germany on September 6, 2011 was agreed. This date could not be kept and the game was moved to Gdansk in the PGE Arena Gdańsk .

The stadium was opened on January 29, 2012.

Imtech was awarded the contract for the technologies in the national stadium in 2010. In January 2015, PBG demanded 131 million euros from Imtech for the need for repairs as well as contractual penalties for delays and breaches of safety standards.

Events

European Football Championship 2012

A total of five games were played in the stadium during the European Championship. These included the opening game as well as a quarter-final and a semi-final.

date	round	home	guest	Result
0June 8, 2012	Preliminary round	Poland	Greece	1: 1 (1: 0)
June 12, 2012	Preliminary round	Poland	Russia	1: 1 (0: 1)
June 16, 2012	Preliminary round	Greece	Russia	1: 0 (1: 0)
June 21, 2012	Quarter finals	Czech Republic	Portugal	0: 1 (0: 0)
June 28, 2012	Semifinals	Germany	Italy	1: 2 (0: 2)

American football

On 15 July 2012, the stadium, the NAC VII SuperFinał (also Polish Bowl ), the final of the Polish American football -Liga PLFA discharged. In front of 23,000 spectators, the Seahawks Gdynia defeated the Warsaw Eagles with 52:37 (12: 7, 20:17, 13: 6, 7: 7) points. The number of spectators meant a record attendance for an American football game in Poland. Since then, the event has been held in Warsaw every year. Most of the international matches of the Polish national football team also take place in the stadium.

World Climate Conference

In November 2013 , the UNFCCC climate conference COP 19 / CMP 9 took place in the stadium after the playing area had been converted into a convention center that offered space for three large conference rooms. The stadium boxes were used as smaller meeting and delegation rooms.

Men's volleyball world championship 2014

On August 30, the opening game of the 2014 Men's Volleyball World Cup took place in the stadium under a closed roof. In front of 62,000 spectators, the Polish national team beat Serbia 3-0. A record was set for most spectators at a volleyball game.

UEFA Europa League

On May 23, 2013 it was announced that the 2014/15 UEFA Europa League final would take place in Warsaw in spring 2015.

date	1st finalist	2nd finalist	Result
May 27, 2015	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Sevilla FC	2: 3 (2: 2)

World Speedway Grand Prix

Since 2015, the World Cup Grand Prix of Poland has been held in the Warsaw National Stadium as part of the Individual Speedway World Cup.

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  New Years Eve 2014

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  Play of lights at night

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  Logo until 2015

Panorama picture

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Panorama of the Warsaw National Stadium

literature

• Joanna Warsza Stadium X. Miejsce, którego nie było Korporacja Ha! Art, 2008 ISBN 978-83-61407-84-3

Web links

Commons : PGE Narodowy  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage for the new building
• Homepage of the National Stadium Warsaw
• Stadium on the EURO 2012 special page from stadionwelt.de
• Data on football stadiums on www.weltfussball.de
• architecture
• history

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Poland's national stadium is named after the coach ( memento from August 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ stadionwelt.de: Energy supplier new stadium namesake article from July 17, 2015
3. ↑ stadionnarodowy.org.pl: PGE Narodowy - źródło pozytywnej energii article of July 16, 2015 (Polish)
4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of October 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ podroze.gazeta.pl: Polska na Euro 2012. A co po Euro? Article of April 16, 2012 (Polish)
6. ↑ VDI nachrichten: Technically and aesthetically at its best . June 8, 2012, No. 23, p. 4
7. ↑ morgenpost.de: One year before the EM, Poland is fighting against the chaos
8. ↑ focus.de: DFB-Elf opens EM stadium in Warsaw
9. ↑ stadionwelt.de: EM stadium opens on January 29th
10. ↑ Beauty knows no deadline pressure in FAZ of January 18, 2012, page 32
11. ↑ http://fd.nl/frontpage/fd4home/ondernemen/1087166/miljoenenclaim-voor-imtech-om-stadion-warschau
12. ↑ en.plfa.pl: Information on NAC VII SuperFinał on the PLFA homepage Article from March 1, 2012 (Polish, English)
13. ↑ en.superfinal.pl: Homepage of the SuperFinał ( Memento from October 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Polish, English)
14. ↑ warszawa.naszemiasto.pl: Seahawks Gdynia win the SuperFinał in front of a record crowd ( memento from July 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Article from July 15, 2012 (Polish)
15. ↑ Opening game of the Volleyball World Cup. Accessed on September 18, 2014
16. ↑ Europa League final. Retrieved May 24, 2013