Enwag Stadium
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| Wetzlar Stadium | |
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Wetzlar Stadium (1948–2019) |
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Enwag Stadium (since 2019) |
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| place | Karl-Kellner-Ring 13 35576 Wetzlar , Germany
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 33 '13.7 " N , 8 ° 29' 41.3" E |
| opening | 1948 |
| Renovations | 2010 (renovation) |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 8000 seats |
| playing area | 105 m × 67 m |
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The Enwag-Stadion ( spelling enwag-Stadion ), from the construction in 1948 to the year 2019 Stadion Wetzlar , is a football stadium with athletics facility (category B) in the Hessian city of Wetzlar . The facility is recognized by the Hessian Athletics Association (HLV) as an athletics performance center. It is located on the Lahninsel on the edge of the old town of Wetzlar. Until 2009, the stadium only had one main grandstand on the south side. A second grandstand on the north side has been in use since 2010, increasing the available space to around 8,000 (of which around 1,500 are covered). In 2016, a third stand was temporarily erected on the west side, which served as a guest block.
Surname
In August 2019 it was announced that the previously stadium Wetzlar -called sports venue due to a sponsorship contract with the Wetzlar utilities in enwag Stadium has been renamed. The contract with the city runs for 15 years.
use
The stadium is the home ground of the women's football club FSV Hessen Wetzlar and is also occasionally used by the men of Eintracht Wetzlar and the Wetzlarer Wölfen, an American football team. On June 25, 1955, in the final of the German amateur soccer championship in the Wetzlar stadium in front of 15,000 spectators, the sports fans won against SpVgg Bad Homburg (5-0). After the promotion from the Hessenliga to the Regionalliga Südwest in the 2016/17 season , the football club Teutonia Watzenborn-Steinberg played its games in the Wetzlar stadium until relegation after the 2016/17 season. The athletes from TV Wetzlar Athletics regularly invite you to take part in competitions in the stadium. In 1951, 1986, 2015 and 2019 the German Junior Championships were held in the Wetzlar stadium. German all-around championships, German team championships and German senior championships were also held here.
In addition to the Commerzbank-Arena in Frankfurt and the Brita-Arena in Wiesbaden , it was one of the three venues for the American Football European Championship in 2010 and in 2013 and 2015 it was the venue for international matches for the German national junior football team .
In March 2015, the DFB's U-17 national team played three UEFA qualifying matches for the 2015 U-17 European Football Championship in the Wetzlar stadium.
Web links
- europlan-online.de: Stadium of the city of Wetzlar
- groundhopping.de: Visitor report from 2009
- stadionwelt.de: picture gallery
Individual evidence
- ↑ enwag Energie- und Wassergesellschaft mbh: Customer magazine-e-Facts 2/2019 ( PDF )
- ↑ The Wetzlar stadium receives the most modern lighting technology and a new name. In: wetzlar.de. City of Wetzlar , August 14, 2019, accessed on December 6, 2019 .
- ↑ During the ascent, Teutonia moves to Wetzlar ( Memento from August 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Today Wetzlar - tomorrow Rio 2016 ( Memento from March 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ U17 nationality competes against Spain in Wetzlar ( Memento from November 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ U 17: Via Hesse to Bulgaria. In: dfb.de. DFB , accessed on December 6, 2019 .