Stadium at Strünkede Castle
| Stadium at Strünkede Castle | |
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| Westfaliastadion Schloss Strünkede |
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| View into the stadium at Strünkede Castle (2009) | |
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Westfalia-Stadion am Schloß Strünkede (until 2015) |
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| place | Westring 260 44629 Herne , Germany
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 33 '7.4 " N , 7 ° 12' 31.5" E |
| owner | Westfalia Herne |
| opening | 1932 |
| Renovations | 1950, 1976, 2017-2018 |
| Extensions | 1959 (grandstand) |
| surface | artificial grass |
| costs | 1.9 million euros (2017-2018) |
| capacity | 32,000 seats |
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The stadium at Strünkede Castle ( currently Real-Arena through sponsorship agreement ; spelling: real-Arena ) is a football stadium in the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Herne . Colloquially it is also known as the Westfaliastadion or Schloss Strünkede . The facility is the home ground of the football club SC 04 Westfalia Herne .
history
The stadium was built in 1910 in the grounds of Strünkede Castle. It offers 32,000 spectators. The facility has a cinder track , a marathon gate and a covered main grandstand.
In the 1950s, the stadium was expanded and a covered grandstand with 2,000 seats was added. The stadium was renovated in 1976.
In the mid-1970s, Bundesliga soccer team VfL Bochum also used the facility to host its home games while the Ruhr Stadium was being rebuilt .
The attendance record was set on May 28, 1960, when 35,000 spectators watched Westfalia Herne's 3: 4 defeat against Hamburger SV as part of the final round of the German championship .
27,000 spectators came to the match of the 2nd Bundesliga North on January 17, 1976 against Borussia Dortmund .
On October 24, 2010 the rights to the stadium name were raffled. The winner of the raffle decided not to rename the stadium, so the winning ticket was sold. A company based in Herne bought the lot. Until the end of the 2010/11 season, the name of the stadium was TREL RuhrpottArena .
In August 2012, Abisol GmbH acquired the naming rights to the venue, which was subsequently renamed ABISOL-ARENA . For the 2017/18 season the sports facility was named GermanFLAVORS Park . The sponsor is GermanFLAVORS, a producer of e-cigarettes .
The stadium has been rebuilt since July 2017, with the natural turf being replaced by artificial turf . In addition, a warm-up area and a small playing field were created for the Westfalia youngsters and the Herne hockey club. The city of Herne and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia bear the costs of around 1.9 million euros.
Mayor Frank Dudda handed it over on June 22, 2018 . Westfalia Herne's season opened in the stadium on July 1st of that year. The aged roof structure is to be renovated in 2019. After the handover, the first official game took place, in which the D-Jugend from Westfalia Herne played a friendly game. Westfalia Herne's first game was played on July 7th against 1. FC Kaan-Marienborn . The preparatory tournament with Hertha BSC , MSV Duisburg and FC Brünninghausen the next day was held in the Mondpalast Arena , as Hertha preferred to play on natural grass because of the higher risk of injury.
After the sponsorship contract with GermanFLAVORS expired in summer 2018 , a new namesake was found in September of that year. The Herne supermarket of the retail chain Real , the sponsor of Westfalia Herne. The stadium at Schloss Strünkede has been called the Real-Arena since 9 September .
gallery
See also
Web links
- europlan-online.de: GermanFLAVORS Park (KR) - Herne
- stadionwelt.de: picture gallery
- de.soccerway.com: Stripping Arena
- groundhopping.de: Visitor report from 2007
Individual evidence
- ^ RevierSport online GmbH (Ed.): Westfalia Herne: The stadium is now called ABISOL-ARENA. August 20, 2012. Retrieved August 21, 2012 .
- ↑ radioherne.de: The stadium at the castle will be called GermanFLAVORS Park from next season, article dated May 30, 2017
- ^ Funke Medien NRW GmbH (ed.): Westfalia-Herne stadium is to be rebuilt. August 30, 2016. Retrieved August 2, 2017 .
- ↑ stadionwelt.de: The stadium in Herne will soon be played again Article from June 8, 2018
- ↑ stadionwelt.de: Westfalia Stadium has been reopened Article dated June 25, 2018
- ↑ New name for Herne Stadium. In: reviersport.de. RevierSport , September 11, 2018, accessed on September 20, 2018 .