Tim Hortons Field

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Tim Hortons Field
The playing field at Tim Hortons Field (November 2015)
The playing field at Tim Hortons Field (November 2015)
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place 64 Melrose Avenue North Hamilton , Ontario L8L 8C1, Canada
CanadaCanada
Coordinates 43 ° 15 '7.4 "  N , 79 ° 49' 48.3"  W Coordinates: 43 ° 15 '7.4 "  N , 79 ° 49' 48.3"  W.
start of building November 2012
opening September 1, 2014
surface artificial grass
costs CAD 145 million
capacity 23,218 seats
40,000 seats (maximum expandable)
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Events

The Tim Hortons Field is a Canadian-Football- and football stadium in the Canadian city of Hamilton , Province of Ontario . It replaced the Ivor Wynne Stadium , on the basis of which the new sports facility was built. The Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League (CFL) have been using the sports facility for their home games since it opened. Furthermore, the Hamilton Hurricanes from the Canadian Junior Football League (CJFL) are based in Tim Hortons Field. The stadium also meets the FIFA requirements for football matches. From 2019, the football club Forge FC of the newly founded Canadian Premier League (CFL) will play its games in the Hamilton Stadium.

history

The Ivor Wynne Stadium (until 1969: Civic Stadium ) was built as the main sports venue for the 1930 British Empire Games , the first Commonwealth Games . From 1941 to 1949, the Hamilton Wildcats resided in the Civic Stadium before they merged with the Hamilton Flying Wildcats to form the Hamilton Tiger-Cats . The Tiger-Cats played their home games in the stadium from its founding in 1950 until it was demolished .

On January 11, 2011, the owner of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats franchise , Bob Young, and Hamilton's then-Mayor Bob Bratina announced the construction of a new stadium on the site of the Ivor Wynne Stadium to hold the Tiger-Cats in Hamilton and a modern sports facility for the Pan American Games 2015 .

During the construction work, the Ticats played their games in 2013 in the Alumni Stadium in Guelph . In July 2013, was fast food - chain Tim Hortons , based in Oakville , Ontario, the title sponsor of the plant.

The actual completion date was scheduled for June 30, 2014. The system could only be handed over in May 2015. At this point in time, 98 percent of the work had been completed and the football tournaments of the Pan American Games 2015 could take place in August of that year. The two football tournaments were played under the advertising-free name of CIBC Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium .

Repairs have had to be made to the stadium since it opened. After 2.5 million CAD had to be invested in 2016  , another 500,000 CAD were taken in 2017 for the repair of leaky expansion joints and non-functioning floor drains that caused damage in the suites. There were also problems with the public address system . A loudspeaker fell from its defective bracket onto the empty grandstand and damaged 30 seats. There are places that only offer a limited view of the field. Lawsuits for $ 2 million have been filed by the city, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Infrastructure Ontario . The construction company that built the stadium was not prepared to comment and referred to their lawyers if they had any questions.

Around four years after the handover, the plant is still not completed. There are still leaks and problems with the public address system. The existing, regulations-compliant, railings in the stadium should be replaced with higher ones for safety reasons. All of the problems go back to the original construction of the CAD 145 million sports facility. In addition, the lawsuits submitted continued.

At the end of May 2018, Hamilton's Mayor Fred Eisenberger announced the settlement of the legal dispute over Tim Hortons Field. After two years, an agreement was reached between the city, the contractor, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and various provincial authorities, with no additional cost to the stadium to be borne by taxpayers. In addition, Eisenberger stated that there was enough money left to carry out the remaining work on the plant. After the legal disputes are over, the city can compete with the Tiger-Cats for the final of the Gray Cup , the final of the Canadian Football League. For such a major event, Tim Hortons Field could be temporarily enlarged to 40,000 seats.

Vanier Cup

In 2016 and 2017 the final of the Vanier Cup , the highest trophy in Canadian college football ( U Sports ), took place in the new stadium in Hamilton. The old Ivor Wynne Stadium hosted the game in 2004, 2005 and 2008.

gallery

  • The old Ivor Wynne Stadium in the 2000s

  • The main stand (November 2015)

  • Hamilton Tiger-Cats game against BC Lions on October 4th, 2014

  • The stadium during the 2015 Pan American Games

and display information about the image
52nd Vanier Cup 2016 at Tim Hortons Field

Web links

Commons : Tim Hortons Field  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1930 British Empire Games - Hamilton, Canada ( Memento of November 16, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  2. ^ Ivor Wynne Stadium ( Memento of March 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ New Stadium For Hamilton. In: ticats.ca. Hamilton Tiger-Cats, January 11, 2011, accessed October 11, 2018 .
  4. ^ University of Guelph's Alumni Stadium To Host Ticats in 2013. In: ticats.ca. Hamilton Tiger-Cats, November 20, 2012, accessed October 11, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Drew Edwards: Goodbye Ivor Wynne, hello Tim Hortons Field. In: thespec.com. The Hamilton Spectator, July 12, 2013, accessed October 11, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Tim Hortons Field finally finished, but Hamilton officials low-key. In: chch.com. CHCH-DT, May 14, 2015, accessed October 11, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Pan Am Hamilton Stadium. In: waltersgroupinc.com. Walters, Inc., accessed October 11, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Shiona Thompson: Tim Hortons Field needs more repairs: Hamilton councilor. In: globalnews.ca. Global Television Network , May 10, 2017, accessed October 11, 2018 .
  9. ^ Matthew Van Dongen: City of Hamilton on the hook for another $ 500k in stadium repairs. In: 3downnation.com. May 10, 2017, accessed October 11, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Samantha Craggs: 4 years later, Hamilton's Tim Hortons Field stadium still isn't finished. In: cbc.ca. CBC / Radio-Canada , February 26, 2018, accessed October 11, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Ken Mann: Tim Horton's Field stadium lawsuit officially settled, says Hamilton mayor. In: globalnews.ca. Global Television Network , May 31, 2018, accessed October 11, 2018 .
  12. ↑ CIS football: Hamilton to host Vanier Cup in 2016 and 2017. In: presto-en.usports.ca. U Sports , January 18, 2016, accessed October 11, 2018 .
  13. ^ Robert MacLeod: How U Sports fumbled the Vanier. In: theglobeandmail.com. The Globe and Mail, November 3, 2017, accessed October 11, 2018 .
  14. ^ Western crushes Laval to win seventh Vanier Cup title. In: sportsnet.ca. Sportsnet , November 25, 2017, accessed October 11, 2018 .