VfL stadium on Elsterweg
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 Wolfsburg , Germany
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 25 '31.4 " N , 10 ° 47' 57.8" E |
| opening | October 10, 1947 |
| Renovations | 1961, 1997 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 17,600 seats |
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The VfL stadium on Elsterweg is a football stadium with a six-lane athletics facility in Wolfsburg . The stadium was the venue for the VfL Wolfsburg football team until 2002 and the home of the VfL women's and second men's teams until the end of 2014 and has space for 17,600 spectators.
history
Around 1940, a sports field was built east of the school in the city of the KdF-Wagen . In its place, the stadium was inaugurated on October 10, 1947 and became the new home of the first men's team at VfL. On May 1, 1961, the newly built, covered main grandstand was inaugurated. It was built from concrete elements according to the plans of the Wolfsburg architect Hans Tiedemann, the construction costs of 720,000 DM were shared by the city of Wolfsburg and the Volkswagen factory.
After the VfL men were promoted to the Bundesliga in 1997 , the stadium was renovated and expanded to a capacity of 21,600 seats. Due to the completion of the Volkswagen Arena , the last game of the first men's soccer team took place in the VfL Stadium on November 23, 2002. After the VfL professionals moved to the new venue, the stadium was reduced to a capacity of 17,600 spectators (12,500 seats).
Since then, the women's team ( Bundesliga ) and the second men's team ( Regionalliga Nord ) have played in the VfL Stadium. Furthermore, the second women's team plays their home games on one of the side courts of the VfL stadium. The arena was one of the largest stadiums in the women's Bundesliga.
On October 25, 2001, the German women's national team played against the selection of Portugal as part of the World Cup qualification . In the 9-0 victory of the DFB-Elf, Conny Pohlers became the first German player to score five goals in an international match.
In addition to the individual soccer teams of VfL Wolfsburg, the athletics department VfL Wolfsburg eV - Athletics uses the stadium.
future
When VfL Wolfsburg-Fußball GmbH built a second, small football arena for 5,200 spectators for the U23s, U19s and the wolves in the Allerpark , the old stadium on Elsterweg lost its importance from the end of 2014. The AOK Stadium was opened in January 2015.
It is not yet clear what the future will look like on Elsterweg, because the site is in need of renovation worth millions; a multi-purpose hall could possibly be built here into which the listed grandstand could be integrated.
literature
- Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. 1st edition 2011. ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , p. 98.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfsburger Nachrichten of April 9, 2016, p. 20
- ↑ Wolfsburger Nachrichten of March 12, 2016, p. 15
- ↑ vfl-wolfsburg.de: Stadium capacity ( Memento from August 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ AOK Stadium. VfL Wolfsburg , accessed on June 15, 2014 .
- ↑ Plans for Elsterweg: multifunctional hall in the VfL stadium?
- ↑ From the meadow to the NLZ - the wolves' sports facilities