Victoria arena

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Victoria arena
Data
place GermanyGermany Recklinghausen , Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 37 '11.4 "  N , 7 ° 10' 32.7"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 37 '11.4 "  N , 7 ° 10' 32.7"  E
opening 1920
demolition 1970s
surface Natural grass
capacity 37,000 seats
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Events
  • 1953 Soccer World Cup for students
  • 1954 UEFA youth tournament

The Viktoria-Kampfbahn (officially: Städtische Kampfbahn Viktoria ) was a football and athletics stadium in the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​of Recklinghausen in the Ruhr area .

history

The stadium opened in June 1920. It was built on the site of a former brick factory on Dorstener Straße. The Viktoria Recklinghausen club invested around 28,000 Reichsmarks at the time and opened the stadium with a friendly against VV Hengelo from the Netherlands . A year later, a covered main grandstand, an athletics track and changing rooms were built. In 1926 Viktoria sold the stadium to the city for 18,000 Reichsmarks, but retained the right of use . A year later the playing area was lowered. The earth obtained in this way was heaped up to form spectator walls.

At the same time, the roof of the main grandstand was removed and the number of seats increased to 2,000. After the work was completed, the stadium was reopened on October 28, 1928. Viktoria Recklinghausen was one of the founding members of the then first-class Gauliga Westfalen in 1933 . Two years later, the team was relegated. After the end of World War II , the Victoria arena was confiscated by the British military. It wasn't until two years later that Viktoria was able to play on the arena again. In 1954 the capacity of the main stand was expanded to 3,000 seats.

In addition to Viktoria's home games, the arena was the scene of numerous other games. In 1947, 35,000 spectators saw the qualifying game for the British Zone Championship between FC Schalke 04 and Fortuna Düsseldorf , which Schalke won 4-0. A year later, on May 16, 37,000 spectators saw the final second leg of the Westphalia Championship between SuS Recklinghausen and Preußen Münster . Recklinghausen won the game 2-1. On May 29, the second playoff for relegation in the first-class Oberliga West took place in the Viktoria-Kampfbahn. In front of 25,000 spectators, TSG Vohwinkel and Preußen Dellbrück split after extra time 0-0.

At that time, TSV Marl-Hüls still played its home games at the Westphalia Championships in 1953 and 1954 in the Viktoria-Kampfbahn under the name TSV Hüls . The semifinals of the German amateur championship in 1954 against the Phoenix Lübeck . On May 16, 1965, the Viktoria-Kampfbahn was the scene of the play-off for the Westphalia Championship between VfL Bochum and SpVgg Erkenschwick . In front of 14,000 spectators, the teams parted 1: 1 after extra time . Finally, the Bochum team won by drawing lots . Two years later , 12,000 spectators saw the playoff for the championship of the Association League Westphalia 1 between SpVgg Erkenschwick and SpVgg Herten (2-0).

International games were also played in the Viktoria-Kampfbahn. In 1953 the teams from Switzerland and Belgium played in Recklinghausen as part of the soccer world championship for students . A year later the Viktoria-Kampfbahn was the venue for the preliminary round match of the 1954 UEFA youth tournament between Hungary and Northern Ireland (7-2). Before the Second World War, international athletics competitions were held in the Viktoria-Kampfbahn, in which Hubert Houben and Otto Peltzer, among others, competed.

In 1971 Viktoria merged with SuS Recklinghausen to form SC Recklinghausen . The Viktoria-Kampfbahn was then abandoned, but was still in use until the early 1980s. In 1984 the new Knappschaftskrankenhaus Recklinghausen was opened on the grounds of the stadium .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Werner Skrentny (Hrsg.): The big book of the German football stadiums . Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89533-668-3 , p. 311 .
  2. ^ German Sports Club for Soccer Statistics : Soccer in West Germany 1945-1952 . Hövelhof 2011, p. 62, 65, 71 .
  3. ↑ Andy: Season 1964/1965. SpVgg Erkenschwick , accessed on April 21, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Andy: Season 1966/1967. SpVgg Erkenschwick, accessed on April 21, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Erik Garin, Tony Jordan and Mikael Jönsson: FIFA Youth Tournament Under 18, 1954. RSSSF , accessed on April 22, 2016 (English).