Volksparkstadion

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Volksparkstadion (disambiguation) .

Volksparkstadion
The stadium in September 2010
Sponsor name (s)
AOL Arena (2001-2007) HSH Nordbank Arena (2007-2010) Imtech Arena (2010-2015)
Data
place	Sylvesterallee 7 22525 Bahrenfeld , Altona , Hamburg
Coordinates	53 ° 35 '13.8 "  N , 9 ° 53' 55.1"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 35 '13.8 "  N , 9 ° 53' 55.1"  E
classification	4th
owner	HSV Football AG
operator	HSV Football AG
opening	1953
Renovations	1998-2000
surface	Hybrid turf (99.97% natural turf , 0.03% artificial turf fibers )
costs	100 million euros (renovation 1998–2000), 5.2 million euros (renovation for the 2006 World Cup), 15.7 million euros (further renovations)
architect	Manfred O. Steuerwald - MOS Architects (1998) , Schlaich Bergermann und partner - Consulting engineers (roof construction)
capacity	57,000 seats
Capacity (internat.)	51,500 seats
playing area	105 m × 68 m
Societies)
Hamburger SV
Events
Football World Cup 1974 European Football Championship 1988 German Athletics Championships 1989 Football World Cup 2006 Live Earth 2007 2010 UEFA Europa League Final LIGA total! -Cup 2012 Telekom Cup 2014 European football championship 2024 Concerts

The Volksparkstadion is a football stadium in Hamburg , which is located in the Altonaer Volkspark within the Altona district in the Bahrenfeld district and is the home ground of Hamburger SV . The stadium was opened in 1953 and converted into a football stadium from 1998 to 2000. In addition to football matches, concerts and other events take place in the stadium.

The Volksparkstadion is one of the UEFA category 4 stadiums and has 57,000 seats, of which 10,000 are standing, 3,620 business seats, 711 box seats and 120 are wheelchair-accessible. For international games where seating is mandatory, the folding seats hidden under the standing room are used, reducing the stadium's capacity to 51,500.

In addition to the home games of HSV, the stadium was the venue for the 1974 World Cup , the 1988 European Football Championship , the 2006 World Cup and the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League final .

The owner and operator of the stadium is HSV Fußball AG . The stadium changed its name several times from 2001. Initially, HSV was a pioneer in Germany in selling the rights to a name sponsor . In 2015, the stadium was given back its original name by investor Klaus-Michael Kühne , who acquired the rights until 2020, as the first Bundesliga venue to be named after a company.

history

History until 1998

The first stadium in the Altonaer Volkspark was the Altonaer Stadion , the buildings of which were designed by Gustav Oelsner . It was inaugurated on September 11, 1925 in front of a good 50,000 spectators; from 1927 international matches were also held here, as well as the final of the German championship in 1928 (HSV - Hertha BSC 5: 2).

The stadium was rebuilt between 1951 and 1953 and initially had a capacity of 76,000 seats. After the Bundesliga was founded in 1963, HSV left the sports field on Rothenbaum and from then on played its home games in the Volksparkstadion. For the 1974 World Cup , a covered grandstand was built on the back straight, reducing the capacity to 61,300 seats.

Conversions

Reconstruction 1998–2000

Until the renovation, the old concrete bowl was one of the most unpopular stadiums in Germany among football fans, because there was hardly any atmosphere in its wide area. The desire for an “own, pure football stadium” and the low attractiveness of the stadium led to the “arena project”. The renovation began on June 2, 1998 and lasted until the summer of 2000. The architect Manfred O. Steuerwald rebuilt the stadium "while the game was running": the grandstands were moved close to the field. The heated lawn was rotated by 90 °, so that the west curve no longer exists. The north stand became the new home of the HSV fans.

In the course of the renovation in 1998, the stadium and the property were acquired for a symbolic mark by HSV from the possession of the city of Hamburg. The legal owner of the stadium is HSV-Stadion HSV-Vermögensverwaltungs GmbH & Co. KG . This in turn is held 99 percent by HSV Fußball AG and one percent in trust until 2020 by the marketer Sportfive , who provided a rental guarantee when the stadium was built . The stadium is operated by HSV-Arena GmbH & Co. KG . The cost of the renovation should be around DM 159 million (around EUR 81.30 million). As the owner, the HSV was solely responsible for the costs of the renovation, but there were public grants of DM 21.3 million (around EUR 10.89 million). In September 2000, CEO Werner Hackmann admitted that costs would increase significantly. Because of the increase in costs, investor Andreas C. Wankum had to file for bankruptcy and surrender his 20 percent stake in the stadium to HSV.

The conversion required a special permit from the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt (Federal Aviation Office) because the construction is located in the main approach lane of runway 05/23 at Hamburg Airport and flying over crowds of people should be avoided if possible.

Conversion for the 2006 World Cup

On the occasion of the 2006 World Cup, 5.2 million euros were invested in the installation of an electronic access system, a new press center and higher security measures. The city of Hamburg supported the construction work with 2.4 million euros. It also financed the construction of two warm-up areas with covered stands next to the stadium with 800,000 euros.

As part of these measures, the HSV also built a new training center next to the stadium and in 2004 moved with its professional team from the training grounds at Ochsenzoll to the Volkspark.

Renovation 2009/2010

In April 2009, plans were announced according to which the stadium should be rebuilt for around 13 million euros by July 2010 and increased to a capacity of 61,322 spectators. During the renovation work, the standing area of ​​the north stand was to be expanded by 3,000 seats and an additional business area with around 17 boxes was to be created in the south area of ​​the stadium. Another planned measure was the construction of a children's and service world with 2,500 square meters directly at the stadium. At the beginning of the 2011/12 season, the construction work on the standing areas and in the VIP area should be completed.

In October 2009, the renovation plans were postponed due to financial and personnel bottlenecks and a decision was announced in spring 2010.

In June 2010 it became known that the renovation plans would be postponed for the time being and only block 22 C would be converted into a standing area. The stadium's capacity remained unchanged because new toilets and escape routes would have had to be built to increase capacity.

For the 2015/16 season, block 22 C was partially converted back into a seating block.

The roof

The roof was planned by the engineering office Schlaich Bergermann und Partner and built by a consortium of companies from England, America and Berlin. The roof is a transparent coating made up of 40 fields, each with an area of ​​800 square meters.

Name change through sponsorship

The converted Volksparkstadion was named AOL Arena on July 1, 2001 , for which AOL paid HSV 30 million DM (15.3 million euros). The contract was extended in December 2005 to June 2007.

For the period from July 2007, HSH Nordbank acquired the naming rights to the stadium. As a result, the stadium was renamed HSH Nordbank Arena on July 4, 2007 . This was the first time that the sponsor name of a stadium in the German Bundesliga changed.

Due to the financial crisis, HSH Nordbank prematurely relinquished the naming rights, which were originally contractually agreed until 2013, in 2010. From July 1, 2010, Imtech was the new name sponsor, accordingly the stadium was called Imtech Arena from the 2010/11 season . The agreement was concluded for six years.

On January 22, 2015, Klaus-Michael Kühne acquired the naming rights to the stadium for four years, which has been renamed Volksparkstadion again since July 1, 2015 - 14 years after the first renaming . This makes the Volksparkstadion the first Bundesliga stadium to be given its original name back after the naming rights were sold to a company. In April 2019, the agreement was extended for the 2019/20 season. After HSV missed promotion to the Bundesliga for the second time in a row in 4th place, Kühne did not renew the contract.

The stadium was popularly referred to as the Volksparkstadion even during the name sponsorship.

Football World Cup 2006

The stadium was the venue for the 2006 World Cup . During the World Cup, the stadium was named without a sponsor name and was called “FIFA World Cup Stadium Hamburg”. For this reason, the large lettering on the roof of the east stand was temporarily removed.

A total of five World Cup games took place here:

Thursday, June 15, 2006, 3 p.m. Group A
Ecuador	-	Costa Rica	3: 0 (1: 0)
Sat. June 10, 2006, 9 p.m. Group C
Argentina	-	Ivory Coast	2: 1 (2: 0)
Thu, June 22, 2006, 4 p.m. Group E
Czech Republic	-	Italy	0: 2 (0: 1)
Mon, June 19, 2006, 6 p.m. Group H
Saudi Arabia	-	Ukraine	0: 4 (0: 2)
Fri, June 30, 2006, 9 p.m. quarter-finals
Italy	-	Ukraine	3: 0 (1: 0)

Games of the German national soccer team

The German national soccer team has so far played the following matches in the stadium:

22nd November 1953, World Cup qualification
FRG	-	Norway	5: 1 (1: 1)
May 28, 1955, friendly match
FRG	-	Ireland	2: 1
20th November 1957, friendly match
FRG	-	Sweden	1-0
May 20th 1959, friendly match
FRG	-	Poland	1: 1
April 11, 1962, friendly match
FRG	-	Uruguay	3-0
0May 5th 1963, friendly match
FRG	-	Brazil	1: 2
March 13, 1965, friendly match
FRG	-	Italy	1: 1
0October 7, 1967, European Championship qualification
FRG	-	Yugoslavia	3: 1 (1: 0)
October 22, 1969, World Cup qualification
FRG	-	Scotland	3: 2
17th November 1971, European Championship qualification
FRG	-	Poland	0-0
May 12, 1973, friendly match
FRG	-	Bulgaria	3-0
0May 1st 1974, friendly match
FRG	-	Sweden	2-0
June 18, 1974, World Cup 1. Final round
FRG	-	Australia	3: 0 (2: 0)
June 22nd 1974, WM-1. Final round
FRG	-	GDR	0: 1 (0: 0)
05th April 1978, friendly match
FRG	-	Brazil	0: 1
April 29, 1981, World Cup qualification
FRG	-	Austria	2: 0 (2: 0)
November 16, 1983, European Championship qualification
FRG	-	Northern Ireland	0: 1 (0: 0)
January 29th 1985, friendly match
FRG	-	Hungary	0: 1
September 23, 1987, friendly match
FRG	-	Denmark	1-0
June 21, 1988, European Championship semi-finals
FRG	-	Netherlands	1: 2 (0: 0)
0September 2, 2000, World Cup qualification
Germany	-	Greece	2-0
October 11, 2003, European Championship qualification
Germany	-	Iceland	3-0
October 12, 2005, friendly match
Germany	-	People's Republic of China	1-0
0June 6, 2007, European Championship qualification
Germany	-	Slovakia	2: 1
October 14, 2009, World Cup qualification
Germany	-	Finland	1: 1
November 15, 2011, friendly match
Germany	-	Netherlands	3-0
May 13, 2014, friendly match
Germany	-	Poland	0-0
0October 8, 2016, World Cup qualification
Germany	-	Czech Republic	3: 0 (1: 0)
0September 6, 2019, European Championship qualification
Germany	-	Netherlands	2: 4

gallery

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  The Volksparkstadion in autumn 1981

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  Interior, 2004

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  Bundesliga soccer: HSV - Eintracht Frankfurt , May 2004

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  Interior view of the stadium: HSV - Chelsea FC , August 2010

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  2010

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  The Volksparkstadion in August 2016

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The interior of the stadium on April 4, 2010

literature

• Werner Skrentny: Places of Passion. HSV and its stadiums. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89533-502-9 .
• Siegfried Kühl (publisher and photographer): Volksparkstadion Hamburg. Demolition, new building. Documentary portrait. Druckhaus Engel, Bad Schwartau 2001, ISBN 3-00-006915-1 .
• Hamburger Abendblatt: Only the HSV: The diamond in the view of the Hamburger Abendblatt: title, goals, emotions. Published by Hamburger Abendblatt, 2009, ISBN 978-3-939716-27-3 .

See also

• List of the largest football stadiums in the world
• List of the largest football stadiums in Germany

Web links

Commons : Volksparkstadion  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• hsv.de: The Volksparkstadion
• hsv.de: The history of the Volksparkstadion ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
• hsv1887.de: HSV stadiums
• hsv.de: 3D space search

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A new carpet for our living room ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) hsv.de
2. ↑ ^{a b} "I made mistakes when building the stadium" welt.de, February 2, 2014
3. ↑ ^{a b c} welt.de: Senate gives the green light for the World Cup - HSV professionals will soon be training next to the arena
4. ↑ ^{a b} Kathrin Schmidt: Subsequent conversion and modernization measures in German stadiums I . 1st generation (completion between 2000 and 2006). In: Manfred Schlösser (Ed.): Sponsors . Issue May 2012. Sponsors Verlags GmbH, May 2012, ISSN  1432-8925 , DNB  018278000 , p. 27 ( online [PDF; accessed August 31, 2012]). Subsequent renovation and modernization measures in German stadiums I ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ ^{a b} Figures and facts about the Volksparkstadion ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) hsv.de
6. ^ Football as an economic factor ( Memento from May 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) sponsors.de
7. ↑ kicker online : With this deal, HSV is making history. January 22, 2015, accessed January 22, 2015.
8. ↑ Franko Koitzsch: Kühne buys naming rights: HSV continues to play in the Volksparkstadion . April 24, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed July 9, 2019]).
9. ^ The old Volksparkstadion: Only the name ndr.de is loved, September 8, 2012
10. ↑ Hamburg. Play football like in a classic theater. In: Handelsblatt. March 31, 2006, accessed April 30, 2013 . 
11. ^ Arena at the Volkspark. The stadium is the star. In: NDR.de. September 10, 2012, accessed April 28, 2013 . 
12. ^ Abendblatt.de: "Legal structures of the HSV"
13. ↑ " Close your eyes and through" - this is how the stadium was built welt.de, October 28, 1999
14. ↑ Patrick Krull: “Bargain” Volksparkstadion will be expensive fun. In: THE WORLD. September 2, 2000, accessed April 28, 2013 . 
15. ↑ Exemption for the Imtech Arena
16. ↑ ndr.de: Ochsenzoll: HSV talent factory since 1928
17. ↑ HSV is expanding the stadium. Arena should hold over 61,000 spectators. In: kicker.de. April 28, 2009. Retrieved April 28, 2013 . 
18. ↑ stadionwelt.de: HSV postpones expansion , October 8, 2009, accessed on September 3, 2011
19. ^ Abendblatt.de: HSV postpones stadium expansion due to lack of money and staff
20. ↑ mopo.de: Arena conversion light: This will be new at HSV
21. ↑ mopo.de: HSV bosses decide: From now on, seats in the Ultras block again
22. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt: Only the HSV: The diamond in view of the Hamburger Abendblatt: Title, Tore, Emotionen 2009, pp. 233-235.
23. ↑ AOL: The HSV is in now , Abendblatt.de, June 29, 2001
24. ↑ HSV will play in the HSH Nordbank Arena in future. (No longer available online.) March 29, 2007, archived from the original on February 1, 2014 ; Retrieved April 28, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
25. ↑ hsh-nordbank.de: HSH Nordbank terminates naming rights contract with HSV ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
26. ↑ imtech.de: The Imtech Arena - The new home of HSV
27. ↑ Hamburger SV: Kühne gets in and presents the Volksparkstadion ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , January 22, 2015, accessed January 22, 2015. 
28. ↑ HSV and Kühne reach new agreement , hsv.de, April 24, 2019, accessed on April 24, 2019.
29. ↑ HSV spokesman confirms: Kühne and Emirates have not yet extended expiring contracts , sportbuzzer.de, June 30, 2020, accessed on July 9, 2020.
30. ↑ HSV stadium topless The sponsor lettering is from: the "Imtech-Arena" story , mopo.de, June 19, 2015, accessed on October 31, 2018.
31. ↑ A dismantling, for which HSV also pays kicker.de, May 11, 2006