WWK arena

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WWK arena
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Aerial view of the arena in May 2011
Aerial view of the arena in May 2011
Earlier names
  • Augsburg Arena (2006-2009)
Sponsor name (s)
  • Impulse Arena (2009-2011)
  • SGL Arena (2011-2015)
  • WWK ARENA (since 2015)
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place Bürgermeister-Ulrich-Strasse 90 Augsburg , Germany
GermanyGermany 
Coordinates 48 ° 19 '23.3 "  N , 10 ° 53' 9.6"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 19 '23.3 "  N , 10 ° 53' 9.6"  E
owner FC Augsburg owned and operating company mbH
operator FC Augsburg owned and operating company mbH
start of building November 16, 2007
opening July 26, 2009
First game FC Augsburg - Swabian selection 2: 0
surface Natural grass

since 2016 hybrid lawn

costs around 45 million euros
(with the 2nd expansion stage around 65 million euros)
architect Bernhard & Kögl
capacity 30,660 places
(in the 2nd expansion stage 49,000 places)
Capacity (internat.) 26,160 seats
playing area 105 × 68 m
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The WWK-Arena ( proper spelling : WWK ARENA , originally: Augsburg Arena , also: Schwabenstadion ) is a football stadium , which is located in Augsburg's university district and which was opened on July 26, 2009. The construction was carried out from November 2007 to July 2009 by the football club FC Augsburg with the participation of the city of Augsburg.

During the project and construction phase from 2006 to 2009, the stadium was called Augsburg Arena . The naming rights to the home stadium of the FCA acquired first the pulse Financial Management Ltd. from 2009 to 2011 and the sports venue gave the name Impuls Arena . This was followed in 2011 by SGL Carbon SE , a manufacturer of carbon products , with the SGL arena . The contract ran until 2019. The company terminated the contract in 2015 prematurely. The WWK insurance group has been the new namesake of the Augsburg stadium since the 2015/16 season . The WWK Arena contract has a term of ten years.

construction

Planning

The stadium was planned in two expansion phases: In the first construction phase, the stadium was first built with one tier. It has a total of 19,060 seats and a further 11,034 standing places. The boxes offer space for a further 520 guests and 46 seats have been built for wheelchair users. The stadium will thus have a total capacity of 30,660 seats. In a possible second expansion stage, the stadium is to offer seating for 39,880 spectators, which can be expanded to 49,000 by converting seating to standing. Construction began on November 16, 2007.

At the end of July 2008, those responsible for building the new stadium applied to the Augsburg building committee for a different external facade for reasons of cost. The glass, transparent shell should be replaced by a construction made of aluminum tubes, which can also be illuminated. A steel cable construction was also under discussion, but was rejected a little later. In December 2008, the FCA finally submitted a building application for the aluminum tube construction, which was agreed in February 2009. For a short time, a facade made of photovoltaic modules was also considered, but was quickly discarded for reasons of cost. In 2011 the FCA was released from the obligation to build a facade.

Facade of the arena in the dark: This glows in the club colors red, green and white.
Facade of the arena after a home win in the color green.

In a press conference on September 19, 2016, the association and the main sponsor, WWK Versicherungen, announced that a luminous facade should be erected by spring 2017. WWK will be the client, cost bearer and owner of the facade. The new external facade is a mesh of anodized aluminum rods. The lighting takes place with LED bars and spotlights integrated into the facade. Since September 2017, the facade has been shining in red, green and white, after a home win in green.

For 2019, renovation work and extensions are planned in the stadium's business area.

Terrain and Financing

The new arena was built in the south of Augsburg on Bundesstraße 17 and was connected to the tram network. The distance to the street is only around 40 meters. The access road was named after Kurt Bösch .

HBM Stadien- und Sportstättenbau GmbH from Neuss built the arena for 45 million euros as a pure football stadium without an athletics facility . The estimated construction costs of around 1,300 euros per seat are low compared to other stadiums.

The city of Augsburg made the six hectare property in the Göggingen planning area available and invested 13.5 million euros in the infrastructure , including a subsidy of seven million euros for the outdoor facilities and 2,500 parking spaces. The stadium construction costs of around 45 million were financed

  • with 25 million euros through funds from a group around FCA President Walther Seinsch ,
  • with 5 million euros by the Free State of Bavaria and
  • with 15 million euros through borrowing. The city of Augsburg gave a guarantee of 12 million euros for this.

In the period following the completion of the stadium, the area was steadily expanded, so that now (at the end of 2018) the office, three grass training areas, a new functional building with a fan shop and fan bar, a warehouse and a permanent sprint track are available on the site.

Climate neutrality

The arena is the first climate-neutral football stadium in the world, although the originally planned photovoltaic system was not installed. The plans for the system on the facade were dropped for cost reasons. The plans for the car park roofing failed because of the previously defined green plan. The climate neutrality was achieved through ecological heat pumps and six wells, each 40 meters deep, which generate the desired temperature via heat exchangers. A bio natural gas boiler also supplies the energy required during peak load times during a game.

For this, FC Augsburg, Lechwerke AG and Stadtwerke Augsburg received the twelfth KUMAS environmental award . In addition, the stadium was named one of the 365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas in 2011.

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Stadium panorama during the opening ceremony on July 26, 2009

On October 29, 2009, the stadium was sold out for the first time when the women's national team played against the USA . At the same time, this meant the second highest number of spectators at a women's soccer game in Germany at the time.

On August 7, 2010 the DFL Supercup took place here, which FC Bayern Munich won with a win against FC Schalke 04.

The venue for international matches for the German senior national team

On May 29, 2016, the Augsburg WWK Arena hosted an international match for the German men's senior national team for the first time , which played a test match against Slovakia as a benefit match in Augsburg. There was a 38-minute half-time break in this game because a heavy storm hit the stadium and for a long time it was not known whether the game could continue. In the end, Germany lost 3-1.

Venue for soccer world championships

Soccer World Championships 2011

Exterior view of the stadium at the 2010 U-20 World Cup

On September 30, 2008, the arena was chosen as one of the nine venues for the 2011 Women's World Cup , for which the DFB had successfully applied. For this purpose, the plans for the stadium were adapted in order to obtain FIFA approval. During the World Cup, the stadium was named "FIFA Women's World Cup Stadium Augsburg".

Wednesday, June 29, 2011, 3:00 p.m. - Group D
NorwayNorway Norway - Equatorial GuineaEquatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea 1: 0 (0: 0)
Saturday, July 2, 2011, 2:00 p.m. - Group C
Korea NorthNorth Korea North Korea - SwedenSweden Sweden 0: 1 (0: 0)
Tuesday, July 5, 2011, 6:15 p.m. - Group B
EnglandEngland England - JapanJapan Japan 2: 0 (1: 0)
Sunday, July 10, 2011, 1:00 p.m. - quarter-finals
SwedenSweden Sweden - AustraliaAustralia Australia 3: 1 (2: 1)

2010 Women's U-20 World Cup

The word “impuls” had to be made unrecognizable for the U-20 World Cup in the sponsors' lettering in the opposite stand.
Many of the games at the U-20 World Cup, here Nigeria - Japan, had a small number of spectators.
Only France - Germany took place in front of well-filled stands due to a “hiking day of the Augsburg schools”.

When planning the U-20 Women's World Cup in 2010 , Augsburg was also chosen as one of the four venues. During the U-20 World Cup, the stadium was also called the “FIFA Women's World Cup Stadium Augsburg”.

During the 2010 Women's U-20 World Cup, the following matches were played in the stadium:

Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 11:30 a.m. - Group C
EnglandEngland England - NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 1: 1 (1: 0)
Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 2:30 p.m. - Group C
MexicoMexico Mexico - JapanJapan Japan 3: 3 (3: 1)
Saturday, July 17, 2010, 6:00 p.m. - Group C
EnglandEngland England - MexicoMexico Mexico 0: 1 (0: 0)
Saturday, July 17, 2010, 3:00 p.m. - Group C
NigeriaNigeria Nigeria - JapanJapan Japan 2: 1 (2: 0)
Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 11:30 a.m. - Group A
FranceFrance France - GermanyGermany Germany 1: 4 (0: 2)
Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 2:30 p.m. - Group B
Korea NorthNorth Korea North Korea - SwedenSweden Sweden 2: 3 (1: 1)
Sunday, July 25, 2010, 11:30 a.m. - quarter-finals
United StatesUnited States United States - NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 1: 1 n.V.,
2: 4 i. E.

The number of spectators was low on the four match days, with the exception of the game between France and Germany:

  • Wednesday, July 14th: 2,400 spectators
  • Saturday 17th July: 3,100 spectators
  • Tuesday, July 20: 26,273 spectators ("hiking day" of the Augsburg schools in the stadium)
  • Sunday, July 25th: 7,135 spectators

For the matchday with the last group game of the German team against France, no more tickets were freely available at the beginning of July. Still, the stadium wasn't full.

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Panorama shot during the 2010 U-20 Women's World Cup, shortly before the start of the group match between Nigeria and Japan

Helmut Haller monument

Helmut Haller monument in front of the stadium

On the occasion of the friendly match between FC Augsburg and FC Toulouse (5: 0) on August 1, 2015, a memorial for Helmut Haller was unveiled behind the standing room north face in the presence of club president Klaus Hofmann, managing director Peter Bircks, former teammates and many fans. The statue is the work of the sculptor Wolfgang Auer from Friedberg . It shows Helmut Haller in the shooting position. The idea came from FCA fans after the native of Augsburg, one of the best players of the 1960s and 1970s, passed away in October 2012. They collected around 25,000 euros for the bronze statue, which is more than two meters tall and weighs almost five tons . The sum was raised through donations, auctions and the sale of Haller fan shirts.

See also

Web links

Commons : WWK Arena  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fcaugsburg.de: impuls arena becomes SGL Arena Article from May 10, 2011
  2. ↑ fcaugsburg.de: The SGL-Arena will be called WWK-Arena in the future Article dated July 1, 2015
  3. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: "FCA submits building application for aluminum pipe construction"
  4. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: "All clear for the aluminum tubes" from February 13, 2009
  5. ↑ http://fcaugsburg.de/cms/website.php?id=/index/aktuell/news/data15201.htm
  6. ↑ 16/17 // Press conference // Presentation of the stadium facade. YouTube, accessed September 19, 2016 .
  7. ↑ WWKVersicherungen: The new facade of the WWK ARENA. September 19, 2017. Retrieved September 26, 2017 .
  8. ↑ a b Stones instead of legs: This is how FC Augsburg invests in its future , Augsburger Allgemeine from August 24, 2018; Accessed December 26, 2018
  9. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine of November 26, 2009: Impulse Arena commemorates sports pioneers (PDF; 1.3 MB)
  10. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine from February 25, 2010: Göggingen has become bigger (PDF; 572 kB)
  11. ↑ Numbers, data and facts about the impulse arena augsburger-allgemeine.de, July 16, 2009
  12. ↑ New stadium is getting closer stadionwelt.de, December 15, 2006
  13. ↑ Lechwerke AG: Presentation on the climate neutrality of the impuls arena ( memento of the original from September 24, 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. (PDF; 2.4 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gemeindezeitung.de
  14. ^ Agency for Renewable Energy: Bundesliga winter break: Renewable energies stay on the ball. Press release of December 29, 2014
  15. ↑ PDF at fcaugsburg.de
  16. ↑ Germany - Land of Ideas: SGL arena - CO2-neutral soccer stadium  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 17, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.land-der-ideen.de  
  17. ↑ 0: 1 lost against USA - many fans won
  18. ^ Supercup in Augsburg , kicker.de from May 4, 2010; Accessed May 4, 2010
  19. ↑ cfl: DFB team tests in Augsburg and Gelsenkirchen. In: kicker online. Olympia Verlag GmbH, January 20, 2016, accessed on January 20, 2016 .
  20. ^ Page of the DFB on the World Cup stadium in Augsburg ( Memento from October 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
  21. ↑ augsburger-allgemeine.de: Monument for an idol: Haller statue at the stadium reveals article from August 1, 2015
  22. ↑ augsburger-allgemeine.de: Haller is the focus of article from August 3, 2015