Raiffeisen Arena

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Raiffeisen Arena
Aerial view of the Raiffeisen Arena
Aerial view of the Raiffeisen Arena
Earlier names
  • Waldstadion (1990-2017)
  • TGW Arena (2017-2019)
Data
place Poststrasse 38 4061 Pasching , Austria
AustriaAustria
Coordinates 48 ° 14 '10.3 "  N , 14 ° 13' 41.9"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 14 '10.3 "  N , 14 ° 13' 41.9"  E
owner Pasching community
operator LASK ( lessee )
opening May 1990
Renovations June / July 2017
surface Hybrid lawn
capacity 6,009 seats
playing area 103 × 63 m
Societies)
Events
Stadium plan of the Raiffeisen Arena

The Raiffeisen Arena , formerly Waldstadion or TGW Arena , is a football stadium in the Austrian municipality of Pasching in the state of Upper Austria . The stadium is owned by the municipality of Pasching, which has leased it to the LASK football club since 2017 . The Raiffeisen Arena offers space for a total of 6,009 spectators, 2,600 of which are seated.

history

The Raiffeisen Arena is the current home of LASK and its second-class farm team FC Juniors Upper Austria . The stadium was previously the home of the predecessor of FC Juniors OÖ, ASKÖ Pasching . The facility was opened in May 1990 and experienced all the ascents of the previous club. Fixed grandstands were only installed after promotion to the Bundesliga , before transportable stands were used. Since 2002 the stadium has had a floodlight system that supplies 650 lux .

The venue has a thermal solar system that is used to generate hot water.

In what was then the Waldstadion, ASKÖ Pasching played as FC Superfund against Werder Bremen , FC Schalke 04 , AS Livorno and Zenit Saint Petersburg, among others . In addition, an international match between the Austrian U-21 national football team and the Netherlands took place there in 2002 .

On August 26, 2006, there was almost a serious accident due to a faulty construction in the standing room. Two supporting bolts of the south stand tore off during a game and the standing room in sector 18 sagged by 15 cm. The damage was noticed and the grandstand did not collapse.

Since the sale of the ASKÖ Pasching's Bundesliga license to Carinthia, the newly founded club FC Pasching has played in the Waldstadion, which made it to the Middle Regional League in 2008/09 .

In the summer of 2011, games of the men's fistball world championship including the final took place in the Waldstadion.

For the 2016/17 season, the Waldstadion became LASK's new home . The club's office also moved to the Waldstadion. In February 2017, the stadium was finally leased by LASK, where the club can play professionally until 2022.

In May 2017 the company TGW Logistics Group became the stadium sponsor of the Waldstadion, which from then on was officially called the TGW Arena .

At the beginning of July 2019, LASK announced at a press conference that the club would return to the Linz stadium in 2022 . The Gugl to be previously converted into a football stadium with no athletics track. The planned construction of a new stadium is thus off the table.

In mid-July 2019, Raiffeisen acquired the naming rights until LASK 2022 moved out, so that the TGW Arena is now officially called the Raiffeisen Arena .

Web links

Commons : Waldstadion  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LASK is the new tenant of the Waldstadion , nachrichten.at, February 17, 2017, accessed on December 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ LASK is forced to leave Linz nachrichten.at, on March 31, 2016, accessed on April 25, 2016
  3. ↑ LASK is the new tenant of Waldstadion nachrichten.at, on February 17, 2017, accessed on March 26, 2017
  4. ↑ TGW becomes the new LASK stadium sponsor nachrichten.at, on May 10, 2017, accessed on June 4, 2017
  5. ↑ LASK. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  6. ↑ No new stadium construction: LASK returns to the Gugl. In: stadionwelt.de. July 3, 2019, accessed July 3, 2019 .
  7. ↑ LASK: The TGW-Arena is no longer called TGW-Arena in the OÖ Nachrichten of July 17, 2019, accessed on July 17, 2019.