FAU Stadium
- Florida Atlantic Owls (NCAA, since 2011 )
- Florida Launch ( MLL, 2014 )
- Games of the Florida Atlantic Owls ( since 2011 )
- Games of the Florida Launch ( 2014 )
- Boca Raton Bowl ( 2014 )
The FAU Stadium ( full name: Florida Atlantic University Stadium ) is a college football stadium in the U.S. city of Boca Raton, Florida. It belongs to the Florida Atlantic University (FAU ) and is located in the northern corner of the campus. In the sports venue, the NCAA football team of the University, Florida Atlantic Owls, their games discharged.
The stadium
The 70 million -US-dollar stadium has 29,419 seats on the uncovered grandstands. On the grandstand crowned by a multi-storey building with, among others, 32 lodges, 24 suites and the press box.
The stadium was opened on 15th October 2011 with a game against the Florida Atlantic Owls Western Kentucky Hilltoppers. The home side celebrated a clear 20:0 victory. The nickname The House did Howard Built refers to Howard Schnellenberger, the Florida Atlantic Owls built until 2011 and trained as a head coach. As Schnellenberger started work, he saw the construction of a stadium on the campus as one of the most important duties. In the absence of an own stadium were the Owls in 2001 and 2002 at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens on and from 2003 to 2010 was the Lockhart Stadium in Fort Lauderdale is the home of the FAU Owls.
For the entire construction 3916 tons of structural steel, 400 tons of aluminum and 15,800 tons of concrete were used. The floodlight system consists of a total of 160 lights, spread over six towers and the Haupttribünenbau. In addition, 195 palm trees were planted on the stadium grounds.
Name
In February 2013, the FAU joined with the local GEO Group, a company engaged in the private prisons and psychiatric facilities, a 12 - year contract for the naming rights to the stadium, from. The agreement should bring the University six million U.S. dollars. But it stirred immediate opposition to the naming GEO Group stage. It demonstrated students and civil rights groups against the stadium name. By means of a petition should the name change be undone. At the time, the term Owlcatraz, coined in imitation of the famous prison island of Alcatraz in the bay of San Francisco. On April 1, 2013, the GEO Group withdrew due to the protests of the agreement and the stadium was given its name FAU Stadium.
Other Events
On her trip to the USA in 2013 the German national football team stepped to a test match against Ecuador on 29 May. After 24 minutes, the DFB team completed before 5500 spectators, despite many missing key players, already 4-0, after the final whistle it was 4-2. Lukas Podolski scored after just nine seconds of the fastest goals in the German National team history.
Previously celebrated the U.S. women's national team two wins in FAU Stadium. Against China, they kept on December 15, 2012, 4:1 the upper hand. On 8 February 2014, it celebrated a clear 7-0 victory against the team from Russia.
From the 2014 season the newly formed lacrosse team of Florida Launch ( MLL) will host their games at FAU Stadium. In December 2014, the stadium will be the venue for the inaugural Boca Raton Bowl. The NCAA football game will initially be held until 2019 per year in the stadium.
Gallery
Outside the stadium
The stadium scoreboard