Ghelamco Arena

  • KAA Gent

The Ghelamco Arena is a football stadium in Ghent, East Flanders province. The building in the borough of Brugge Gent is the new home of the football club KAA Gent. First, the stadium was named Artevelde stadium after born in Ghent Jacob van Artevelde.

History

The beginnings of the new stadium go back to the year 2003. On 12 May, the city of Ghent announced in a press conference that a new football stadium is built. As a location, the old market hall of the city was selected. On grounds conveniently leads past the beltway R 4 and connects near the motorway junction A 10 and A 14, A completion was planned for the 2006/07 season. For the KAA Gent, the new building offers better revenue and marketing opportunities than in the Jules Otten stadium was built in 1920. In addition, the problem of residents falls away as the old stadium is surrounded by residential houses.

However, the schedule became strong in delay. Reasons for this included a negative environmental impact and armed with the nearby University Hospital UZ Gent for fear of noise from construction and operation of the arena. In 2009, the KAA Gent was plagued by financial problems. To club and the city could agree only in mid- 2010 on the financing of the construction costs of 50 million euros. A new date to the end of construction in 2012 was targeted, but only in 2011 was the construction can be started.

The Ghelamco Arena will provide visitors with 19,999 covered seats. They include 1,200 business seats and 20 boxes, called skyboxes, which include per 12 seats. For wheelchair users are depending on the demand for the home team 22-66 and Foreign visitors 10 to 30 spaces available. Also on hearing-impaired and blind visitors was commemorated with special places. The whole stadium there are kiosks and stalls selling food and drink. At the main entrance of the fan shop KAA Gent can be found. In the stadium are to rent office space with a total floor area of 15,000 square meters.

The exterior consists largely of glazed windows. In direct stadium area a total of 2,200 car parking (including 400 above ground and 1,100 underground and 78 disabled spaces ) ready. There are also 800 parking spaces for bicycles. In addition, shuttle buses and carpools are offered.

The complex Artevelde park next to the stadium include two ten-storey office towers called Blue Towers with 13,000 or 15,000 square feet of floor space, a hotel with 250 rooms and a hardware store with more than 14,000 square feet of retail space.

End of May 2013 was to announce that the naming rights were sold to the arena to the real estate company Ghelamco Group. This is called the sports venue Ghelamco Arena.

The new EUR 80 million stadium for the Buffalo was officially inaugurated on July 17, 2013 with a friendly match against VfB Stuttgart. The home side overcame a weak VfB 2-0 gates.

Gallery

The stadium behind the bridge over the Ringvaart of Ghent in June 2013

The construction site on June 4, 2013

The main entrance to the arena

The interior of the stadium

Pictures of Ghelamco Arena

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