Stadion Wiener Neustadt

SC Wiener Neustadt

The Wiener Neustadt Stadion is a football stadium in the Lower Austrian town of Wiener Neustadt. It is the home ground of SC Wiener Neustadt in the Bundesliga. The stadium is also used for speedway racing. It has 7,700 visitors.

History

The Wiener Neustadt Stadion was opened by Mayor Rudolf Wehrl on May 19, 1955. It has previously been established in three years of construction on the Daimler- meadow under Baurat Kucha - Lissberg. With the completion of the stadium drew the then first division 1 SC Wiener Neustadt from a fall festival grounds and denied until 1967, games in the highest league. 1972/73 was to be seen here again the major league football SV Admira Wiener Neustadt.

The attendance record of 12,000 in Wiener Neustadt Stadion dated September 14, 1963 in the game against Austria Vienna, which was also sensationally beaten 1-0, with actually more people likely to have been present. After the first SC Wiener Neustadt in 1965 stood against champions LASK Linz in OFB Cup final, the first leg was also held in accordance with the stadium, there was on September 1, 1965 against StiinTa Cluj even a game in the European Cup Winners' Cup.

In the 1980s, the Wiener Neustadt stadium was largely modernized and equipped among other things with a floodlight system and completed the covered grandstand seat. 1992 you still got the contract for the Supercup final. After the descent of Wiener Neustadt from the 2nd Division in 1995 no more professional football was to see moved to 2008, the SC Magna Wiener Neustadt from the nearby Oberwaltersdorf in the stadium.

In this collection in 2008, the existing floodlighting was rebuilt and adapted to the current needs as well as adaptations for spectators ( new bucket seats, Service Container ), player ( Kabinantrakt ) and television ( commentator cabins, transmission facilities ) made. The field received a new lawn. In football, moreover, the speedway track is overlaid with the original occasion of the 2008 European Football Championship installed at Vienna's Ernst Happel Stadium artificial turf. Overall, 2008 was € 1.2 million was invested in the stadium.