Wörthersee Stadion

Austria Klagenfurt

• 2008 European Football Championship
• OFB Cup Final 2010
• OFB Cup Finals 2014-2018

The Wörthersee Stadium (own spelling Wörthersee Stadion) is an Austrian football stadium in Klagenfurt district Waidmannsdorf. It is the home stadium of the division side SK Austria Klagenfurt and designed for 32,000 spectators. Other parts of the adjacent sports parks are a ball sport center of excellence, a football academy, climbing walls, rowing pool and a track and field facility.

History

The Wörthersee Stadium was built in 1960 and served the former footballing figurehead of Klagenfurt, the Austria, as new home, after the former Home Place the expansion of the exhibition grounds fell victim. The stadium, an elongated oval with low bleachers and a career in front of the field, inspired the club: just risen from the national league in the regional league, you could already 1962 A- league football seen in the Wörthersee Stadium. With three interruptions and intermittent downs in the second division, the Austrian League regular guest was Wörtherseestadion to glory days before full 10,000 spectators.

After descending 1989 Klagenfurt Austria, who played only in the fourth division national league soon, came the slow demise of the sports field. A recent highlight was the first Austrian international match in Carinthia, on August 17, 1994 against Russia, on 24 July 1998 took place here also the Supercup instead. Only after the creation of the FC Kärnten from the Klagenfurt Austria and the SV Villach got back into the stadium after the Bundesliga ascent 2001 Wörthersee stadium was even extended and expanded the capacity to just under 11,000 spectators. The surprising decline in 2004 ended abruptly, however, this last blast.

After the Klagenfurt Wörthersee Stadium was determined at the same time as the venue for the 2008 European Championship, the decision was a new building of the stadium. The historic Wörtherseestadion was thus removed in November 2005 together with a block of flats, the groundbreaking for the new building took place on 11 January 2006 by Governor Jörg Haider and mayor Harald Scheucher. The planned by the architectural firm Wimmer Construction was completed in September 2007 by the construction companies Porr AG and Alpine Mayreder, the first game for the opening on September 7, a friendly match between Austria and Japan took place, which ended in a goalless draw. During the time of the rebuilding of the FC Kärnten played at the sports center Fischl, the low number of spectators in the second game stage appeared as a problem for the new building, which ( under the new name of Hypo Group Arena ) than by the short-term resettlement of Bundesliga ASKOE Traun in the new stadium SK Austria Kärnten was ignored.

The cost of the entire project with the appropriate sports park was estimated officially at 66.5 million euros. Funding was one-third each by the federal government, the Province of Carinthia and Klagenfurt. The payment of the one third of the city that was the client, but also took on a low budget the country. The stadium should provide 32,000 visitors space for three EM- round games. Then a demolition was scheduled to 22,000 visitors places from 2009. The financing of decommissioning should be carried out by the federal government, the degraded stands are used in other stages. Whether or in what form the demolition takes place, has long been unclear because of disputes over funding, but 16 September 2009 agreed to representatives of the city of Klagenfurt, Carinthia not be dismantled with Darabos on the stadium. The Ministry of Finance has yet to agree, because the federal government assumes the cost of other construction activities.

Stadium name

On June 30, 2007, it announced that the Wörthersee Stadium is for the next ten years bear the name of Hypo Group Arena. Hypo Alpe Adria secured the naming rights of the new stadium for the next ten years until 2017., Given massive financial problems of the banking group in the context of the financial crisis in 2009, the name was in 2010 rückbenannt in Wörthersee Stadium.

After the death of the Carinthian governor Jörg Haider had been proposed by the FPÖ to rename the stadium in Jörg Haider Stadium.