Borussia-Park

Borussia Mönchengladbach

National league
2 Bundesliga
Football home games of Borussia Mönchengladbach U23 ( Games with a large number of spectators )
DFB-Pokal
UEFA Champions League
Matches of the German national football team
World Cup 2011 Women
Concerts
NATO Music Festival

The Borussia - Park in North Park, the club's football stadium of Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach. Inside the stadium, next to the football games, concerts and cultural events.

History

The stadium is located as the center of the area of Sports Park in the north of the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Mönchengladbach. The area was used until 1996 as North Ayrshire Barracks of the British Army of the Rhine. It is located in the district of Rhein - Dahlen country in the district West.

After the groundbreaking ceremony on 15 March 2002 Hochtief began construction on 13 November of the same year. On 30 July 2004 the stadium was a small tournament, attended by the addition of Borussia, Bayern Munich and AS Monaco, officially opened.

In Bundesliga games in the stadium find a total of 54 010 spectators at 34,933 covered seats and 18,883 standing places covered a place. As for international games no standing is allowed in these games, the capacity is limited to 46 279 spectators. The maximum building regulations approved capacity of 59 771 spectators, which is achieved when the South Stand, is converted to standing room modeled after the North Stand. The stadium has 45 business lodges with 684 seats and 1758 business seats. The spectators are divided into two ranks. In the lower part there are 18,883 seats and 16,145 standing places, of which 2066 in the away section in the South Stand. In the upper tier have 18,788 spectators seats into place. In addition, 194 press seats.

In Bökelbergstadion where the Borussia previously fought out their home games, there was only space for 34,500 spectators, including 8722 seats.

Is the administration building, which is the main entrance to the 250 -square-foot sports bar at the same time on the west side of the stadium. Overall, 18,500 square feet of space spread over five levels, which are under the West Stand.

The area of the Borussia - Park covers 264,000 square meters. Then stand the stadium, the administration building of the association with football boarding school and restaurant at the Hennes Weisweiler Allee 1, the fan shop, the club's training ground and parking. The construction costs of the Arena amounted to 86.9 million euros. In the southwest of the stadium is home to the ten -acre training ground. The terrain consists of seven large playing fields of natural grass, a large field of artificial grass pitches, two football cages for training games, an athletic surface with a runner hills and a coordination course.

The stadium was chosen on 30 September 2008 as one of the host cities of the Football World Cup 2011 Women. The Borussia-Park was behind Berlin and Frankfurt, the third largest stadium of the tournament. There were held two preliminary round games and a semifinal game.

Internationals

So far, four matches of the German national football team were played in the stadium.

As part of the Football World Cup 2011 Women found two preliminary round games, including one involving the German national football team of women, and a semi-final in the stadium.

European games

On August 21, 2012, the first European Cup match between Borussia Moenchengladbach and the Ukrainian representative Dynamo Kiev took place in the stadium for the qualification to participate in the UEFA Champions League 2012/13.

In the context of the UEFA Europa League 2012 /13 found in the Borussia Park following games instead:

Group stage:

Round of: