Donaustadion

  • SSV Ulm 1846
  • Women's Football Championship 2001
  • German Athletics Championships 2006
  • German Athletics Championships 2009

The Danube Stadium is a football and athletics stadium in Ulm. The stadium has 19,500 seats, of which 4280 seats. The grandstand has 1280 seats which covered 830 and 450 unüberdacht. The modern main stand holds 3,000 covered seats. The curves in the stadium hold a total of 15,220 uncovered standing. Located directly on the Danube stadium is the home ground of the football team of SSV Ulm 1846.

History

The stadium was the first of its kind in southern Germany. 1925, at the inauguration ceremony as part of the country Turnfest, were counted around 40,000 spectators. This was possible because there was at that time no opposite stand and the opening of the horseshoe-shaped stadium in an adjacent meadow bordered, which was shared by the audience. During the war, the wooden grandstand was destroyed.

1952, the existing and covered up today grandstand was built. First changes were made with the step-like increase in the standing room only. In the 1980s, the seats in the main stand were replaced with individual seats and erected floodlights. 1999, a new main stand was built with 3,000 covered seats, of which a separate viewer block with 500 seats, has been declared a Non smoking block. This measure was unique and later found more imitators.

When the Player of the SSV Ulm 1846 1999 unexpectedly ascended to the 1st Bundesliga, additional bleachers were purchased, the behind the general admission ranks came at three different locations for use. This enabled the spectator capacity of 19,500 to 23,000 originally to be expanded. The subsequent descent prevented further conversion measures, such as a new building of the main stand and the canopy of standing places.

In March 2011, the green seats on the Haupttribühne that no longer corresponded to the latest fire safety regulations, and replaced by black and Herverhebung the lettering ULM white seats.

Countries venue

In addition to the local football stadium, the Danube served several times as a venue for international matches of the national team of women. So here including the final of the European Women was held in 2001. An 'A' match of the men was held on 7 June 2006 in Ulmer Stadium: In preparation for the 2006 World Cup in Germany played the Australian national team in Donaustadion against the selection of Liechtenstein; the game ended with a 3-1 (1-1 ) for the team from Australia.

Others

Also known as track and field competition venue, the stadium has been proven several times. So already the German Athletics Championships were held several times in the Danube Stadium, last 2013. The Donaustadion decreed in the 1999/2000 season as the first stadium of Bundesliga club on a separate Non smoking block with 500 seats. This block there are even today, and now this example has been made in other Bundesliga stadiums school.

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