Eilenriedestadion

Hannover 96

The Eilenriedestadion is a football stadium in Hanover. It is the venue for the youth teams of the Bundesliga football club Hannover 96, located at the edge of the forest Eilenriede.

Description

The stadium consists of a roofed grandstand, see the about 500 spectators. In this grandstand also the changing rooms and sanitary facilities are housed. On the opposite stand still even exist about 500 seats in the form of benches. Otherwise, there is the stadium of flat ranks on which are standing room only. The audience of about 18,000 can only be very roughly estimated as the standing ranks would not meet today's security requirements by far. Mostly only the seats in the main stand and the opposite benches in use.

History

The Eilenriedestadion was built in 1921 under the name " stadium in the city of Hanover ." One of the pillars at the entrance was inscribed with: "Hindenburg arena of Hanover, built in 1921 ". 25,000 people took the stadium at that time. In 1934 it was renamed Hindenburg arena, after the Second World War it was briefly again " stadium in the city of Hanover " until it got its current name.

1931 and 1937 football matches were held in this stadium, against Denmark (4-2 ) and Belgium ( 1-0), it was also at individual games alternative venue of Hannover 96 for the close location (old ) Velodrome, which was demolished in 1958. In Eilenriedestadion Hannover 96 has therefore not played regularly. The Eilenriedestadion was also used as alternative venue for professionals, such as 1974, among others, against Kaiserslautern as the Lower Saxony Stadium was rebuilt for the World Cup 1974.

After the Eilenriedestadion 1956 official domicile of the association was, Hannover 96 moved in 1959 to the former Lower Saxony Stadium. The youth teams play continues today in Eilenriedestadion. Since 2008, Second Team played for Hannover 96 in the AWD - Arena, as the Eilenriedestadion by the DFB is no longer approved for Football Regional. Meanwhile, the second team of Hannover 96 is moved to the very small, but approved for the Regional Beeke stadium is the home ground of the district clubs Sportfreunde Rickingen.

In 2005, the stadium has been partially renovated and served as a training venue during the Confederations Cup 2005. Behind one of the doors there is a small football field artificial turf.