Euroborg
FC Groningen
- U-21 European Football Championships 2007
The euro Borg is a football stadium in the Dutch city of Groningen.
To the stadium
Euro Borg since 1 January 2006, the new home of FC Groningen, who was still playing up then Oosterpark Stadium. In the spring of 2002, started the construction of the stadium complex. The stadium has a capacity of 20,000 seats. The new football temple is situated in the Euro Park, an entirely newly created district at the end of Oude ( old ) Winschoterdiep in the east of Groningen. The cost for the stadium was estimated at 29.4 million euros. The plans were designed by the architectural firm Wiel Arets in Maastricht.
What makes the Euro Borg is that the stadium area was structurally embedded into a huge shopping, office and residential complex. This innovative concept of football to be placed at the center of working there and living people.
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The entire euro Borg complex consists of later:
- Football stadium with 20,000 covered seats
- 6,000 m² of office space
- 180 apartments
- 5,000 m² supermarket
- 1,500 m² gastronomic used rooms
- 2,000 square feet of casino
- 1950 seats in 10 Kinosäalen
- 8,500 m² Noorderpoort college with about 1300 students
- Parking garage with 1,000 garage places