Franz Fekete Stadium

Kapfenberg SV

The Franz Fekete Stadium (formerly Alpen Stadium ) is a sports facility in Kapfenberg in the province of Styria, Austria. Although all facilities are available for athletics, it is primarily used for football and is home to the SV Kapfenberg.

History

The Franz Fekete Stadium was built in the years 1941-1951 under the then mayor Heinrich Graf disc. It was opened on 10 September 1950 under the name Alpenstadion. At the opening of the then Austrian champions FK Austria Wien was charged, who defeated the home team 8-1 in front of 10,000 spectators.

Between 1951 and 1967 the stadium was eleven seasons long hosted the home matches of SV Kapfenberg in the top division. From 1985 to 1987, the stadium was extensively upgraded and modernized under the Kapfenberg Mayor Franz Fekete. In the following years, a sports hotel and floodlights were added. Since the year 2003 in Kapfenberg right next to the stadium is also the only Austrian heated artificial turf plant. To the present date, the stadium 12,000 people place, with around 2,000 seats in the main stand are available and a further 10,000 standing places are located around the playing surface.

1994, 1995 and 1996 were held the Austrian Supercup finals in this stadium. In the season 1996/ 97 of Grazer AK contributed much of his Bundesliga home games and three home games in the UEFA Cup in Kapfenberg, including the return leg to the second main round match against Inter Milan in front of 11,000 spectators, the high audience numbers was made possible by the addition of bleachers. On 18 September 2001, on the occasion of the 80th birthday of the former mayor Franz Fekete, the stadium finally received its present name. On 19 February 2009, died Fekete at the age of 87 years in Kapfenberg.

In 2008, the club was given the rise of the professional team in the Austrian Bundesliga, prescribed by the Board of the League that the stadium should be expanded to include a grandstand seat to be at all bundesliga fit. Since the SV Kapfenberg with this project, however, until the 2009/10 season, so had a total of two years, she decided to start the construction of the additional grandstand until the summer of 2009. Despite many hours of work it was not done before the season starts. So it was that the grandstand in home game of the first round was still without shelter and this was not completed until shortly before the next home game in the second round.