Kyocera Stadion
- Games for ADO Den Haag
- Field Hockey World Championship for Men 2014
- Field Hockey Women's World Cup 2014
The Kyocera Stadium is a stadium in the Dutch city of The Hague and the home ground of Ehrendivisionärs ADO Den Haag. The stadium can accommodate 15,000 spectators and was the 2007/08 season officially opened. By June 2010, bore the name ADO Den Haag Stadion. In addition to football, the sports facility is used to for field hockey.
Construction and opening
On 23 November 2005 " Forepark " the construction work was started in the industrial area. The exterior is made entirely of polished aluminum. In the current state, the stadium can accommodate 15,000 spectators, a structural expansion of up to 30,000 spectators is possible due to the very low conscious development all around the stadium. The cost was approximately € 28 million.
The opening of the stadium in the English style took place with a friendly match between ADO Den Haag and a selection of amateur Hague Country Region on 28 July 2007. The game won ADO Den Haag 5-0. Until that time, ADO wore its home games since 1925, 11,000 seater Zuiderparkstadion from. In June 2010 a multi-year sponsorship deal over the naming rights to the Japanese office communications company Kyocera has been completed and the venue was named Kyocera Stadion.
Security
The Kyocera Stadium is one of the safest stadiums in the world. A condition for the architect of the stadium that there is no fence between spectators and the field should be located. For this reason, the playing field is applied increases, the stands are adapted accordingly; thus playing field and ranks are separated by a moat. Among the grandstands is thus an area in which 12,000 people move during the halftime free and can supply you with snacks and the like. The remaining 3,000 spectators will be hosted in the VIP area. The playing field itself is only accessible by a particular gear.
Among the not uncontroversial safety measures include that you may purchase tickets for home games only with a Clubcard ADO Den Haag, are stored on the biometric data and agrees with the purchase of a ticket to a video surveillance with biometric methods. Exceptions are made only for the supporters of visiting clubs, provided they do not arrive individually but only by so-called " mandatory bus - combi ," meaning that the opponents are allowed to sell ADO tickets only in conjunction with a bus ride and individual guests arriving fans still in the stadium be left. Similar measures are common to many Dutch professional clubs, but usually only in so-called risk playing against opponents where riots are feared and not - as in this case - as a general measure, the neutral visitors access to the game is completely impossible.
In the entrance of the inlet control by Happy Crowd locks will be held. These locks make use of every single viewer when entering the stadium a biometric photo of the face. Furthermore, 100 cameras are installed throughout the stadium, make the shots of the audience during the game with biometric methods.
Field Hockey World Championships 2014
In 2014, the Hockey World Championship for Men and Women will be held in The Hague. In addition to the Greenfields stage, the Kyocera Stadium is the main venue of the World Championships. For a temporary hockey pitch made from artificial turf is laid first. After the World Championships, the stadium will receive a synthetic turf for the Games of ADO Den Haag.