Niederrheinstadion

Rot-Weiß Oberhausen

• 27 May-8 June 2004 - finals venue for the European Junior Championships
• September 12, 2006: World Cup main round of people with disabilities.

The Niederrhein Stadium is a football stadium with track and field facility in the North Rhine - Westphalian city of Oberhausen in the Ruhr area.

Location

The stadium is located in the bush Hausen district on a peninsula between the Emscher River and the Rhine -Herne Canal. The Oval is the venue of the football division side Rot-Weiß Oberhausen.

Spectator capacity

Overall, the stadium Niederrhein offers 21,318 spectators, including 17,279 in standing areas (1,000 covered) and 4,039 on seats (all covered).

History

The stadium was inaugurated on 28 February 1926, the game Duisburg SpV - Arminia Bielefeld. In 1970 the stadium was fitted with floodlights. 4 masts with 55 halogen lamps and a total output of 800 KW shone from the playing field, so that the brightness was suitable for color television broadcasts for the first time. 1982 Tartan career was supplemented with six 400 m and eight 100 m raceways, 1996, the affixing of Misfit scoreboard from the Leverkusen- Ulrich- Haberland Stadium, a gift of the club TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen at the city of Oberhausen.

After a major reconstruction, in which the standing ranks were replaced, the back straight was a tribune and the grandstand was completely rebuilt, the stadium was opened in the beginning of the second division season of red -Weiß Oberhausen again in 1998. In 2004, the stadium was more conversion work - adapted to increased requirements for second-division games - especially in the area of the main grandstand.

Since November 2007, ie the grandstand evo -Tribune, named after the longtime sponsors of the SC Rot -Weiss Oberhausen Oberhausen of the power supply.

After the rise of RWO in the 2nd Bundesliga for the season 2008/2009 a renewed reconstruction of the stadium was required under the statutes of the DFL. In July 2008, the lawn has been completely renewed and installed a soil heating.

Events

The stadium Lower Rhine in 2004 was one of the four venues of the U-21 Football Championship. Three preliminary round games, semi-finals and the match for third place were held in Oberhausen. Two years later, the match between France and Hungary (1:3) was played at the Football World Cup 2006, the people with disabilities in Oberhausen Stadium. Women's football club FCR 2001 Duisburg has played in the 2009/10 season two home games in the UEFA Women's Champions League in Oberhausen, as the floodlights in Duisburg's home ground, the PCC stadium does not meet the requirements of UEFA.