Ruhrstadion

• VfL Bochum

• Football match Germany - Hungary on July 2, 1922 ( 0-0)
• Football match Germany - Finland on 23 September 1981 ( 7:1)
• Football match Germany - Yugoslavia on 11 May 1986 ( 1:1)
• Football match Germany - Ghana on April 14, 1993 ( 6:1)
• U-21 European Football Championships 2004
• U-20 World Cup 2010 Women's
• World Cup 2011 Women

The Rewirpowerstadion (proper spelling: rewirpowerSTADION ) is the football stadium of the football club VfL Bochum. The stadium is located on the Castroper street in the northeast of the city center of Bochum, where the VfL ​​and its predecessor clubs have been playing football since 1911. VfL Bochum thus has one of the most traditional venues in German professional football.

History

Sports field at the Castroper road (1911-1921)

In 1911 Learner Bochum 08 leased a meadow outside the former city limits. The meadow was colloquially, after the lessor Bauer Dieckmann, the name Dieckmann meadow. The first official football game on the road Castroper took place before 500 spectators on October 8th place in 1911 on the Game of Pupils 08 and VfB Hamm. Only after the First World War, the sports field was expanded into a stadium.

Stadium at the Castroper road (1921-1979)

The TuS Bochum 1848 ( a fusion club in 1919 arose from the Learner 1908 Bochum and Bochum TV 1848) built in 1921 a stadium with seating for 50,000 spectators at the Castroper road. For the first game in the new stadium in Düsseldorf SC 99 was a guest. At this time, the Bochum stadium is one of the most modern and largest football stadiums in Germany, so on July 2, 1922, Hungary received the German national football team here for a friendly game. In the 1920s and 1930s, the stadium was at the Castroper road home to the Gauligisten of TuS Bochum 08 ( emerged from the TuS 1848 Bochum by clean break with the TV Bochum 1848 on February 1, 1924) and Germania Bochum and repeatedly venue of games the West German Football Championship. Since the season 1938/39, the Gauliga Westphalia Stadium is the home of VfL Bochum, a fusion of club on 14 April 1938 for the TV Bochum 1848, the TuS 1908 Bochum and SV Germania Bochum 1906 was born.

In the 1950s, the VfL ​​built a seat grandstand with 2,700 seats of which 1,300 were covered. After promotion to the Bundesliga for the 1971/72 season had to be adapted to the requirements of professional football and the stadium. Thus, a floodlight system was required, which was first raised in the home game against VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach on 7 October 1972 deployment. Much like the neighbors from Dortmund ( Westphalia Stadium ) and Gelsenkirchen ( Park Stadium ), the Bochum wanted to build a new stadium in the 1970s. However, the club did not get approval for a new building, so the stadium was on the road Castroper finally rebuilt.

The rebuilding took place between March 1976 and July 1979 and was implemented in four stages of individual grandstand sections. VfL Bochum played during remodeling in a construction site. At the end of the Bundesliga 1975/76 season the lawn at Castroper road was unplayable due to the transformation. VfL Bochum had to avoid for the last seven home games of the season in different stages. Six times - the games against Kaiserslautern, Duisburg, Cologne, Frankfurt, Berlin and Karlsruhe - VfL played in the stadium on Strünkede Castle in Herne and on April 2, 1976 once in the Dortmund Westfalen stadium against FC Schalke 04

Ruhr Stadium (1979-2006)

After the reconstruction the stadium was inaugurated on 21 July 1979 under the new name Ruhr Stadium with a game against the SG Wattenscheid 09. The original capacity of the Ruhr stadium was 49,522 spectators. This capacity has been reduced by numerous conversions. Thus, before the 1997/98 season, the West Stand, which was originally a pure standing terrace, converted into a seat grandstand. The current capacity (season 2012 /13) is 29 299 seats, of which 16,174 seats and 13,125 standing places.

The German national football team played in this period three times in the Ruhr Stadium. In qualifying for the 1982 World Cup on September 23, 1981 against Finland, and the friendly matches against Yugoslavia on 11 May 1986, Ghana on 14 April 1993.

CSKA Moscow was its home match in the UEFA Champions League 1992/93 against the Rangers on 9 December 1992 under the weather conditions in Russia in the Ruhr Stadium from.

Since August 2003, the VfL ​​Bochum features a five-story Stadioncenter behind the north stand of the stadium Ruhr. It provides facilities for the office, junior section, the board, the team as well as for the care of about 1,250 VIPs. On the ground floor of the stadium Centers a fan shop, a restaurant ( " 8zehn48 " ) are set up, in which it is possible to watch away games VfL Bochum on a canvas, as well as multiple monitors.

On September 30, 2004 - the UEFA Cup match against Standard Liege - was the East Stand, the fan block the VfL trailer, fitted with seats, which, however, were removed for normal league operation.

RewirpowerSTADION (since 2006)

Since the beginning of the season 2006/ 07 the Ruhr stadium bears the name of Rewirpower, a subsidiary of Stadtwerke Bochum and other utilities. The contract between the club and company ran over five years and was extended from 2011 to 2016. As in many other cases, the renaming has been criticized by the majority of Bochum fan scene.

Bochum was the venue for the European Under-21 Junior 2004, including the final. During the U-20 World Cup 2010 Women and the Women's World Cup in 2011, the Ruhr Stadium was under the name " FIFA Women 's World Cup Stadium Bochum " venue. To comply with FIFA standards, the stadium was renovated in 2011. Also, the stadium was enlarged on the occasion of the World Cup. So there was the media center, new spaces for the care of VIPs have been created, and also the premises used by the players, for example for fitness and physiotherapy were enlarged.

From 4 to 9 October 2011, the VfL ​​Bochum "100 years of football on the street Castroper " celebrated the anniversary week.

Herbert Grönemeyer played and plays repeatedly sold-out open-air concerts in the stadium. This was so far in 1985, 1994, 1998, 2003, 2007, 2009 and 2012, the case.

Location

• Address: rewirpowerSTADION Bochum, Castrop Str 145, 44791 Bochum
• Directions By car: A 40 junction Bochum Stadium
• Public transport: stop rewirpowerSTADION ( BOGESTRA tram lines 308/318; sometimes also 306; Bus 360)