Seppl-Herberger-Stadion

1st team of SV Waldhof Mannheim (until 1993 ), second team and youth (to date)

The Seppl - Herberger -Stadion ( also old Waldhof Stadium until 1996 Stadium on Alsenweg ) is located in the district of Mannheim Waldhof. From December 1924 to the end of November 1993 ( except for the years 1983-1989 ), the first team of SV Waldhof Mannheim wore their home games here. Today, it serves for the discharge of test games and as a home for the second team and youth teams of the SVW.

The stadium consists of a grandstand with seating and speaker cab as well as to the field of play arranged standing room. Its total capacity is 15,200 spectators. It is part of Seppl Herberger sports facility, which was named in 1996 with the stadium after the former Waldhof player and coach German Idol Seppl Herberger and is the site of the club SV Waldhof.

The Seppl - Herberger -Stadion was built at the beginning of the 1920s in the "Plaza on the ranges " and was after the so-called " mud hole " and the " sand bag " behind the Waldhof school the third venue of the SV Waldhof. After its partial destruction in the Second World War, it was built by the year 1954 by club members and volunteers again. After the rise of the SVW in the Bundesliga in 1983, the grandstand had to make way for a new building. Due to requirements of the DFB, the first team of SV Waldhof Mannheim wore during the Bundesliga from time yet most of their home games at the stadium in the greater Southwest sister city of Ludwigshafen. In the season 1989/1990 she returned into the home stadium back on Alsenweg. Since 1994 she plays in the newly built Carl -Benz -Stadion in Oststadt district. In Seppl - Herberger -Stadion occur today, the 2nd team and the youth of the SV Waldhof at their home games. 1996 here is a match between the German women's national team and Iceland was discharged.

On the Seppl Herberger sports complex also contains the office of the SV Waldhof (access via player input in the grandstand ), another grass pitch and three artificial grass courts. In 2009, made ​​possible by a donation from Dietmar Hopp, which opened "Youth Support Centre Mannheim- north ". Furthermore, there are at Alsenweg the club house of the SV Waldhof, " In Dimi ", which is headed by former Waldhof player Dimitrios Tsionanis or his brother Pantelis, the Herbert Lucy Hall, which serves the handball players of SV Waldhof Mannheim as home ground, and the court system the tennis department of the SVW.