Stadion Albert Flórián
- Ferencvaros Budapest
- Games of Ferencvaros Budapest
The Albert Flórián Stadium is a football stadium currently building under renovation in the Hungarian capital Budapest. It offered until it was demolished in March 2013 space for 18,100 spectators and was the home of the football club Ferencvaros Budapest. At present, a new home for the Green-Whites 13.5 billion HUF is built ( around 45 million euros ) with 22,600 seats at the same place. The new building is to be built and opened until the fall of 2014. Meanwhile, the club receives his opponents temporarily held in the Puskás Ferenc Stadium.
History
The first stadium was built in the autumn of 1910 to the spring of 1911., For the first game on February 12, 1911, the home side hit on the rival from MTK Budapest FC and won 2-1. After 60 years, the second venue was built in the years 1971 to 1974. On the 75th anniversary club, the stadium was inaugurated with the game Ferencvaros against a team of Vasas Budapest ( 4:4 ) on 19 May 1974. Most users ever online was achieved on 12 September 1981. The game against Ferencvaros Budapest Honvéd ( 2:4 ) attracted 32,000 fans in the stadium then Üllő úti. The first capacity was 29 505 spectators. Due to increased security measures and the conversion of standing in the seating capacity of the stadium was in the early 1990s to 18,100 places. On March 24, 2013 is the last football match took place in the 40 -year-old venue. Ferencvaros separated from the Romanian team CFR Cluj in a goalless draw. A few days later, the demolition work began.
New
2008 took over Kevin McCabe, a British contractor and Chairman of English club Sheffield United, the Hungarian record champions and trophy winners, together with the somewhat dated stadium and rescued him from bankruptcy. Since then, there are plans of the stadium Ferencvaros be replaced by a new arena. McCabe but withdrew again. Two years later, they tried it with a new stadium concept. It was not until the third attempt, the project was implemented. On the old stadium reason a stadium with four covered stands on which 22,600 spectator seats, including 29 executive boxes are located. At the beginning of the demolition of the foundation stone was laid for the new stadium on 28 March 2013.
Name
By the year 2007, the stadium of the Green-Whites had the name Üllő úti Stadium. In honor of former striker Flórián Albert (1941-2011, Nickname: Csaszar, German Emperor ) was given the facility at December 21, 2007 Forty years after Albert was named the best player in Europe in 1967, the name Albert Flórián Stadium. After Flórián Albert came to Ferencvaros age of 11, he debuted in 1958 with 17 years in the first team of the club. Albert denied 1959-1974 75 caps for the Hungarian national football team, where he reach 31 goals. He played his entire career from 1952 to 1974 for Ferencvaros, scoring 383 goals in 537 games (351 league games and 256 goals). He was also top scorer of the 1962 FIFA World Cup along with the players Garrincha, Vavá, Valentin Ivanov, Dražan Jerković and Leonel Sánchez.
Gallery
The stadium in 2010
Stadium construction site in September 2013
More picture of the new arena