Volkswagen Arena

VfL Wolfsburg

• World Cup 2011 Women

Volkswagen Arena is the football stadium of VfL Wolfsburg. It was completed in the fall of 2002 and has a capacity of 30,000 spectators. The name derives from the main sponsor of the stadium and the VfL ​​Wolfsburg, Volkswagen AG, from.

Facts and Figures

• Cost: 53 million euro investment ( applied to 50 % of Volkswagen AG and the Wolfsburg AG)
• Owner of the stadium / Developer: Wolfsburg AG
• Seatings: 30,000 covered seats and standing places, of which 8,000 standing places for league games. In the UEFA Cup and Champions League games are from 8,000 standing places 4,000 seats, 80 wheelchair- accessible seating well as one accompanying person. Overall, the stadium can accommodate 30,000 spectators.
• Family and children's block: A special children's area with family accompaniment ( Wölfi curve) with 2,500 seats, supervised children's courts and children's playground.
• Canopy: The spectator area is completely protected by a translucent roof. A full- roofing of the entire stadium can be retrofitted.
• Lodges: 32 pieces each for ten people, VIP area for 80 persons, 1,200 business seats (seats near the midline )
• Lawn: field rotated by 90 degrees from north to south, 3 ½ training areas immediately adjacent to the stadium. Both field and 1 ½ training areas are heated. For the 2011/12 season, a new playing surface was laid in the stadium. Here, around 20 million artificial grass fibers have been about 20 inches deep into the soil in the natural grass. The natural grass roots grown with the times with the synthetic fibers to a robust playing surface. Volkswagen Arena is the first German professional stadium with the Grass Master system from Desso Sports Systems.

Facade of the Volkswagen Arena

Internationals

The first and only international match of the German national football team of the gentlemen at the Volkswagen Arena was held on June 1, 2003: Against the team from Canada, the Germans won 4-1. Furthermore met on 3 June 2006 in advance of the 2006 World Cup in Germany, the national teams of Poland and Croatia each other. Poland won the friendly match 1-0.

The Volkswagen Arena was a venue for the World Cup of Women 2011. During the tournament, the stadium was called Arena in Wolfsburg Allerpark. The German team was eliminated in Wolfsburg to a 0-1 defeat against the Japanese team.

Concerts

• Herbert Grönemeyer (2003)
• Anastacia (2005)
• Elton John (2006)