Stadium planned as a host venue for 1974 World Cup was replaced by Dortmund and the stadium was ready in 1975, though nearly 20,000 smaller than previously envisaged.
The highest-competing teams from the city even got relegated in the first season after competitive football was reintroduced. Home > Resources > Stadiums > Countries > Germany > RheinEnergie. Four stands are anchored by four giant red-and-white towers and hold 50,000 supporters right at the edge of the pitch and on the edge of their seats. As one of the country's largest and most football-mad cities, Cologne naturally bid to host some of the matches. The RheinEnergieStadion, officially written as RheinEnergieSTADION, is a German football stadium in Cologne. Before every home game, during the singing of the FC Cologne anthem "Mir stonn zu dir, FC Kölle" (We stand by you, FC Cologne), sung in the local Kölsch language, an attendant brings out the club mascot, a goat named Hennes. Après le traité de Versailles en 1919, les fortifications de Cologne furent supprimées et la ville disposa ainsi d'une large zone à laquelle une utilisation nouvelle pouvait être dédiée. Despite a newly-renovated stadium, the city went empty-handed while local rivals Cologne got the nod. The predecessor to the new World Cup stadium was the Müngersdorfer Stadion, the only fully covered stadium in Germany when it was built in 1975. With projections suggesting a final cost more than three times the original budget, Cologne had no choice but to put the project on hold and pull out of hosting World Cup matches.One year after the World Cup, Cologne did complete their new stadium, with a capacity of 61,000. Following the completion of the stadium the city began to gain prominence in the domestic sports world.
Le maire de Cologne Konrad Adenauer voulait convertir le terrain en un grand espace vert au milieu duquel des installations sportives verraient le jour. Alternatively, you can buy tickets on secondary ticket markets though the prices will be higher than face value.
FC Köln. FC Köln in 1964 for Mönchengladbach.Another “Rheinisches derby” is the confrontation between Leverkusen and Cologne. Named after legendary player and coach Hennes Weisweiler, the first Hennes was given to the club in 1951 as a carnival joke, and a goat soon became part of the club crest.Get your front row seat to the Bundesliga experience by signing up for our official newsletter:A match at the RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne is a special occasion full of passionate cheers, songs and also a goat.A match at the RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne is a special occasion full of passionate cheers, songs and also a goat.Thousands of faithful Cologne fans come to worship their footballing idols at every home match. Even today, the area surrounding the stadium contains running tracks, swimming pools, and also the German Sports University: Cologne play in a sports paradise!The Müngersdorfer Stadion, as it was known, was an excellent venue for football for five decades and became the home of FC Cologne after the club's formation in 1948. This time Cologne was ready two years prior to World Cup, not missing out on the 2006 event. The stadium boasted a league capacity of 81,360 both standing and seated while its international capacity is 65,829 seated only. In 1963, when Cologne were crowned champions of the inaugural Bundesliga season, some 76,000 could gather to watch their team in the stadium.The end for the old ground came with the 1974 FIFA World Cup in West Germany. Hennes IX, to be more precise, reigning since the August 2019 retirement of his predecessor.
Add in a goat and a rousing anthem, and you have an atmosphere unlike anything else in Europe.The grounds of 1. Many major football matches were held at the stadium in front of huge crowds. The team won the first Bundesliga in 1964, and another one in 1977. The RheinEnergieStadion is one of Germany's finest examples of a classic football stadium.
The game between both teams is known as the “Rheinisches derby”.
Since its founding over 2000 years ago, the city had always been protected by walls and fortresses, but following the First World War, these were removed, leaving a wide strip of open land on the western outskirts.
Hence, on 12 November 1975, a 61,000-seat arena was inaugurated with a match between With the news of the prospect of bringing the World Cup back to Germany, the city reacted and started renovation of the stadium, which was completed in 2003. The ground is home to FC Köln of the Bundesliga. No home match begins without the whole stadium singing the club anthem "Mir stonn zu Dir, FC Kölle" (We stand by you, FC Cologne). During the 1950s, the club regularly lost to clubs from the north and the south of the republic in the final stages of the competition. The capacity of the ground is 40,590 and the population of the city is over one million residents. On the initiative of then Cologne mayor and future German chancellor Konrad Adenauer, a section of this land was developed into a large sports complex with a stadium at its heart.The stadium was completed in 1923 and, together with the surrounding facilities, was the largest sports complex in Europe at the time. Address: Fritz-Walter Straße 11, 67653 Kaiserslautern: Club: FC Kaiserslautern After the war the stadium has only hosted professional level sports. More information can be found here.