Eintracht-Stadion

Eintracht-Stadion () is a multi-purpose stadium in Braunschweig, Germany. It is currently used for football and American football matches and is the home stadium of Eintracht Braunschweig and the New Yorker Lions. The stadium is able to hold 24,406 people and was built in 1923.

Key facts

Venue.name: Eintracht-Stadion
Venue.logo_image: 250px
Venue.image: 250px|Eintracht-Stadion 250px
Venue.fullname: Eintracht-Stadion
Venue.location: Braunschweig, Germany
Venue.owner: Stadthalle Braunschweig Betriebsgesellschaft mbH
Venue.tenants: Eintracht Braunschweig (1923–present)
Venue.built: 1922 to 1923
Venue.surface: Grass
Venue.former_names: Städtisches Stadion an der Hamburger Straße (1982–2008)
Venue.seating_capacity: 24,40623,325 (football matches)
Venue.construction_cost: 15 Million EUR (2009)

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History
Athletics
Concert venue
Gallery
References
External links

==History== thumb|left|Aerial view before the 2009–13 reconstruction. Up to the early 1920s, Eintracht Braunschweig played its home games at Sportplatz an der Helmstedter Straße, which held 3,000 people. The need for a bigger stadium lead to the construction of the Eintracht-Stadion, located at the Hamburger Straße in the northern part of the city, one of Braunschweig's main arterial roads, in 1923. The new stadium was opened on 17 June 1923 with a friendly against 1. FC Nürnberg. In 1955, the Eintracht-Stadion hosted the final of the DFB-Pokal, the German Football Association Cup, between Karlsruher SC and FC Schalke 04. Karlsruhe won the match 3–2.