BREMEN - Weserstadion (42,500)

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SV Werder Bremen

4x League:
1965, 1988, 1993, 2004

6x Cup:
1961, 1991, 1994, 1999, 2004,
2009

4x Supercup:
1988, 1993, 1994, 2009

1x UEFA Cup Winners' Cup:
1992







The Weserstadion in Bremen/Germany will be expanded and turned into a pure football stadium

The Weserstadion currently:




The new Weserstadion:




Stats:

- The capacity will be increased from ~43,000 to ~50,000 and the stadium will be turned into a pure football arena
- The stadium will get a glass facade/roof plus a thierd tier.
- Construction could start at the end of 2007 and the stadium could then be finished in the summer of 2008


Official website of the current stadium:

http://www.weserstadion.de/

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The new stadium from top:



Profile:



A bigger rendering of the new stadium:

http://photo.citybeat.de/images/phot...ht=637&brand=0

[www.sercan.de]

it will become a 3rd tier
thast cool
but the distance to the pitch will be still big?

[GNU]

Originally Posted by www.sercan.de

it will become a 3rd tier
thast cool
but the distance to the pitch will be still big?

Well, at the sidelines the distance is already pretty short because they lowered the pitch a few years ago.
Behind the goals the stands will be rebuilt to close the gap.
The outter structure will be kept though.
In the end it should be a pure football stadium.

[lpioe]

Good stuff. Pure football stadiums are so much better.
I heard Stuttgart wants to get rid of the 400m track too.
What about Nuremberg? I guess Berlin will keep it.

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Originally Posted by lpioe

Good stuff. Pure football stadiums are so much better.
I heard Stuttgart wants to get rid of the 400m track too.
What about Nuremberg? I guess Berlin will keep it.

Well Nurembergs stadium is not too old.
When they built it they just made the big mistake of putting an athletics track in.
The stadium was also being renovated for the world cup (the pitch was lowered for exmaple) so it will stay like it is now.

Berlin has just gotten a big renovation for quite a lot of money so the Olympiastadion will stay in service as it is of course.
Even though they are now debating whether they should sell the naming rights.

But Stuttgart wants to change something thats correct.
They are right now thinking about either building a new 50,000 to 60,000 stadium. The other option would be to turn the Gottlieb-Daimler stadium into a pure football arena aswell.
I hope that they will built a new 60k stadium.
The current stadium is great for athletics but not for football. Even when turned into a pure football arena.
And the state of Baden-Württemberg needs something new and big to equal Bavarias Allianz-Arena.

[www.sercan.de]

so it will be like that

new tribunes (3 tiers) for the stands behind the goals
3rd tier for the old stands
new roof?
new/updated outside

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Originally Posted by www.sercan.de

so it will be like that

new tribunes (3 tiers) for the stands behind the goals
3rd tier for the old stands
new roof?
new/updated outside

Yes, it will have 3 tiers going all around.
It will also get a new roof partly transparent and with solar cells on top.
The floodlight masts will dissappear of course.
The exterior will be a full glass facade, but the current structure is being kept.

Btw: As i said: In Stuttgart they are thinking whether they should built a new stadium or to turn the old one into a pure football arena.
I havent seen this newspaper pic before though. Is it new?

[www.sercan.de]

its from 2005

so
werder is building a "new" stadium

[Martuh]

It's a pure footballstadium already. There isn't a runningtracks.

[Quintana]

The stands behind the goal are to far away from the pitch to be considered a real football stadium though.

[Martuh]

Originally Posted by Quintana

The stands behind the goal are to far away from the pitch to be considered a real football stadium though.

No. It's used only for football, right? It doesn't have running tracks, does it? So it's a pure football stadium already. And there's a difference between a pure and real football stadium.

[GNU]

Correct, thats the reason why they will rebuilt the stands behind the goals to bring them close to the pitch.

[Kampflamm]

Well Nurembergs stadium is not too old.
When they built it they just made the big mistake of putting an athletics track in.
The stadium was also being renovated for the world cup (the pitch was lowered for exmaple) so it will stay like it is now.

The Frankenstadion is actually fairly old, it just got a major make-over in the late 80s.

But it's good to see one of the last few relicts of the 70s disappear. The Weserstadion reminds me of crappy places like the old Müngersdorfer Stadion or the Rheinstadion. I still remember watching a game in Cologne, standing close to the fence behind one of the goals. You could hardly make out what was happening at the other end of the pitch.

[Zaqattaq]

Looks great, I really hope Stuttgart build a new stadium in the near future

[ØlandDK]

That's cool...the current stadium isn't that great a stadium...And Werder really need a better stadium, with those great fans...
Same with Stuttgart btw!

[Quintana]

No, the new Luz was built next to the old one.

[GNU]

No, the new Luz was built next to the old one.

Yep, sorry thats correct.
I always thought that it was partly built upon the structures of the old stadium

[GNU]

Btw. After the construction works the stadium should have 80-100 exec boxes.
Also, a pier close to the stadium will make sure that visitors can come by boat.

Here is an interview from the werder-magazine about the new stadium with pics.
(Its in german)

Part 1:
http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/7729/wsus1ee0.jpg

Part 2:
http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/4388/wsus2yc5.jpg

Part 3:
http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/1269/wsus3zz9.jpg

Part 4:
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/401/wsus4yg3.jpg

[GNU]

Great news:
Werder is now officially allowed to enlarge the stadium to 50.000.
Construction start will probably already be this year and could be finished by the end of 2008 already.