Opened in 1956, upgraded in 1990s, major upgrade now in progress – reopening on July 2011. Arena is located in Park of Culture and Recreation, in city of Chorzów. Apart from beeing polish national football stadium it’s been site for variety of non-football events (athletics, cycling, speedway, Monster Jam etc.) It also hosted many music events - The Rolling Stones, Rammstein, Metallica, U2, Linkin Park, Genesis, Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and many others performed on Śląski. Record attendance was 120,000 visitors during Górnik Zabrze vs. Austria Wien football match back in 1963.
Silesian Stadium after modernization – specification:
Capacity:
- gross (total numer of seats): 55.211
- net (VIP seats, advertising and camera space etc.): 51.480
UEFA decides about hosting of Euro2012 for the cities&stadiums, not polish government.
After rebuilding, this stadium will have:
- 20 sky-boxes (for 325 VIP's)
- 1458 places for buisness class
- 750 places for media
- 250 places for commentators
But Likasz has right, Stadion Śląski (eng. Silesia Stadium) hasn't good visibility from old stands. I hope that rebuilding repair it.
It is only a silly fairy tale, some politician threw it of at least chances and logical reasons there is for the realization no it - maintaining the stadium still will cost a lot of money. I don't know for every generally speaking to place such nonsenses, the visibility at present is already bad, the new II level a lot won't correct, what one can see the 3rd level from whom nothing will be up to? Probably of technical possibilities for the expansion practically won't be.
The tender for the construction works was announced today.
Companies can submit their offers until 19JAN09.
Net value of the order: PLN 269 280 000 (approx. €67 600 000)
indeed this is a good stadium, but no offense, i don't think they will finish the reconstruction next year. Maybe the stadium will be finished in 2011, but definantly not next year.
A shame this stadium won't be increased to 70,000, that would have been a perfect capacity for this stadium. Anyway, to renovate the stadium, they would have to take down one-third of the stadium and a two-tiered stand would be constructed from scratch. To match the new stand, I would have torn down the existing two-tiered stand and built a completely new one before adding the roof. This would be like the renovation project of the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
The cool thing about this stadium is that the roof is a seperate structure from the bowl. So yes that means they can demolish/rebuild/expand the stadium after euro. Without removing the stadium.
The detailed project specifications of the roof have been finished yesterday. It appears that the roof, at least according to Polish Press Agency (PAP) will be the world's largest in terms of surface - 43,000 square meters. Anyone got details on other huge surfaces? I assume that retractable roofs don't count here.
To Michal: Are you saying that the Slaski stadium's proposed seat covering would be the largest in the world, which means it would surpass that of the King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh?
Jim, I'm not claiming that. I'm quoting the claims we have here in Poland from officials. I would be surprised if they bothered to check - I suppose it's just a publicity booster. But still, I haven't got enough reliable data to compare.
BTW - official website of King Fahd stadium engineers confirms it's bigger - 47 000. Plus, the new Wembley has a total of 52 000. So Polish is far from best
I wrote an e-mail to asp and they answered many questions.
Eberhard Becker frpm asp Stuttgart
"- Dachfläche: m² Gesamte Dachfläche: 46.400m², davon öffenbar 10.000m²"
they stopped to answer
at least to me
after the 4th mail i have never received an email from asp.
At least they sent me a pdf file of the seating bowl and they answered many questtions.
compare it to the likes of HOK Sport and they are still the socially-directed ones OK, back on track. We already have 3 stadiums with roof surface bigger than Slaski. So Publicity 1 Truth 0.
The view is not as bad as in the Visualisations...in fact it is much better
Also news: The tender for the stadium reconstruction has already been done. The Main contracter will be Hochtief, the cost will be 340 million PLN and the stadium will be ready in 24 monthes from the start of Construction which is planned for the fall of October 2009.
A consortium with Mostostal Zabrze win contract to modernize Stadion Śląski
Warszawa (PAP) - A consortium, consisting of Mostostal Zabrze, Hochtief Construction AG Thermoserr, will modernize the silesian stadium. The winning bid of the company was 339.8 million zlotys - this was announced on Thursday in a Mostostal Zabrze Communication.
The consortium is to construct a new roof and increase the stadiums capacity to 55211 by rebuilding the east stand as well as providing the necessary infrastructure and technical areas.
A consortium of Mostostal Zabrze submitted the lowest bid and the price was the only criteria for evaluation of tenders.
Another bid - submitted by Budimex-Dromex and Polimex-Mostostal - were more expensive by about 9 and 13 million. (PAP)
Construction starts october mate but its 100% certain with all the contractors chosen and all the tender procedure is behind us...its been specially delayed so Poland can play there WC qualifying games at the stadium against N.Ireland and Slovakia
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