Europa-Park Stadion

The SC-Stadion, known as the Europa-Park Stadion for sponsorship reasons, is an under-construction football stadium in Freiburg, Germany. It will primarily serve as the new home stadium of SC Freiburg, replacing the club's former home, the Schwarzwald-Stadion. It is located in a part of the city called Bruhl, near the airport.

History

The stadium used by SC Freiburg up until now, the Dreisamstadion, opened in 1954, no longer meets the requirements of a modern stadium due to a pitch that is too small (100.5 m × 68 m), and also a gradient of 98 cm from the goal in the south to the goal in the north towards the Dreisam. It is only allowed to be continuously used because of a special permit issued by the DFL. For some time now, there have been discussions about a rebuilding of the stadium or a new construction. In order to examine the economic viability of converting the Dreisamstadion, the club commissioned a study from Freyler, according to which a conversion would take eleven years and cost only slightly less than a new building.

The Freiburg local councils ordered an assessment report from the auditing company Ernst & Young in the spring of 2012. The report described a conversion time of only three years but calculated far superior costs. According to the report, there was no viable solution on the old site. This led to the assessment and comparison of further locations. In December 2012, the Freiburg city council voted in favour of the construction of a new stadium and confirmed the assessment of three possible locations. The joint task force of club and city agreed on the Wolfswinkel location next to the airfield and the university engineering faculty building in the district of Bruhl. The advantages of the site are the good transport connections and the possibility to set up training grounds in the surrounding area. With the exception of 200 m² which belong to the university, the site belongs to the city. The Hettlinger allotment gardens near the Messe in the western part o