VfL-Stadion am Elsterweg, Football stadium in Wolfsburg, Germany.
The VfL-Stadion am Elsterweg is a football venue in Wolfsburg featuring a grass pitch, running track, and covered stands accommodating approximately 17,600 spectators. The facility offers modern infrastructure for matches and training sessions at the amateur level.
A sports ground was laid out east of the KdF-Wagen school around 1940; the stadium on that site was inaugurated on 10 October 1947 as the new home of VfL Wolfsburg's first men's team. A covered main stand, built from concrete elements to plans by Wolfsburg architect Hans Tiedemann at a cost of 720,000 DM shared by the city and the Volkswagenwerk, opened on 1 May 1961. After the men's promotion to the Bundesliga in 1997 the stadium was renovated and expanded to 21,600 places, then reduced to 17,600 after the professionals moved to the Volkswagen Arena, where their last match here was played on 23 November 2002.
The stadium's name comes from its street, Am Elsterweg, east of the former KdF-Wagen school site. Since the professionals left in 2002, the women's Bundesliga team and the second men's team played here, and the athletics department of VfL Wolfsburg uses the running track. On 25 October 2001 Conny Pohlers scored five goals for Germany in a 9-0 win over Portugal here.
The stadium sits on Elsterweg in eastern Wolfsburg, with a six-lane athletics track encircling the pitch. Since the VfL women's and reserve teams moved to the AOK Stadion in the Allerpark at the start of 2015, the ground has hosted the club's athletics department. The future of the site is undecided because the grounds need costly remediation.
The covered main stand opened on 1 May 1961, built from concrete elements to plans by Wolfsburg architect Hans Tiedemann; the 720,000 DM cost was shared by the city and the Volkswagenwerk. It is now listed as a protected monument and could be incorporated into a future multi-purpose hall on the site.
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