The Zentralstadion (Central Stadium), located in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, is the premier football facility in the former East Germany. It has served as the home of FC Sachsen Leipzig which will soon make way for RB Leipzig the latest football team property of energy drink maker Red Bull. A new licensing agreement with the company will see the facility renamed.
In 1956, the first Zentralstadion opened, at the time it was the biggest stadium in Ge...
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The Zentralstadion (Central Stadium), located in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, is the premier football facility in the former East Germany. It has served as the home of FC Sachsen Leipzig which will soon make way for RB Leipzig the latest football team property of energy drink maker Red Bull. A new licensing agreement with the company will see the facility renamed.
In 1956, the first Zentralstadion opened, at the time it was the biggest stadium in Germany being able to hold 100,000 spectators. However, over the years it fell in to disuse and was costing the city too much to maintain. In 1997, the city of Leipzig decided to build a new stadium within the old stadium, a modern state of the art stadium only for football. The new stadium was built from December 2000 till March 2004.
The Zentralstadion hosted four group matches and a round of 16 game in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. A year earlier, it was also one of the venues for the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup and hosted three matches of the...
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