"I hope that we can set a great example for other clubs" - SC Freiburgs new stadium has the capacity to become climate neutral
Alamy
On October 7, SC Freiburg inaugurated their new Europa-Park Stadium with room for 34,700 spectators.
The new stadium replaced the outdated Dreisamstadion, SC Freiburg’s home for 67 years, which was outdated with a sloping pitch that was too short, and a stadium and hospitality areas that had become too small for a modern Bundesliga club.
With extensive solar power, green-energy storage, plug-in charging stations and much more, the new Europa Park Stadium has the capacity to become climate neutral.
A Baden-Wurttemberg court has imposed restrictions on SC Freiburg forbidding the side from hosting Bundesliga games at their new ground on Friday nights and Sunday afternoons following noise complaints.
The matter had been brought to court and is currently unresolved.
2 November 2021 - 7:21 PM
When the starting eleven of SC Freiburg entered the pitch of the newly-inaugurated Europa Park Stadion on October 16 to lock horns with RB Leipzig, it marked the culmination of 11 years of planning and 40 assessments, with no less than 25 potential sites having been examined to find the right location.
A public referendum in 2015 won by a margin of 58 per cent had paved the way for the development of the stadium - a process accompanied by noise complaints but which has ultimately pr
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