Rosenaustadion

Rosenaustadion is a stadium in Augsburg, Germany. It is the former home of football club “FC Augsburg”. The stadium has an official capacity of 32,354 people. It was built in 1951.

From 1951 to 1972 the Rosenau-stadium possessed an outstanding meaning for the German sport, particularly in the disciplines football and athletics, due to its size and modernity. With the opening of Munich’s olympic stadium 1972 shrank this position gradually.

The record attendance of FC Augsburg dates from 1973 with 42,000 spectators. The highest attendance at a football game was nearly 65,000 spectators on 9 November 1952 with the international match Germany – Switzerland.

The total record is from the year 1958, as 85.000 came to see the athletics team of Germany defeating the Russian team.

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