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21-435: The stadium was officially opened on February 28, 1926, with a match between Duisburger SV and Arminia Bielefeld . At that time, it was called "Städtisches Stadion am Gräfenbusch", before being renamed to Stadion Niederrhein three years later, a name which has not been changed since. From the year 1970 on, the at the time brightest floodlights in a European stadium provided enough light to allow color television broadcasts for

42-416: A single point behind division winners TSV Fortuna Düsseldorf . The following season TSV and TuS were directed by Nazi sport authorities to merge to play as TuS Duisburg 48/99. This team struggled, several times narrowly missing relegation, until another second-place result in 1942. World War II had a significant impact on German football often leading to the merger of teams weakened in the conflict. In 1943

63-418: Is a number of stations in the surrounding area, with the closest to the stadium being "Schloss Oberhausen" on line 122. On matchdays, additional direct busses to transport fans from the train stations Oberhausen, Sterkrade , and Osterfeld to the stadium are provided. Duisburger SV Eintracht Duisburg is a German sports club from the city of Duisburg , North Rhine-Westphalia . Founded in 1848, it

84-619: Is one of the country's oldest sport associations. The club originated in a coming together of a number of earlier clubs, the most important of these being the Duisburger Turngemeinde für Erwachsene von 1848  – predecessor of the Duisburger Spielverein  – and TuS Duisburg 48/99 . It was these two sides that fused to create today's club on 24 July 1964. Duisburger SV was one of the most successful sides of early football in western Germany. The team

105-810: The INAS World Football Championships 2006 for athletes with intellectual disabilities two years later, the match between France and Hungary (1:3) was hosted in the Stadion Niederrhein. In the 2009/10 season of the UEFA Women's Champions League , the women's football club FCR 2001 Duisburg held two of their home matches in Oberhausen, because the floodlights in the PCC-Stadion in Duisburg did not satisfy

126-613: The UEFA requirements. Major motorcycle speedway events took place at the stadium including rounds of the Speedway World Championship in 1956 and 1958. In 1950, the record attendance of around 45,000 spectators was achieved when Preußen Dellbrück and Kickers Offenbach met in the semi-final for the German championship. The match ended with a 3:0 win for Offenbach. Stadion Niederrhein can be reached by bus. There

147-520: The formation of the Bundesliga in 1963. It covered the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , the most populous state of Germany. The league was created in 1947 as the highest level of football in the newly created state of North Rhine-Westphalia , then part of the British occupation zone . It replaced the various Gauligas , which had existed until 1945 in the region: The league was, together with

168-588: The Bundesliga were: The following teams from the Oberliga went to the new Regionalliga: The qualifying system for the new league was fairly complex. The league placings of the clubs playing in the Oberligen for the last ten seasons were taken into consideration, whereby results from 1952 to 1955 counted once, results from 1955 to 1959 counted double and results from 1959 to 1963 triple. A first-place finish

189-596: The Oberliga Nord, the last of the five Oberligas to be formed, the other four being: The Oberliga West was formed from thirteen clubs from the Landesligas Niederrhein, Mittelrhein and Westfalen. The Landesligas remained the second tier of football in the West until 1949, when the 2. Oberliga West was formed. With the reintroduction of the German championship in 1948, the winner and runners-up of

210-604: The Oberliga West went on to the finals tournament with the other Oberliga champions. The Oberliga West, together with the Oberliga Süd, were the strongest of the five Oberligas, winning six German titles each in the Oberliga period from 1948 to 1963. With the introduction of the Bundesliga, five teams from the Oberliga West were admitted to the new Bundesliga. The remaining clubs went to the new Regionalliga West , one of five new second divisions. The teams admitted to

231-565: The clubs eligible for the remaining seven places to 20. Clubs within the same Oberliga that were separated by less than 50 points were considered on equal rank and the 1962-63 placing was used to determine the qualified team. All Oberliga West clubs except TSV Marl-Hüls applied for Bundesliga membership. Borussia Dortmund, 1. FC Köln and FC Schalke 04 qualified early. Meidericher SV and Preußen Münster qualified even though both clubs had less points than Alemannia Aachen . Aachen finished fifth, Meidericher SV came in fourth and Preußen Münster earned

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252-658: The first time. 1982, tartan tracks were added, and in the year 1996 the old scoreboard from the Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion in Leverkusen was installed, a gift from Bayer 04 Leverkusen to the city of Oberhausen. In the two following years, the standing and the main terrace were renovated. The construction works were finished in 1998 and the stadium was reopened in time for the new season of the 2. Bundesliga . With Rot-Weiß Oberhausen being promoted to 2. Bundesliga in 2008, again renovations were needed to meet

273-616: The following season in a failed attempt to revive the fortunes of these two sides. By the late 70s the combined club had fallen to the Landesliga Niederrhein (IV) and by the turn of the millennium they were toiling in the Kreisliga B Duisburg (VIII). Oberliga West The Oberliga West (English: Premier League West ) was the highest level of the German football league system in the west of Germany from 1947 until

294-594: The gymnasts forming Duisburger TV 1848 and the footballers forming Duisburger TSV 1899. This football club played two seasons in the Gauliga Niederrhein , one of sixteen top-flight divisions formed in the 1933 re-organization of German football under the Third Reich , before being relegated. TuS 48/99 then made its own appearance in the Gauliga earning a second-place finish in the 1936–37 season, only

315-563: The late 20s winning a total of ten West German championships between 1904 and 1927. After their final championship the club faded from prominence. They did not re-appear in upper-tier football until after World War II when they advanced to play in the Oberliga West in 1949. Generally a mid-table side, the club's best result was a second-place finish in 1957 and, except for a short period from 1951 to 1954, DSV played first division football until 1962. A last-place result that season ensured

336-498: The requirements from the DFL . As part of this, the turf was replaced completely and undersoil heating was installed. At the beginning of the year 2017, works to replace parts of the old standing area began. The new standing terraces were opened in 2018. The stadium was one of the four grounds of the 2004 UEFA European Under-21 Championship . Three group stage matches, one semi-final and the match for third place took place in Oberhausen. At

357-626: The team would not be part of the newly formed sixteen-team Bundesliga , Germany's first professional league, going on to play instead in the Regionalliga West (II). The origins of TuS Duisburg 48/99 go back to the founding in 1899 of Duisburger Fussball Klub. In 1903, this club merged with SV Viktoria 1893 to create Duisburger SV Viktoria 1899. They were joined in 1921 by five-month-old Turn-Borussia Duisburg thereby becoming TuS. The earliest of Eintracht's predecessor sides, Duisburger TSV 1848 then gave rise to two separate clubs in 1923 with

378-495: The war. TuS disappeared into relative obscurity in local play while DSV went on to play in the first division Oberliga West, making a short two-season appearance there in the early 50s before settling into top flight play by the middle of the decade. The club again earned a second-place result in 1957, this time behind eventual national champions Borussia Dortmund . After their last place finish in 1962 and fall out of first division play, DSV joined TuS 48/99 to form Eintracht Duisburg

399-408: The wartime side (Kriegsspielgemeinschaft) KSG SpV/48/99 Duisburg was created out of TuS 48/99 and Duisburger SpV. This combined club captured the division title before going out in the second round of the national playoffs to the era's powerhouse FC Schalke 04 . The following year the Gauliga Niederrhein collapsed as Allied armies advanced into Germany. DSV and TuS re-emerged as separate sides after

420-466: Was awarded 16 points, a sixteenth place one point. Appearances in the German championship or DFB-Pokal finals were also rewarded with points. The five Oberliga champions of the 1962-63 season were granted direct access to the Bundesliga. All up, 46 clubs applied for the 16 available Bundesliga slots. Following this system, by 11 January 1963, the DFB announced nine fixed clubs for the new league and reduced

441-490: Was formed out of Duisburger TfE on 22 March 1900 on the initiative of Gottfried Hinz, who would later go on to become president of the German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball Bund). Between 1900 and 1913, SV made regular appearances in the national playoffs, twice advancing to the semi-finals, and contesting the final in 1913 against VfB Leipzig , losing 1–3. The club played as a strong side into

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