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St. Pauli FC
Fußball-Club St Pauli von 1910 e.V., commonly known as simply FC St Pauli (), is a German professional football club based in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg, that competes in the 2. Bundesliga. The football department is part of a larger sports club that also has departments in rugby (FC St. Pauli Rugby), baseball, bowling, boxing (FC St. Pauli Boxen), chess, cycling, handball, roller derby (Harbor Girls Hamburg), skittles, softball, and table tennis and since 2011 Marathon. Until the end of 2013, the club also had a department in American football, but it was dissolved because it lacked the youth team required in order to hold a men's team. FC St. Pauli has 27,000 members as of November 2018. The men's professional football team dropped down to the Regionalliga in 2003, at that time the third highest football division in Germany and remained there for four years. In 2007, they won promotion back to the 2. Bundesliga and in 2010, they were promoted to the Bundesliga, the high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millerntor-Stadion
Millerntor-Stadion () is a multi-purpose stadium in the St. Pauli area of Hamburg, Germany. Best known as the home ground of Association football, football club FC St. Pauli, it is on the Heiligengeistfeld near the Reeperbahn, the red light district of Hamburg. The stadium had a capacity of 32,000 when it was built in 1961. It is also used by the Hamburg Blue Devils, Blue Devils American football team, and as a concert venue, including a performance by Prince (musician), Prince in 1988. FC St Pauli celebrated their centenary festival at the stadium in 2010. History The first sports ground at the Heiligengeistfeld was created after the First World War as a simple flat space. This was the home ground of the ''St. Pauli TV'', together with other workers sports associations (''Arbeitersportkartells''). In 1946, the club (now called ''FC St. Pauli'') built its own stadium partially on the original site of Hamburg Observatory, built in 1802 by Johann Georg Repsold and moved to Bergedo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
