The PSD Bank Arena (formerly known as Stadion am Bornheimer Hang) is a multi-use
stadium in
Bornheim, a district of
Frankfurt am Main
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,
Germany
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, and is best accessed by the Johanna-Tesch-Platz
U-Bahn station, or (for away fans) the
Eissporthalle
''Eissporthalle'' (literally: ice sports hall) is German for an indoor ice rink. Most of them are used for ice hockey.
Specific ice rinks include:
*Eissporthalle Frankfurt
* Eissporthalle Gletscher
* Eissporthalle Iserlohn
* Eissporthalle Kassel
* ...
/Festplatz station. It is currently used mostly for
football matches and is the home stadium of
FSV Frankfurt
Fußballsportverein Frankfurt 1899 e.V., commonly known as simply FSV Frankfurt, is a German association football club based in the Bornheim district of Frankfurt am Main, Hesse and founded in 1899. FSV Frankfurt also fielded a rather successfu ...
and occasionally used to host
1. FFC Frankfurt (now Eintracht Frankfurt). It has a capacity of 12.542.
The inaugurational game was played on 11 October 1931, when FSV Frankfurt defeated
VfL Germania 1894
VfL Germania 1894 is a German association football club from the city of Frankfurt am Main. The club is notable as one of the Founding Clubs of the DFB (Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association) in Leipzig in 1900.Grüne, Hardy ( ...
, 3–0.
Since 2015 the stadium is also used by the
Frankfurt Universe, an American football team playing in the
German Football League
The German Football League (GFL) is an American football league in Germany and was formed in 1979. Playing rules are based on those of the American NCAA. In 1999, the league switched its name from ''American-Football-Bundesliga'' to ''German Foot ...
.
The stadium was host to the
Kosovo national football team
The Kosovo national football team ( sq, Kombëtarja e futbollit të Kosovës; sr, Фудбалска репрезентација Косова, Fudbalska reprezentacija Kosova) represents Kosovo in men's international football. The team is con ...
's first fully recognised international; a 2–0 win over the
Faroe Islands
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They are located north-northwest of Scotland, and about halfway bet ...
on 3 June 2016.
Beginning with the
inaugural season of the new
European League of Football
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, the
Frankfurt Galaxy played all their home games at the stadium.
References
External links
Stadium on Website of FSV Frankfurtpicture gallery at Stadionwelt
{{UEFA Women's Champions League Final venues
Football venues in Germany
Athletics (track and field) venues in Germany
FSV Frankfurt
Buildings and structures in Frankfurt
Football venues in Frankfurt
American football venues in Germany
1931 establishments in Germany
Sports venues completed in 1931
Frankfurt Galaxy (ELF)
European League of Football venues