The Sportplatz Leipzig was between 1892 and 1936 the largest sports complex in
Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...
, Germany. Today, the Kleinmesse and partly the RB Leipzig Training Center are located on the former grounds of the sports field.
History
The largest
football field on the site was gradually expanded to a stadium that could hold up to 20,000 spectators and corresponded to the former international court standards. This plant took the name '' Wettspielfeld '' from the inner surface of the velodrome. Several Leipzig football clubs, including the
SV Lipsia 1893, the
Leipziger BC 1893
Leipziger Ballspiel-Club was a Football in Germany, German association football club from Leipzig, Saxony.
History
Founded on 6 March 1893 in the Keglerheim (Nordstraße) as a football and cricket club at the instigation of a group of three Engli ...
, the
SC Wacker Leipzig and the