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in Bornheim, a district of

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, and is best accessed by the Johanna-Tesch-Platz U-Bahn station, or (for away fans) the

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/Festplatz station. It is currently used mostly for

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matches and is the home stadium of

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and occasionally used to host

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(now Eintracht Frankfurt). It has a capacity of 12.542. The inaugurational game was played on 11 October 1931, when FSV Frankfurt defeated

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, 3–0. Since 2015 the stadium is also used by the

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, an American football team playing in the

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. The stadium was host to the

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's first fully recognised international; a 2–0 win over the

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on 3 June 2016. Beginning with the inaugural season of the new

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, the

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played all their home games at the stadium.

References

External links

Stadium on Website of FSV Frankfurt

picture gallery at Stadionwelt
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