Heidewaldstadion is an

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stadium in

Gütersloh Gütersloh () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the area of Westphalia and the administrative region of Detmold. Gütersloh is the administrative centre for a district of the same name and has a population of 100,194 peo ...

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, Germany. It is the biggest football stadium in

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and currently has a capacity of 8,400 spectators. It is the home stadium of the

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football team playing in the

Oberliga Westfalen The Oberliga Westfalen is the highest level football league in the region of Westphalia, which is part of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The league existed from 1978 to 2008, but was then replaced by the NRW-Liga, a new statewide league. Wi ...

. The Heidewaldstadion is located in the Sundern district on the southern outskirts of Gütersloh. The stadium takes its name from the small wooded area to the west of the stadium. The Heidewaldstraße runs south of the stadium, where the V.I.P. parking spaces are also located. In August 2017, the club sold the sponsor name to Energieversum, a Gütersloh-based company from the

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. The stadium is officially called Energieversum Stadion, for

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reason. The Portugal national team based their training camp for the

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finals at

Marienfeld Marienfeld is a large (2.6 km² / 640 acres) grassy field on the reclaimed site of a former open-pit lignite mine about south-west of Cologne Cathedral in the city of Cologne, Germany, straddling the towns of Frechen and Kerpen. The min ...

in Kreis Gütersloh, so a public training session of the soccer stars took place in Gütersloh. The stadium also hosted a game of the 4th World Football Championships for para-athletes with an intellectual disability (Russia vs. Northern Ireland 0-0). The Turkey national team prepared for the

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at Marienfeld, too, and had a public training session in the Heidewaldstadion on May, 22nd. File:Heidewald 02 Guetersloh.jpg, FCG supporters File:Heidewaldstadion-tribuene.jpg, The roofed grandstands with seating for 1,150 spectators File:Heidewald-rueckseite.jpg, Behind the stands File:Heidewaldstadion-2006-06-13.jpg, Training session of the Portugal national team, June 2006

References

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