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The Tivoli, colloquially known as the new Tivoli, is a
football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
stadium in the Sportpark Soers in
Aachen Aachen is the List of cities in North Rhine-Westphalia by population, 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, 27th-largest city of Germany, with around 261,000 inhabitants. Aachen is locat ...
, Germany, that opened on 17 August 2009 replacing the nearby old Tivoli. It hosts the home matches of
Alemannia Aachen Aachener Turn- und Sportverein Alemannia 1900 e. V., short Alemannia Aachen (), is a German football club from the western city of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia. A long-term fixture of the country's second division, Alemannia enjoyed a three- ...
in the
3. Liga The 3. Liga is a professional association football league and the third division in Germany. In the German football league system, it is positioned between the 2. Bundesliga and the fourth-tier Regionalliga. The modern 3. Liga was formed for t ...
. The stadium has a capacity of 32,920 spectators – space for 11,681 standing spectators, 19,345 seated spectators and others at 1,934. The (all-)seating capacity for international games is set at 27,250. The city first suggested the new stadium should be built outside the city, near the local airport. However, fans wanted the stadium built within the city. After much debate, plans were released in February 2007, showing that the new stadium would be built in Sportpark Soers, the sporting area the previous stadium was in. About €4.2 million of the construction costs were financed by bonds mainly targeted at supporters of Alemannia Aachen. The first match in the new stadium was against the Belgian team Lierse SK, but it was closed for the public. The first Bundesliga-match took place on 17 August 2009 against
FC St. Pauli Fußball-Club St. Pauli von 1910 e.V., commonly known as simply FC St. Pauli (), is a German professional association football, football club based in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg. The team plays in the Bundesliga from the 2024–25 Bundesli ...
which Aachen lost 0–5, which was the highest home-defeat in Aachen's history. The first international match was on 4 September 2009 when the
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played their first match of the
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against
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, which they won 6–0. In June 2023, it was announced that the city of Aachen agreed to 1. FC Düren's application to use the stadium for the 2023/24
Regionalliga West The Regionalliga West is a German professional football division administered by the German Football Association#Western Germany, Western German Football Association based in Duisburg. It is one of the five German regional football associations. ...
season. Without the right to play their home games at the Tivoli, 1. FC Düren would not have been granted a license for the Regionalliga West and would thus inevitably have been relegated. The Düren stadium is being made suitable for Regionallia West play in the meantime.


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Gallery

File:Aachen Tivoli under construction.JPG, New Tivoli under construction File:Aachen Lousberg Neubau Tivoli.jpg, New Tivoli under construction, as viewed from Lousberg File:Tivoli-Ost-Tribüne.JPG, The East Stand File:Tivoli-Bitburger Wall.jpg, The South Stand (Renamed ''Werner-Fuchs-Tribüne'' in honour of
Werner Fuchs Werner Fuchs (25 October 1948 – 11 May 1999) was a German football player and coach. Playing career Fuchs was born in Kaiserslautern. A centre forward, he began his professional career in 1967 with a professional contract at 1. FC Kais ...
since July 2021.) File:Tivoli-Nord-Tribüne.jpg, The North Stand File:Tivoli-Ticket.JPG, A ticket for a match between Germany and the Netherlands, played in the Tivoli


See also

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List of football stadiums in Germany The following is a list of football stadiums in Germany with a total capacity of at least 20,000 spectators (seating and standing). Below a list of stadiums with a capacity of at least 10,000. Stadiums in bold are part of the 2024–25 Bundeslig ...
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Lists of stadiums The following are lists of stadiums throughout the world. Note that horse racing and motorsport venues are not included at some pages, because those are not stadiums but sports venues. Combined lists *List of stadiums by capacity * List of c ...


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Stadium information
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