Key facts<\/h3>\n

Club: FC Erzgebirge Aue | Opening: 1950 | Capacity: 16,485<\/p>\n

History and description<\/h3>\n

The Erzgebirgsstadion opened in 1950 under the name of Otto-Grotewohl-Stadion. It was built at the site where before the old St\u00e4dtisches Stadion had stood.<\/p>\n

The stadium officially opened on the 20th of August 1950 with a match between Erzbergbau and Waggonbau Dessau (3-3). It could hold about 25,000 spectators at that time.<\/p>\n

Over the years the stadium underwent several renovations, the first in the late 1980s, and later in 2004 and 2010. This gradually reduced capacity to its current number.<\/p>\n

In 1991, the stadium got renamed Erzgebirgsstadion. Twenty years later, in 2011, the sponsor name Sparkassen was placed in front as part of a naming rights deal that lasted until 2017.<\/p>\n

In 2015, the club started a redevelopment project that is to turn the Erzgebirgsstadion into a modern stadium. Over the course of three years, the entire stadium got demolished and rebuilt into a fully enclosed modern arena with a capacity of just under 16,500 places.<\/p>\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t

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(Erzgebirgsstadion before 2016)<\/p>\n

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