Stadium Name: | PreZero Arena |
Fullname: | Rhein-Neckar-Arena |
Location: | Sinsheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
Broke Ground: | 2007 |
Opened: | 24 January 2009 |
Surface: | Grass |
Construction Cost: | € 60 million |
Architect: | Eheim Moebel[1] Sattler Europe[2] |
Tenants: | TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (2009–present) Germany national football team (selected matches) |
Seating Capacity: | 30,150 (league matches) 25,589 (international matches) |
Rhein-Neckar-Arena (pronounced as /de/), currently known as PreZero Arena and previously as Wirsol Rhein-Neckar-Arena pronounced as /de/[3] for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in Sinsheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of TSG Hoffenheim. The stadium has a capacity of 30,150 people.[4] It replaced TSG 1899 Hoffenheim's former ground, the Dietmar-Hopp-Stadion.
The stadium is the largest in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan area, although it is situated in a town with only 3,600 inhabitants.
The first competitive match was played on 31 January 2009 against FC Energie Cottbus, and ended in a 2–0 win for Hoffenheim.[5] The stadium hosted international matches at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.[4] The Rhein-Neckar-Arena hosted the "2017 DEL Winter Game", an outdoor ice hockey game between Adler Mannheim and the Schwenningen Wild Wings on 7 January 2017.
The Sinsheim-Museum/Arena S-Bahn stop at the Elsenz Valley Railway (Elsenztalbahn) is just over a kilometre walk away[6] and there are shuttle buses from Sinsheim main station. The stadium can be reached by car via the newly built Sinsheim-Süd junction of the federal motorway 6.
Date | Competition | Team | Result | Team | Attendance |
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9 September 2018 | Friendly | 2–1 | 25,494 | ||
26 March 2022 | 2–0 | 25,600 |
Date | Time (CET) | Team #1 | Result | Team #2 | Round | Spectators | |
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26 June 2011 | 25,475 | ||||||
2 July 2011 | 25,475 | ||||||
5 July 2011 | 20,451 | ||||||
16 July 2011 | 25,475 |