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Population: 525,000
Stadium: FIFA World Cup Stadium, Hanover
Scheduled Work: Reconstruction
Investment: €63m

Total Seating Capacity: 39,297 

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Hannover:

The Niedersachsenstadion was completed in 1954 and has been home to Hannover 96 since 1959. Both Brazil and Holland played matches here during the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

  • An announcement from the sports committee of the city of Hanover in January 2001 invited investment bids for a new, purpose-built football stadium.
  • Four offers were tabled (two for reconstruction/two for new stadia).
  • On 5 November ,2001, the administrative committee of the city of Hannover decided to reconstruct the 1954-built Niedersachsenstadion.
  • The reconstruction design was finally chosen by the city council of Hannover in their session on December 13, 2001.
  • Building work will begin in March 2003 with the tear-down of the North stands, and progress until the scheduled completion date of 1 April 2005, or even earlier.
  • Major steps during the remodelling: Summer 2003 – playing pitch is moved towards West stands and tear-down of the East stands as well as the South curve; Summer of 2004 – installation of new roof, installation of new flood lights as well as a heating system for the grass field; end of 2004 – completion of the East stands.

The first documented mention of Hanover dates from the year 1150. Its charter as a city was confirmed in 1241, and in 1636 it was proclaimed the capital of the Welf dynasty. In 1866, the Kingdom of Prussia ended the rule of the Kingdom of Hanover, which had experienced its era of greatest importance during its personal union with the Kings of England from 1714 to 1837.

Hanover, which has been the capital city of Lower Saxony since 1946 and is one of Germany's ten largest cities, is a major international trade fair location. Two of the most important trade fairs, the Hanover Fair and CEBIT, are held at the city's new conference center. The trade fair center will also be one of the locations for EXPO 2000, where the World Fair will be held at the end of the millennium under its motto "Man - Nature - Technology ". More than 20 million guests from all over the world are expected to visit this event.

Hanover's unique Sports Park is one of the city's outstanding features, with the combined advantage of bordering on the city centre while at the same time being part of a large recreational area around Maschsee Lake. The conditions are practically ideal there both for topperformance and for mass sports.

In addition to the "Niedersachsenstadion" and the State Lower Saxony Sports College, where sporting skills are taught by the state's official sports associations, the Sports Park also contains an indoor stadium for all indoor sports, a combined- event facility, hard courts and a stadium swimming pool. Maschsee Lake is a training site for rowing, canoeing and sailing clubs.

Major Events at the Hanover Niedersachsenstadion
  • World Cup 1974
  • EURO 88
  • International games
  • German Championship finals