Fortuna Düsseldorf Arena

Business visitors may also be in town to visit one of the numerous trade shows that base themselves in Dusseldorf.

For the architecturally minded fans, take a stroll around the MedienHafen district in the south of the city. The harbour area retains its old wharfs and cranes that served the city so well now standing strong and proud in retirement.

A tour around the MedienHafen area is available for 12 Euros. Areas of the waterfront have been opened up in recent years.

This gives locals and visitors the opportunity to leisurely stroll or have a lazy latte as the fast-flowing Rhine heads north and west towards its North Sea end.

To see the local Altbier up close and personal there is a special tour available which takes you to five microbreweries across the city.

For just For night life you really do not need to leave the Aldstadt area of the city; we counted at least 5 Irish bars within a square mile and there are over bars, restaurants, breweries and cafes in this buzzing district of the city.

Alternatively, for a slightly more sophisticated evening, the architecturally impressive MedienHafen also boasts a growing number of bars and restaurants.

T here are accommodation options in good proximity to the stadium; in fact the Tulip Inn is built into the stadium complex.

One recommendation is Tolstov-Aparthotels Old town Burgplatz which is clean, roomy and just right for the needs of a stadium traveler.

The best twitter account for tourism tips would be the VisitDusseldorf account and their accompanying tourism website. Pauli waren In der neuen 3.

FC Union Berlin. Terminkollisionen mit dem eigentlichen Hauptnutzer Fortuna Düsseldorf konnten vermieden werden. Es sollte im Sommer wieder zur Verfügung stehen.

Mit dem Liga-Endspiel World Bowl fanden am Juni sowie am Mai auch zwei Höhepunkte dieser Sportart auf europäischer Ebene in Düsseldorf statt.

Infolgedessen wurde auch das Düsseldorfer Team, welches zuletzt auch seine Büros in der Arena hatte, aufgelöst. Bei der Planung wurde vor allem auf Multifunktionalität Wert gelegt.

Das Stadion wurde am 7. Im Rahmen des Weltjugendtages fand am August einer von drei Eröffnungsgottesdiensten vor Die Neuapostolische Kirche feierte vom Mai mit American football games, concerts, boxing matches and religious events have also been held at the Düsseldorf Arena, in addition to Germany national-team games, and two Portugal friendlies — a win against Saudi Arabia in and a loss to Greece two years later.

The 1. Like 1. FC Kaiserslautern , Fortuna has just two wins against fives losses. FC Köln has four wins and six losses in the Cup final, while Schalke 04 has been frustrated most often, with five wins and seven losses.

Four of the Düsseldorfer's losses were by a single goal and two of those were in extra time. The club's best turn in European competition was in the European Cup Winners' Cup Final , where it finished as runners-up to Barcelona , losing 4—3 in extra time in an exciting finale at Basel.

It was the first of four occasions that the Catalan club won the tournament. Fortuna achieved its success mostly with hometown players like the famous Allofs brothers Klaus Allofs and Thomas Allofs or players like Gerd Zewe games in the Bundesliga , Dieter Herzog , Reiner Geye , Wolfgang Seel and Rudi Bommer who joined the team as nearly unknown players and ended as internationals.

Between and , Peter Meyer scored goals in games. Since its relegation in , Fortuna has bounced back and forth between leagues, spending five more seasons in the Bundesliga in —92 and —97 and slipping as low as Oberliga Nordrhein IV in — In , the club escaped relegation to tier IV only because two other clubs were denied licenses to play in tier III for financial reasons.

Fortuna had its own money problems at the time but have since managed to arrange its finances more or less back into order.

Between and , the club was sponsored by German punk rock band Die Toten Hosen. In —09 , Fortuna competed in the newly established 3.

Liga , finishing second and gaining automatic promotion to the 2. Bundesliga , where it finished fourth in its comeback season, — In this season, Fortuna was the only side unbeaten in home-matches in the three top German nationwide leagues.

After a promising —10 season, the —11 season began poorly for Fortuna. After the first six games of the season, the club was in last place, having lost every match.

Despite this discouraging start, Fortuna bounced back and finished the season in seventh place. The "Herbstmeister" title gave the team and the fans hope that this could be the year Fortuna returned to the Bundesliga.

The second half of the season was more challenging, as Fortuna was unable to maintain its pace: it suffered four losses and a number of draws, slipping to third place in the final standings.

The first game of the relegation was played on 10 May in Berlin , with Fortuna winning 2—1. Fortuna drew the deciding game which was played on 15 May in Düsseldorf.

Hertha fans, however, threw firecrackers at the field and the players, and one minute before the match ended, overexcited Fortuna fans stormed the field.

The promotion to the Bundesliga represented an extraordinary personal achievement for team captain Andreas Lambertz , as he became the first player in German football history to be promoted three times with the same club, from the then fourth-tier Oberliga to the Bundesliga.

For striker Sascha Rösler , it marked the fourth time in his career that he was promoted from the Second Division into the Bundesliga.

Coming with the recent promotion, the club achieved a new record in German football history, becoming the only German club that has been relegated from the Bundesliga down to a fourth-tier league time period of downfall: — and promoted back to the Bundesliga afterwards time period of uprising: — Fortuna started the —13 Bundesliga season strongly: after five games, it was in fifth place in the table [4] and concerns about relegation seemed to have been put to rest.

However, Fortuna's 1—0 home win over SpVgg Greuther Fürth on 16 February would prove to be the club's final victory of the season. Our website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to our visitors.

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