ST, JAKOB PARK STADIUM FACTS AND NUMBERS
May 7th, 2008
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Franks is how much the FC Basel paid for the new stadium, yet it does not belong to the club. The FC Basel is "only" a tenant at the St. Jakob-Park.
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stadium management: Basel United AG is, amongst other things, responsible for the marketing and running of St. Jakob-Park as well as for the production and organization of events in the stadium. Basel United AG is a public company with share capital amounting to CHF 100,000.- (fully paid in) and a 100% subsidiary of the Genossenschaft Stadion St. Jakob-Park. The stadium, the senior citizen home Tertianum and the Shopping Center St. Jakob-Park are the three components of the St. Jakob-Park.
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architects built the St. Jakob-Park together with the general contractor Marazzi: Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, both from Basel. The architect duo achieved world-wide fame before building the stadium in Basel, for example with the construction of the Tate Modern in London. On the basis of their work at the St. Jakob-Park, Herzog&deMeuron were commissioned to build the stadium in Munich (Allianz-Arena) and the Olympic and National Stadium in Beijing.
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investors made the construction of the St. Jakob-Park possible: Suva, Winterthur Insurance and the Pension Plan of Basel’s Civil Servants.
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stars were awarded to the new stadium St. Jakob-Park by UEFA in May 2002. This is the highest honour a stadium with about 30,000 seats can achieve.
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layers are between the concrete and the grass of the stadium: roofing cardboard, protective felt, gravel, sand and humus. This foundation underneath the grass is only 85 cm thick. Directly underneath the foundation lies the concrete roof of the car park. The foundation also features a 12 km long neoprene tube for ventilating the grass and subsurface irrigation. Additionally there is a 24 km long pipe system for heating the grass.
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floors. This is how many floors the senior citizen home Tertianum takes up. 107 different-sized flats between the 4th and 9th floor are available to senior citizens.
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minutes is how long it would take to evacuate the full stadium in an emergency, according to a scenario.
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minutes is the time it takes for the train to travel from Basel’s main train station to the station at St. Jakob-Park and back again. The train station is the only element of the St. Jakob-Park that was co-financed by the Canton Basel-City. The SBB (Swiss National Railways) and the Canton jointly contributed 5.9 million (Canton Basel-City 4.9 Mio, SBB 1 Mio).
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tonnes. That is how much either of the two LED-screens (Light Emitting Diodes), mounted on the roof of sectors B and D, weighs. The lit-up area on each screen amounts to 44m2.
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boxes with views of the pitch have been leased to various companies for three to ten years. There are a total of 11 boxes: Box No. 1 belongs to the Genossenschaft Stadion St. Jakob-Park and is marketed by Basel United Stadion-Management AG. This box can be leased on request for individual matches.
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surveillance cameras are mounted in and around the stadium. Every single row of seats can be zoomed in on.
70
metres high. That will be the height of the tower of the project "St. Jakob-Park Plus".
105
metres long and 68 metres wide is the size of the pitch at the St. Jakob-Park. This is exactly what the international regulations require. The diagonal measures 125 metres.
220
monitors are mounted to transmit inhouse TV in the ambulatory, the Premium Lounge and in the boxes.
300
journalists have been accredited just for the Champions League-Match FC Basel - ManU. The journalists have a state-of-the-art Media Centre as well as sufficient media spots at their disposal.
680
indoor parking spaces, distributed on two levels, are available in the St. Jakob-Park. The multi-storey car park is managed by the Shopping Centre St. Jakob. There are an additional 1,465 parking lots in front of the St. Jakob’s Hall.
2008
is the year in which the Football European Championships take place in Switzerland/Austria. The St. Jakob-Park is the main stadium in Switzerland in which six matches, including the opening match and one semi-final, are held.
42,500
seats will be available at the stadium St. Jakob-Park during EURO 2008. Afterwards the individual sitting spaces will be enlargened to gradually reduce the number of seats to a total of 38,500.
58,000
places (seated and standing) was the capacity of the old "Joggeli". It was built in 1952/1953 in light of the World Cup in Switzerland in 1954 and cost a whopping CHF 1.9 million.
633,979
people visited the St. Jakob-Park in 2005, for tours and events, for national and international football matches. In total, 612 non-football-related events and 461 tours (about 15,000 people) took place.
