Rosenaustadion
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Rosenaustadion is a multi-use stadium in Augsburg, Germany. It is the largest stadium of Augsburg.
It is currently used mostly for football matches by the football club “FC Augsburg”. The stadium has an official capacity of 28,000 people. It was built in 1951.
From 1951 to 1972 the Rosenau-stadium possessed an outstanding meaning for the German sport, particularly in the disciplines football and athletics, due to its size and modernity. With the opening of Munich's olympic stadium 1972 shrank this position gradually.
The record attendance of FC Augsburg dates from 1973 with the play against the 1. FC Nuernberg with 42,000 spectators. The highest attendance at a football game was nearly 65,000 spectators on 9 November 1952 with the international match Germany – Switzerland.
The total record is from the year 1958, as 85.000 came to see the athletics team of Germany defeating the Russian team.
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