Gazi-Stadion a. d. Waldau

Gazi-Stadion an der Waldau sits in a pocket of Stuttgart where the city meets parkland.

The ground opened in 1905 on a plot leased the previous year, making it the oldest stadium in Germany still used by a professional club. It began as Kickers-Platz before the city took ownership in 1987 and renamed it Waldau-Stadion. A naming rights deal in 2004 settled on GAZi, and the club, SV Stuttgarter Kickers, has occupied the site ever since. The capacity sits at 11,436, a figure shaped by safety regulations that forced the removal of old earth embankments in 1997. A reconstruction of the main stand completed in 2015 added 2,271 seats and hospitality areas, bringing the total investment to 14.6 million Euros.

The pitch is natural grass, equipped with a heating system installed for the 2014-2015 renovation. While the stadium opened with 590 seats, it reached a peak of 15,000 when earth banks surrounded the pitch. The attendance record has stood since a 2007 German Bowl match between the Braunschweig Lions and the Stuttgart Scorpions. The ground has hosted DFB-Pokal first-round matches and a concert by MTV HipHop Open in 2001, but the largest crowd of 8,000 remains associated with a 1911 international match against Switzerland.