Hofmann Personal Stadion
The oddest thing about the Hofmann Personal Stadion is what's underneath it. The pitch sits on the roof of an XXXLutz furniture store, and the grass growing there is real, not artificial. It replaced the old Donauparkstadion, a modest ground of around 2,000 seats that came down at the end of 2021 to make way for the new build in the Kaplanhof district.
Blau-Weiß Linz opened the ground with a match against PSV Eindhoven on 15 July 2023, ten days after the official ceremony, and lost 1-2. It was a fitting scale of opponent for a club stepping up into a stadium built for something bigger than what came before: capacity rose to 5,595, with 2,800 of those places standing, more than double the old ground's room. The original plans called for 5,000 seats before the number was pushed higher during construction, which began in September 2021 under the Linz firm Margula & Mauch Architects.
The bill ran past €40 million, with Upper Austria's state government contributing €3 million toward it.
Who plays here
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FC BW Linz
127 matches
Recent matches here
| Date | Match | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Aug | FC BW Linz — Voitsberg | 5:1 |
| 7 Aug | FC BW Linz — Wacker Innsbruck | 3:0 |
| 18 Jul | FC BW Linz — Eintracht Braunschweig | 1:1 |
| 4 Jul | FC BW Linz — Wiener Viktoria | 4:0 |
| 3 Jul | FC BW Linz — Artis Brno | |
| 2 Jul | FC BW Linz — Dynamo Kyiv | |
| 16 May | FC BW Linz — Grazer AK | 0:3 |
| 24 Apr | FC BW Linz — SCR Altach | 3:0 |