When visiting a fan club, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge speaks of an Allianz Arena for 100,000 spectators. Now the city of Munich is reacting to FC Bayern's reverie.
- Karl-Heinz Rummenigge speaks of an Allianz Arena for 100,000 spectators.
- FC Bayern could not fulfill this capacity because of TSV 1860 Munich .
- City of Munich now replies to an application as to whether capacity expansion would be possible.
Munich - An international title has so far been denied to FC Bayern * in its Allianz Arena
In 2022, the record champions will most likely have the next chance when the Champions League final will take place in Munich for the third time after 1997 and 2012.
Allianz Arena: FC Bayern Munich dreamed of 100,000 spectators
The “Drama dahoam” 2012, which FC Bayern * lost to Chelsea, showed that the stadium was the right setting for such an event. And yet Karl-Heinz Rummenigge apparently would like to have an even larger stadium.
After its completion in 2005, the capacity of the Allianz Arena * had been expanded from 66,000 at the time to 75,000 by 2015. Rummenigge, on the other hand, even dreamed of 100,000 spectators.
Rummenigge about Allianz Arena: "Franz Beckenbauer always said ..."
This was indicated by the boss of the double winner's board in December when he visited the Bavaria fan club “Antisental” in Austria.
“ Franz Beckenbauer always said: let's build a 100,000-man stadium. Back then, these 30,000 more would have cost a lot more money - I estimate 250 million, " Rummenigge said according to the picture and said:" The four-figure club could never have done that. "
Chief executive of FC Bayern: Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.
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Background: FC Bayern and city rival TSV 1860 Munich had planned and built the arena at the time.
The cost of the loan for the construction quickly overwhelmed the "Munich Lions", which is why the Giesinger had to sell their shares in the football temple to the unloved neighbors - for a manageable eleven million euros at the time.
Allianz Arena: City of Munich comments on the FC Bayern stadium
So if Rummenigge is concerned , only the (much smaller) city rival prevented the construction of a stadium for 100,000 spectators. Which FC Bayern would probably get into its stadium every time. Rummenigge's reverie was now also an issue in Munich City Hall.
Specifically, the Bavarian Party had made a request to Mayor Dieter Reiter of the SPD . The questions in it: Are there currently expansion plans, yes or no? And would an expansion of capacity in Fröttmaning be possible at all?
City of Munich: FC Bayern should not have built with the TSV 1860
The department for urban planning and building regulations now said: "An expansion of the spectator capacity is probably not feasible according to the current factual and legal situation."
As the responsible city planning officer Elisabeth Merk (non-party) further stated in her answer, the department was also not aware of any stipulations that the Bavarians should have built the arena bindingly with the sixties.
Munich: The rivalry between FC Bayern and TSV 1860 is alive
Because that was what Rummenigge had said when he visited the fan club. Accordingly, the city had driven Bavaria into a partnership with TSV 1860 . Either partnership with the four-figure club or there is no approval ”. The Munich city administration now contradicts this.
The Allianz Arena remains in the order of magnitude as it stands. And the rivalry between red and blue lives on anyway in the Bavarian capital.
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