Grasshoppers Zürich

Letzigrund (Capacity: 25.000)



Grasshoppers Zürich - FC Thun (1:0) (Swiss Super League, 25. August 2012)
1:0 I. Hajrovic (44.)

Attendance: 4.950
Cost: 30CHF
Programme: ZURIchnebel (1 CHF)

The stadium has a nice rusting look about it

The ticket booth

 

The teams warming up

Donate your clubs to support the choreo

 

Plenty of room to stroll around before and during the match

mmmmmmm............wurst

 

Todays teams with a small band of away fans at the back

The home Ultras

 

Ready for kickoff

Grasshoppers celebrate the only goal of the game

 

Hope security was well paid today

View from behind the goals

 

The home team thanking the fans

Looking across halfway post-match

 

View of the home supporters end

And the away end

 

Outside the ground

CLUB HISTORY:
Grasshopper Club Zürich commonly referred to as simply GC, GCZ, or Grasshoppers is a Swiss multisports club based in Zürich, Switzerland. The oldest and best known section of Grasshopper Club Zürich is its football team. With 27 titles, Grasshopper-Club Zürich holds the records for winning the most national championship titles and for the most successes in the Swiss Cup tournament (18 victories). The club is the oldest football team in Zürich.

The origin of Grasshopper's name is unknown, although the most common explanation refers to its early players' energetic post-goal celebrations.

After a number of appearances in European Cups and the UEFA Champions League, Grasshopper has become one of Switzerland's most recognizable football clubs. Today, in addition to its main football squad, the club has competitive professional and youth teams in rowing, ice hockey, handball, lawn tennis, court tennis, field hockey, curling, rugby, squash, and unihockey.

HONOURS:

Swiss Championship
Winners (27): 1898, 1900, 1901, 1905, 1921, 1927, 1928, 1931, 1937, 1939, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1952, 1956, 1971, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1990, 1991, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2003

Swiss Cup
Winners (18): 1926, 1927, 1932, 1934, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1946, 1952, 1956, 1983, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1994

Swiss League Cup
Winners (2): 1973, 1975

Swiss Super Cup
Winners (1): 1989

STADIUM HISTORY:
Letzigrund is a stadium in Zurich, Switzerland, and the home of the football club FC Zürich. It is also temporarily home to the football club Grasshopper-Club Zürich while their stadium (Stadion Zürich) is under construction. The annual athletics meet Weltklasse Zürich—part of the IAAF Diamond League—takes place at the Letzigrund, as well as frequent open air concerts.
It opened November 22, 1925 owned by the FC Zürich football club. During the Great Depression, ownership changed to the city of Zurich in 1937 which has operated it since. It underwent extensive remodelling in 1947, 1958, 1973, and 1984. Lighting was added in 1973. The first open air concert was in 1996.

The capacity is 25,000. The main pitch is 105 by 68 metres with athletics facilities. There are also three other playing fields: 2 lawns, 1 artificial turf and a small packed sand field. A bar and a restaurant are within the stadium.
For concerts, it has a high capacity, in 1997, during her Falling Into You Tour, Celine Dion played a sold out concert to 75,000 people & Tina Turner performed 2 sold-out performances at the stadium during her highly successful Twenty Four Seven Tour.
AC/DC were scheduled to perform during their Razors Edge World Tour on September 6, 1991, but the show was cancelled.

In January 2005, UEFA approved plans to rebuild the stadium for use as a EURO 2008 venue. It hosted 3 matches in the 2008 European Football Championship.
The new stadium was opened on August 30, 2007. The first sport event there was the annual Weltklasse Zürich on September 7 with 26500 spectators, the first football game was FC Zürich vs. Grasshopper Club Zürich on September 23. It hosted three games during the 2008 European championships, with a capacity of up to 30,000. The current capacity is 25,000, for football events, 30,000, for athletics and 50,000, for concerts.