page_title: Sportforum Hohenschönhausen
section_title: Football stadium
hierarchical_section_title: Sportforum Hohenschönhausen / Football stadium
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Dynamo-Stadion im Sportforum Hohenschönhausen
context_page_description: Sportforum Hohenschönhausen is a multi-purpose sports complex in the locality of Alt-Hohenschönhausen of the borough of Lichtenberg in Berlin. The Sportforum was named Dynamo-Sportforum during the East German era.
  Sportforum Hohenschönhausen covers an area between 45 and 50 hectares, and comprises 35 sports facilities, including three ice rinks, two athletics halls, a football stadium, as well as eight other halls and open spaces for various sports. Development of the Dynamo-Sportforum began in 1954. The original building ensemble, including the Dynamo-Sporthalle, which was built in individual sections from 1955, based on designs by an architectural collective led by Walter Schmidt, is a protected building of cultural heritage. Development of the Sportforum continued into the 1980s. The complex is the second largest sports complex in Berlin after the Olympiapark.
  The Dynamo-Sportforum was the training center where the top athletes and future Olympic medalists trained during the East German era. The Olympic Training Center Berlin is now the main user of the facilities. Around 20 sports clubs are also based in the Sportforum and more than 3,000 athletes use the facilities every day.
context_section_description: The current stadium was completed in 1970 and initially held a capacity of 20,000 spectators. It replaced the Sportplatz Steffenstraße, which had previously occupied the site and which had already been used by BFC Dynamo and its predecessor, the football department of SC Dynamo Berlin. The first match of SC Dynamo Berlin in 1954 took place at the site. The team played its first seasons at the Walter-Ulbricht-Stadion in Mitte, but moved to the Sportplatz Steffenstraße in the Dynamo-Sportforum in 1960. 
  After the opening of the new stadium, BFC Dynamo played only one league season at the site, before the club moved its home matches to the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Prenzlauer Berg, which had become vacant when FC Vortwärts Berlin was relocated to Frankfurt an der Oder in 1971. From then, BFC Dynamo used the Dynamo-Sportforum primarily as a training facility.
  As a result, the Dynamo-Stadion im Sportforum was rarely used for larger matches. However, BFC Dynamo played its 1972-73 UEFA Cup matches against SCO Angers, Levski Sofia and Liverpool F.C. at the stadium. The attendance of 20,000 spectators during the match against Liverpool F.C. on 29 November 1972 is still the record attendance for the stadium as of 2020. First division football returned to the stadium in 1986, as the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark was under renovation during the 1986–87 season. BFC Dynamo also played its 1986-87 European Cup match against Swedish champion Örgryte IS at the stadium.  
  BFC Dynamo, under the interim name FC Berlin since February 1990, returned to the Stadion im Sportforum in 1992. The club used the stadium for its Oberliga Nordost home matches. The stadium now had a capacity of 11,000 standing places and 2,500 seated places, of which 400 were roofed. BFC Dynamo made plans to buy the stadium in 1998. The plans eventually failed due to lack of financial resources. The club also made plans to completely rebuild the stadium in 2006. These plans did not materialize either.
  The Stadion im Sportforum was refurbished during the 2005-06 season, to include new fences and player tunnels required to meet security standards. BFC Dynamo moved permanently to the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in the 2014–15 season, following its advance to the Regionalliga Nordost and the subsequent higher media and spectator interest. However, the club returned to play matches at the Stadion im Sportforum in 2019 due to the deteriorating state of the floodlights at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark, which resulted in a temporary closure of the stadium, and are set to return to the Stadion im Sportforum during the 2020–21 season, as the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark is planned to be demolished in 2020 and then completely redeveloped.  
  The German Football Association (DFB) has classified the Stadion im Sportforum with a possible third division standard, if only a few small requirements are met, such as new press seats and a better separated press block. The Senate of Berlin is planning a renovation of the stadium for a cost of € 3 million as of 2020.
caption: Stadion im Sportforum in 2006.
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