Featured Game – Freiburg 3-0 Augsburg
It was an emotional night in the Black Forest when Freiburg entertained Augsburg on matchday six in the Bundesliga, as it was to be the hosts’ final game at their home stadium of 67 years. That is a long time to be in one place, and there are bundles of history attached to the Dreisamstadion for Freiburg. However, a testament to the vast expanse of time they been there is the fact that the ground no longer met modern standards: the pitch is too small, and the goal at one end is nearly a metre higher than the one at the other. This issue has been at the forefront of the minds of the club hierarchy for some time now, but renovating the Dreisamstadion to bring it up to modern requirements would have been a lengthy process and almost just as expensive as building a new stadium entirely. So that is what they did. The team plan to move into their new home, the SC-Stadion, in the near future. It can hold an increased number of supporters – 34,700 up from 24,000 – and should give an exciting new era feel for all those inside. The end of the old one was not quite over yet when Augsburg came to town though, and the Freiburg players were keen to make sure that it was a send-off to remember.