New home for the Bayern women! Hoeneß confirms stadium purchase | OneFootball

In recent weeks, there have been many rumors and speculations about whether FC Bayern will take over the Uhlsport Park in Unterhaching. Honorary President Uli Hoeneß has now confirmed that FCB will take over the stadium.

What was previously only discussed behind closed doors, Hoeneß has now made public: the record champions will buy the facility from the municipality of Unterhaching – and thus create a new, permanent home for their women’s team.

At a business event in Munich, Hoeneß openly explained that the deal had basically been agreed: „We are now buying the stadium in Unterhaching because the town wants to get rid of it. Then we’ll see if we can generate more spectators for the women’s team.“ A clear indication of Bayern’s ambitious plans to further professionalize and expand women’s soccer structurally.

A quantum leap for the FCB women

Until now, the Bayern women have largely played their home matches on campus – a modern but very limited facility with 2,500 seats. For big matches such as the Champions League, they regularly have to switch to the Allianz Arena, but even there the spectator numbers are rarely as high as for Barça or Arsenal, for example.

With the stadium in Unterhaching, which can hold around 15,000 fans, the team will finally have an infrastructure that comes closer to international standards. Hoeneß sees this as an enormously important signal: „In Spain and England, the top games are always sold out. Here, you have to drum like crazy.“

SpVgg Unterhaching will also retain the location – the club will remain the tenant, but FC Bayern will own the stadium in future.

7.5 million euros – and a renovation mountain

According to BR, the purchase price is 7.5 million euros, but the deal involves much more than just taking over the site.

Haching’s president Manni Schwabl explained what investments are necessary: floodlights, lux figures, security requirements, police issues, pitch heating – many things need to be modernized.

„We didn’t know whether we could handle it,“ said Schwabl. Bayern, on the other hand, sees this expenditure as a sustainable investment in the future of its own women’s soccer.