Living in Frankfurt - Frankfurt am Main

dium), which was begun in June 2002, was completed
three years later. The new, multi-purpose Commerzbank
Arena now has a capacity of up to 55,000 spectators.
Home games of Eintracht Frankfurt, the local professional
soccer team, in Germany’s premiere soccer league,
the Bundesliga, are played here, but business and other
major events have also found a new home.
Getting there: by regional train (S-Bahn): line 7–9 to
the Stadium („Stadion”)
by streetcar: line 21 to the Stadium („Stadion”);
on game days: special trains of streetcar lines 20
and 21 from Central Station („Hauptbahnhof”)
SOCCER IN FRANKFURT
No matter what league – from district to premiere:
Soccer in Frankfurt covers a wide variety of options,
whether you would like to join a club or just watch a
match. The poster boys and girls of Frankfurt’s soccer
scene are the “1. FFC” (women), www.ffc-frankfurt.de,
and “Eintracht” (men), www.eintracht-frankfurt.de. And
Frankfurt is a city of world cups: In 2006, hundreds of
thousands celebrated the “miraculous” FIFA World Cup
in men’s soccer, and seven ladies from the 1. FFC were
part of the women’s national team the won the women’s
World Cup for the second time in a row in 2007 – and in
2011, Frankfurt will host the fi nal of the women’s soccer
World Cup.
Photos: Presse- und Informationsamt der Stadt Frankfurt am Main (Alexander Heimann), iStockphoto