Steyer Stadium gets a scoreboard after a delay

The Heinz Steyer Stadium in Dresden, which was reopened last summer, is finally to get a scoreboard. This was simply forgotten during the renovation of the sports facility. Now it is being made up for. The improvements should be completed for the Golden Oval athletics meeting on June 1. This was confirmed by Dresden's sports mayor Jan Donhauser to the "Sächsische Zeitung". The procurement process for the purchase of the modern LED board is currently running until the end of March. Donhauser put the costs at around 250,000 euros.

The new scoreboard will then be installed on the north stand on Rudolf-Harbig-Allee. "In coordination with the specialist planners, the location was statically tested and approved," said Donhauser, adding: "The aim is for the scoreboard to go into operation at the beginning of June 2025."

Then at least one major mistake would have been rectified. Dynamo ex-footballer Ralf Minge, head of the Ostra sports park, identified 1,800 construction defects in the stadium last year alone. These ranged from minor issues such as scratches in doors to inadequate parking spaces and toilets, as well as a missing scoreboard. In total, the two-year renovation and expansion of the Steyer Stadium ended up costing around 58 million euros.