Raiffeisen Arena

The new arena rose on the site of the Linzer Stadion of 1952, and its construction was repeatedly delayed by funding problems and a change of club management.

Construction and opening

LASK presented the plans on 22 July 2020. The design by architect Harald Fux of Raumkunst ZT envisaged 20,234 places across two tiers. The number carries a symbolic echo of 1908, the year Linzer Sport-Club was founded. The original groundbreaking date in spring 2021 slipped: after managing director Manfred Zauner was voted out, the whole project team had to be rebuilt, and financing difficulties followed. The state of Upper Austria contributed a maximum of €30 million, with the balance covered by a private investor model run by Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich, which is also the naming sponsor. Ground was finally broken on 9 October 2021, with the Porr group as contractor.

Major renovations

This is a new build rather than a renovation. The original budget of €65 million for the stadium alone — €85 million including offices, training pitches and a restaurant — eventually exceeded €100 million as material costs rose. In October 2023 it emerged that the overrun reached €35 million, which sponsors had to absorb. In February 2026 LASK and Raiffeisenlandesbank extended the naming rights agreement to 2040.

Notable moments

The arena opened with a soft launch on 17 February 2023, when the LASK women's team beat Sportunion Geretsberg 4–1 in front of 3,500 spectators, breaking the Austrian attendance record for women's club football. Captain Katharina Mayr scored the first goal. The men followed on 24 February 2023 against Austria Lustenau, winning 1–0 through a Marin Ljubičić penalty deep in stoppage time before 12,000 people.

Raiffeisen Arena was built as a dedicated football ground with stands close to the pitch — removing the athletics track was precisely why LASK wanted a new stadium.

Fan culture

The supporters' stand forms a single continuous tier with 4,500 standing places, converted to 3,000 seats for international fixtures. The seating is almost entirely black, with only the LASK name and the sponsor's logo picked out in white. Even before opening, by January 2023, the club had sold roughly 4,500 season tickets, excluding boxes and business club places. The business stand offers 2,386 seats, alongside 42 sky boxes of twelve places each and two event boxes seating fifty. A V.I.P. box sits at the players' tunnel, modelled on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Big matches

The first match ever played here, on 17 February 2023, was a LASK women's fixture whose 3,500 crowd surpassed the previous Austrian record for women's club football (around 2,800 for SKN St. Pölten against AS Roma). A week later the LASK men won a league match against Austria Lustenau in stoppage time. The Austria men's national team has since played six matches at the ground, and the women's team appeared in April 2024 against Germany.

The stadium lies in the Froschberg district of Linz, Austria's third largest city, and is designed as an all-day complex rather than simply a pitch.

How to get there

• Where it is: the Froschberg district of Linz, on the site of the former Linzer Stadion
• Landmark: the TipsArena Linz, seating up to 8,755, stands immediately next door
• By car or transit: the ground sits within the city and is served by Linz public transport

Tickets and tours

LASK sells tickets directly, and demand is strong — season tickets sold in the thousands before the ground even opened. League fixtures use all 19,080 places, while international matches reduce capacity to 17,117 as standing areas convert to seats.

Visitor tips

• With children: childcare operates on matchdays in the large "Kinderarena"
• Where to stand: the supporters' tier is a single continuous rank with 4,500 standing places
• What is inside: a boarding school, health centre, fan village, club shop and restaurant
• Worth knowing: the arena is designed to be climate-neutral and sells no plastic bottles