Clubs VSG Altglienicke and
Berlin Thunder are currently the main tenants of the stadium as of 2024.
BFC Dynamo was the main tenant of the stadium from the
2014–15 season. The club had been the main tenant from the 1975–76 season to the 1991–92 season. BFC Dynamo and VSG Altglienicke played at the stadium until the end of 2020. VSG Altglienicke temporarily returned to the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark for the second half of the
2022–23 season. Berlin Thunder of the
European League of Football began using the stadium in 2021. The facility is also used by football clubs SV Empor Berlin and FC Bundestag.
Association football The Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark was the home ground of
army-sponsored FC Vorwärts Berlin and its predecessors from 1953. ASK Vorwärts Berlin, which then became FC Vorwärts Berlin, was one of the strongest football teams in East Germany in the 1960s. ASK Vorwärts Berlin hosted
Glasgow Rangers at the stadium in the
1961–62 European Cup. The club played as stadium guests of
sports club TSC Berlin (
de) during the first years, but took over the stadium with the founding of
football club FC Vorwärts Berlin in 1966. on 12 April 1965. FC Vorwärts Berlin was relocated to
Frankfurt an der Oder on 31 July 1971. BFC Dynamo played some home matches at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark during the 1971–72 season. The large stadium was equipped with floodlights, unlike the
Dynamo-Stadion im Sportforum, which permitted for matches in the evening. BFC Dynamo played its home matches in the
1971-72 European Cup Winners' Cup at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark. 30,000 spectators watched the match against
Åtvidabergs FF in the quarter-finals on 22 April 1972 and the stadium was sold out. BFC Dynamo also played the match against
FC Karl-Marx-Stadt on the 20th matchday and the match against
ASG Vorwärts Stralsund on the 24th matchday of the
1971-72 DDR-Oberliga at the stadium. However, more matches at the stadium were not possible after the summer of 1972, as the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark was then undergoing a thorough renovation for the upcoming
10th World Festival of Youth and Students. BFC Dynamo played its home matches at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark until the beginning of the
1992-93 season. The team only temporarily moved back to the Dynamo-Stadion im Sportforum during the
1986–87 season, as the large stadium in the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark was under renovation. on 15 September 1982.BFC Dynamo celebrated nine of its ten
DDR-Oberliga titles at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark and played most of its home matches in the European competitions in the 1970s and 1980s at the stadium. BFC Dynamo hosted teams such as
Cardiff City FC,
Red Star Belgrade,
Nottingham Forest,
Aston Villa,
Hamburger SV,
AS Roma,
FC Aberdeen,
Werder Bremen and
AS Monaco at the stadium. The main stand of the large stadium was frequently visited by the president of
SV Dynamo and head of the
Stasi Erich Mielke during the East German era. Erich Mielke was a football enthusiast who barely missed a home match of BFC Dynamo. and
Hallescher FC Chemie in the
1990-91 NOFV-Oberliga on 10 November 1990. BFC Dynamo, then named FC Berlin, played its first two seasons of the 1990s at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark. The team then moved permanently to the football stadium in the Sportforum Hohenschönhausen at the beginning of the 1992–93 season. The team played its match against
DSC Arminia Bielefeld in the first round of the
1999-2000 DFB-Pokal in front of 2,399 spectators at the stadium on 7 August 1999. BFC Dynamo would continue to play at the Stadion im Sportforum for many seasons, but the team would more often play occasional matches at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in the 2000s. The team played its match against
1. FC Union Berlin in the Round of 16 of the 2000–01 Berlin Cup in front of 4,427 spectators at the stadium on 24 March 2001. Riots broke out in
Prenzlauer Berg after the match. The Stadium im Sportforum was closed for matches in the
NOFV-Oberliga Nord at the end of the 2005–06 seasons for security reasons. The stadium had to be refurbished to increase security and to meet requirements of the
Northeastern German Football Association (NOFV). BFC Dynamo thus temporarily moved its home matches to the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark at the beginning of the 2006–07 season. BFC Dynamo achieved promotion to the
Regionalliga Nordost at the end of the
2013-14 NOFV-Oberliga Nord. The team eventually moved its home matches to the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark for the
2014–15 Regionalliga Nordost, after 22 seasons at the Stadion im Sportforum. The match between BFC Dynamo and
FC Schalke 04 in the first round of the
2017-18 DFB-Pokal at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark on 17 August 2017 was watched by 14,117 spectators. The attendance was the highest attendance for BFC Dynamo since the match between BFC Dynamo and AS Monaco in the
1989–90 European Cup Winners' Cup on 1 November 1989. The
East Germany national football team played ten international matches at the stadium from 1971 to 1990. The friendly match between East Germany and
Belgium on 13 Match 1974 was attended by 30,000 spectators. East Germany won the match 1–0 with a goal by
Joachim Streich. In addition, three finals of the
FDGB-Pokal were played at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark, in
1965,
1990 and
1991. The final of the
Berlin Cup was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark every season between 1995 and 2006, and between 2008 and 2020. The stadium has been used by various clubs in Berlin since
German reunification.
Hertha BSC II has occasionally used the stadium, when its own stadium could not be used due to a high number of spectators expected or for security reasons.
Hertha BSC played its opening matches in the
1992–93 2. Bundesliga season at the stadium. Hertha BSC also played its match against
FK Moscow in the semi-finals of the
2006 UEFA Intertoto Cup and has played several matches in the qualifying rounds of the
UEFA Cup and the
UEFA Europa League at the stadium, most recently against
Brøndby IF in the third qualifying round of the
2016-17 UEFA Europa League. Hertha BSC won the match 1–0 and the stadium was sold out with 18,454 spectators.
1. FC Union Berlin used the stadium for its home matches against
FC Haka and
PFC Litex Lovech in the
2001-02 UEFA Cup, as the
Stadion an der Alten Försterei did not meet UEFA safety requirements. The following teams have used the stadium as home ground since the 1990s: •
SV Yeşilyurt, in the second half of the
2004–05, as well as the
2005–06 NOFV-Oberliga Nord. •
Berliner AK 07 (then known as Berlin Ankaraspor Kulübü 07) in the
2006–07 NOFV-Oberliga Nord. •
Türkiyemspor Berlin in the
2008–09,
2009–10 and
2010–11 Regionalliga Nord and the
2011–12 NOFV-Oberliga Nord, as the Willy-Kressmann-Stadion did not meet the safety requirements of the
German Football Association (DFB). • 1. FC Union Berlin in the
2008-09 3. Liga, as the Stadion an der Alten Försterei was under redevelopment. •
1. FC Union Berlin II in the
2012–13 and
2013–14 Regionalliga Nordost. •
VSG Altglienicke in the Regionalliga Nordost from the
2017–18 season until the end of
2020, as the Stadion Altglienicke did not meet Regionalliga standards. The team temporarily returned to the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark for the second half of the
2022–23 Regionalliga Nordost. •
FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin, in the
2021-22 3. Liga as the Stadion Lichterfelde did not meet
3. Liga standards. The team also played the first half of the 2022–23 Regionalliga Nordost at the stadium. The team then returned to the Stadion Lichterfelde. The Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark was chosen as the venue for the
2015 UEFA Women's Champions League Final. The final was played between
1. FFC Frankfurt and
Paris Saint-Germain on 14 May 2015. 1. FFC Frankfurt defeated Paris-Saint German with 2–1. The stadium was sold out and the match was attended by 17,147 spectators, including
Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel and UEFA President
Michel Platini. Platini had once played professionally at the stadium himself, when his
AS Saint-Étienne was hosted by BFC Dynamo in the
1981-82 European Cup on 4 September 1981.
Athletics The Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark hosted a stage in the annual multiple stage bicycle race
Peace Race between 1963 and 1977. The stadium also hosted the annual Olympic Day of Athletics between 1963 and 1989. The Olympic Day of Athletics was an athletics competition in
East Berlin, modeled on the
International Stadionfest (ISTAF) that took place in
West Berlin. The Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark hosted the
1998 German Athletics Championships and the ISTAF took place at the stadium in 2002 and 2003, during the renovation of the Olympiastadion. The Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark was also the venue of the
2018 World Para Athletics European Championships. A total of 18 world records have been set in the stadium. Among others,
Uwe Hohn set a new world record when he threw the
javelin 104,80 meter before 21,000 spectators during the Olympic Day of Athletics on 20 July 1984. This was the first time a javelin throw had exceeded the 100 meter mark. The display at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sport showed a distance of only 4,80 meter, instead 104,80 meter, as it did not have space for five numbers at the time.
Other sports The Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark is regularly used for
American football and served as the home venue for the American football team
Berlin Adler from 2004 to 2015. The stadium was used by the
Berlin Thunder of the
NFL Europe between 1999 and 2002. The stadium also was the annual venue of the
German Bowl between 2012 (
German Bowl XXXIV) and 2018 (
German Bowl XL) and was the site of the 2014
Eurobowl Final, where the Berlin Adler defeated the
New Yorker Lions with 20–17. Due to refurbishment and redevelopment of the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sport, the final of the German Bowl was moved to the
Waldstadion in
Frankfurt am Main in 2019.
German Bowl XLII was once again held at Frankfurt. The
2001 Speedway Grand Prix of Germany was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Stadion, which was the first Speedway Grand Prix-event at a temporary track. The Grand Prix was won by the Polish rider
Tomasz Gollob. German rider
Robert Barth finished on 14th place. The Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sporpark has recently also served as a venue for the annual
crossfit competition Berlin Throwdown.
Concerts The Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark also serves as a concert venue. Michael Jackson performed in front of 35,000 spectators in the stadium during his
Dangerous World Tour on 4 September 1992. == Redevelopment ==