Kickers Emden have called this patch of grass home since 1950. The stadium changed names twice - it was simply the Kickers-Stadion for decades, then bore the name of club president Dr. Helmut Riedl from 1998 to 2005, before a local real estate and financial services firm bought the rights and stamped Ostfriesland-Stadion onto the gates. Capacity sits at 12,000, but for competitive matches security limits the crowd to 7,200. The record came on the final day of the 1993-94 season: 12,000 piled in for a third-division match against Hamburger SV's reserves. Attendance has bobbed up and down with the club's fortunes - around 1,800 a game in the 2004-05 fourth-league season, climbing to roughly 3,600 by March 2008 after promotion to the 3rd league.

The West Stand is the Main Stand: roughly 3,200 standing places and those 400 seats, all roofed over, holding the teams, managers, and officials. The East Stand carries the announcer's tower and the Prinz-Heinrich-Mütze regulars. The North Stand earned the unkindest nickname of all - Bushaltestelle, the bus stop, so called because it is so short it looks like a transit shelter. Home supporters who can't fit there spill around the corner onto the Main Stand. The South Stand is for away fans, with room for 2,000 voices - a capacity that has rarely been tested. An electronic scoreboard hangs behind it, marking the away end.

From 2007-08 the stadium could finally host evening matches again. The previous two Regionalliga seasons had banned night games here, for a reason that says everything about lower-league football: the floodlights were producing 300 lux of light, and broadcast television needs at least 400 lux to deliver a clean picture. So new lights went in, the crews came back after sundown, and the Prinz-Heinrich-Mütze men got their winter evenings back. It is the smallest of fixes, but it kept this corner of East Frisia in the broadcast-era game - a ground that is in many ways an artifact of an older football culture, finally meeting the cameras halfway.