+++ Innovative full-LED glass floor permanently installed in BMW Park +++ Full-video floor offers an extraordinary spectator experience +++ Kick-off for the season opening against Chemnitz +++ Premiere in 2023 caused a stir +++

Munich. A world first at the BMW Park: FC Bayern Munich Basketball will now play its Bundesliga home games in Munich’s Westpark on a high-tech full video floor. This makes the BMW Park the first professional sports facility in the world to have a permanently installed full LED video glass floor. BMW had already brought the innovative floor into the stadium for the premiere game in the BMW Park last September, thus creating a first: for the first time, a professional league game was played on a high-tech video sports floor made of glass.

“Since the beginning of our mobility partnership with FC Bayern Munich Basketball, it has been our aim to offer fans in our shared home of Munich a first-class spectator experience in the BMW Park,” says Bernd Döpke, Head of BMW Munich: “We are proud that our initiative last year gave the impetus to permanently install the high-tech video floor this season. This makes the BMW Park the first sports arena in the world to have such a permanently installed floor. Spectators in the BMW Park experience a new level of technological progress and innovation, which is also what our BMW vehicles stand for.”

The innovative full video floor was developed in Bavaria, shows animations and graphics that are visualized across the entire interior floor, and meets the highest safety standards for athletes. In addition, the technology can display real-time data such as player and ball tracking systems. In addition to FC Bayern Munich Basketball, the volleyball Bundesliga team from Herrsching also plays its home games on the glass floor in the BMW Park, and the installation offers the city of Munich an even more spectacular location for entertainment and music events and other events.

After Bayern’s 98:87 BBL opening victory against Mitteldeutscher BC in September 2023, fans, audiences and players reacted to the innovation with great enthusiasm. “I really liked the video floor at the opening game last year, it was a really cool experience. I said back then that I could get used to it,” said basketball world champion Andreas Obst: “Now we are all happy that we can play our home games in BMW Park permanently on this full-LED video floor and continue training there – and we are the first professional team in the world to do so.”

FC Bayern Munich Basketball will also play its Bundesliga home games at BMW Park in the 2024/2025 season. Last season, the new “living room” developed into a real fortress for the team around Obst: the Reds won 16 of their 17 games of the season at BMW Park – laying the foundation for the sixth German championship in the club’s history.

The mission to defend the title begins for the team of new coach Gordon Herbert on September 20th with the BBL opening game against the Niners from Chemnitz in Munich’s Westpark. Then the high-tech full video floor in the BMW Park will be used for the first time again.