1991 - 1999 Many concerts took place in the Waldstadion in the early 90’s. In 1992, Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Dire Straits and Michael Jackson came, for whom the DFB even changed the location of the Frankfurt-Bayern Munich match. In 1993, U2 and Guns N’ Roses gave concerts and Konstantin Wecker and Jethro Tull performed on the former hockey pitch. But after Bon Jovi, the Kelly Family and Westernhagen, only Tina Turner came in 2000. All in all, though, the diversity increased. In 1993, there was a children’s festival as well as a politically explosive Kurdish festival and, in 1995, the first company event: Commerzbank celebrated its 125th anniversary there. Several thousand employees came to it from all over Germany. The event with its spectacular closing laser show was presented by Günter Jauch. Since then, Frankfurt business has increasingly been using the Waldstadion. A lot of exciting things happened in terms of sport as well. After Frankfurt had applied for the 2004 Olympics in 1987, international events started to take place there, such as the 1991 final of the European athletics cup. Once the new centre court had been built, top international tennis events such as the Women’s Federation Cup were also held at the stadium as well as the women’s world tennis championships in 1992, 1993 and 1994. After that the tennis boom slowed down, though. In 1991, American Football moved into the stadium and with it, the World League, an offshoot of the American National Football League (NFL). Frankfurt Galaxy was born and attracted 150,000 spectators in its first season. This new sport had an instant impact and attracted a young audience with its party atmosphere. People rocked and had fun like never before at sporting events. Inadequate TV revenues caused the NFL to cancel its American Football venture in Europe. It wasn’t relaunched until 1995, with a new system and a new TV contract. Now the NFL Europe League was born with five European teams. Spectator numbers rose to over 36,000. Frankfurt Galaxy immediately won the World Bowl, repeating this success in 1999. Since then, American Football is an established sport with the Frankfurt fans. And Eintracht? In 1996, they were relegated from the top division, the 1st Bundesliga. They didn’t return until two years later – and the Waldstadion suffered a lot of damage at the last home game in the 2nd Bundesliga against Mainz. But they faced relegation again in 1999, until the legendary ‘Waldstadion miracle’ occurred, when Eintracht beat Kaiserslautern 5:1, and stayed in the top league.