The stadium was named for Lena Meyer-Landrut, after her win representing Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010.

As a result of this, Fortuna's stadium was rendered unusable for football for the final three home games of the 2010–11 2.

Moves to the neighbouring cities of Mönchengladbach, Köln, Bochum, and Leverkusen were ruled out, as well as an expansion Fortuna Düsseldorf's previous stadium, the Paul-Janes-Stadion, for security reasons.

[1][2] With a capacity of 20,168 and sponsored by Air Berlin and stylised as airberlin world,[3] the stadium hosted its first game on 26 March 2011, with Germany under-17 beating Ukraine U17 2–0.

The club hold the unique record of winning every game in their home stadium.