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VELTINS-Arena
Alternate: 17620

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Established
2001 (23 years old)

Capacity
62,271

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Germany

Location
Gelsenkirchen, Germany

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29 Nov Schalke 04 home team badge - Away Team Badge Kaiserslaute
14 Dec Schalke 04 home team badge - Away Team Badge Fortuna Düs
25 Jan Schalke 04 home team badge - Away Team Badge FC Nürnberg
01 Feb Schalke 04 home team badge - Away Team Badge Magdeburg
15 Feb Schalke 04 home team badge - Away Team Badge Karlsruhe
01 Mar Schalke 04 home team badge - Away Team Badge Preußen Mü
15 Mar Schalke 04 home team badge - Away Team Badge Hannover

Past Events
10 Nov Schalke 04 home team badge 2 - 0home team badge Jahn Regensb
26 Oct Schalke 04 home team badge 3 - 4home team badge Greuther Fü
05 Oct Schalke 04 home team badge 2 - 2home team badge Hertha
22 Sep Vienna Vikin home team badge - home team badge Rhein Fire
20 Sep Schalke 04 home team badge 3 - 5home team badge Darmstadt
04 Sep Schalke 04 home team badge 2 - 1home team badge NAC Breda
01 Sep Schalke 04 home team badge 1 - 3home team badge FC Köln


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Veltins-Arena (originally Arena AufSchalke ) is a football stadium in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It opened in 2001, as the new home ground for German Bundesliga club Schalke 04.

It hosted the 2004 UEFA Champions League final and 5 matches in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, including a quarter-final. It has a league capacity of 61,482 (standing and seated) and an international capacity of 53,951 (seated only). The stadium has a retractable roof and a retractable pitch. The naming rights to the stadium were sold on 1 July 2005 to the German brewery Veltins.

Plans to construct a new stadium emerged in the late 1990s, as fans and managers sought to move out of the outdated Parkstadion, and create a thoroughly modern multifunctional arena. Following Schalke 04's historic 1997 victory in the UEFA Cup, and the club's upcoming 100th anniversary in 2004, the contract to construct a €186 million stadium was given in 1998 to the German construction firm HBM.
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