VELTINS-Arena
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Established
2001 (24 years old)
Capacity
62,271
Build Cost
Architect
Country
Germany
Location
Gelsenkirchen, Germany
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Coordinates
Upcoming
| 14 Mar | Schalke 04  | - |  Hannover |
| 05 Apr | Schalke 04 | - |  SSV Ulm |
| 19 Apr | Schalke 04 | - |  Hamburg |
| 03 May | Schalke 04 | - |  Paderborn |
| 18 May | Schalke 04 | - |  Elversberg |
Past Events
| 22 Jan | Shakhtar Don  | 2 - 0 |  Brest |
| 06 Jan | Schalke 04 | 3 - 1 |  FC Aarau |
| 14 Dec | Schalke 04 | 1 - 1 |  Fortuna Düs |
| 10 Dec | Shakhtar Don | 1 - 5 |  Bayern Munic |
| 29 Nov | Schalke 04 | 0 - 3 |  Kaiserslaute |
| 10 Nov | Schalke 04 | 2 - 0 |  Jahn Regensb |
| 06 Nov | Shakhtar Don | 2 - 1 |  Young Boys |
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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Plans to construct a new stadium emerged in the late 1990s, as fans and managers sought to move out of the outdated Parkstadion, and create a thoroughly modern multifunctional arena.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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