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Name
VELTINS-Arena
Alternate: 17620

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Schalke 04 vs Kaiserslautern
Fri 29 Nov 2024 17:30

Established
2001 (23 years old)

Capacity
62,271

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Country
Germany

Location
Gelsenkirchen, Germany

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Upcoming

29 Nov	Schalke 04	-	Kaiserslaute		5:30pm
14 Dec	Schalke 04	-	Fortuna Düs		12:00pm
25 Jan	Schalke 04	-	FC Nürnberg		12:00pm
01 Feb	Schalke 04	-	Magdeburg		12:00am
15 Feb	Schalke 04	-	Karlsruhe		12:00am

Past Events

10 Nov	Schalke 04	2 - 0	Jahn Regensb
26 Oct	Schalke 04	3 - 4	Greuther Fü
05 Oct	Schalke 04	2 - 2	Hertha
22 Sep	Vienna Vikin	-	Rhein Fire
20 Sep	Schalke 04	3 - 5	Darmstadt
04 Sep	Schalke 04	2 - 1	NAC Breda
01 Sep	Schalke 04	1 - 3	FC Köln
03 Aug	Schalke 04	5 - 1	Eintracht Br
13 Jul	Schalke 04	2 - 2	Dynamo Kiev
10 Jul	Schalke 04	2 - 4	FC Midtjylla

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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Plans to construct a new stadium emerged in the late 1990s, as fans and managers sought to move out of the outdated Parkstadion, and create a thoroughly modern multifunctional arena.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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