Veltins-Arena, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member g300td
N 51° 33.206 E 007° 04.125
32U E 366109 N 5713139
This is the football-stadium of FC Schalke o4 (die Perle im Revier).
Waymark Code: WMMQ3J
Location: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Date Posted: 10/23/2014
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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."
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