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Gelsenkirchen Stadium, Germany
Veltins-Arena (German pronunciation: [ˈfɛltɪnsʔaˌʁeːnaː] ( listen); originally Arena AufSchalke [ʔaˌʁeːnaː ʔaʊfˈʃalkə] ( listen)) 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 62,271 (standing and seated) and an international capacity of 54,740 (seated only).[4] 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.