Arena AufSchalke, currently known as Veltins-Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a retractable roof football stadium in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It opened on 13 August 2001, as the new home ground for FC Schalke 04.
It hosted the 2004 UEFA Champions League Final and five matches at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, including a quarter-final and it will host four matches in Euro 2024. It has a capacity of 62,271 for league matches and 54,740 for international matches. The stadium has a retractable roof and a retractable pitch. The naming rights to the stadium were sold on 1 July 2005 to German brewery Veltins.
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena_AufSchalke
Official website http://www.veltins-arena.de/
Email events@veltins-arena.de
Phone +49 209 3892-930
Address Arenaring 1, 45891 Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Coordinates 51°33'16.576" N 7°4'3.294" E
