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Name
VELTINS-Arena
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Schalke 04 vs FC Nürnberg
Sun 14 Dec 2025 12:30

Established
2001 (24 years old)

Capacity
62,271

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Country
Germany

Location
Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Timezone
UTC +01:00 Central European Time (CET)

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Upcoming
14 Dec	Schalke 0	-	FC Nürnbe
25 Jan	Schalke 0	-	Kaiserslau
08 Feb	Schalke 0	-	Dynamo Dre
22 Feb	Schalke 0	-	Magdeburg
08 Mar	Schalke 0	-	Arminia Bi
15 Mar	Schalke 0	-	Hannover
05 Apr	Schalke 0	-	Karlsruhe
Results
28 Nov	Schalke 0	2 - 1	Paderborn
08 Nov	Schalke 0	1 - 0	Elversberg
24 Oct	Schalke 0	1 - 0	Darmstadt
26 Sep	Schalke 0	1 - 0	Greuther F
13 Sep	Schalke 0	0 - 1	Holstein K
23 Aug	Schalke 0	2 - 1	Bochum
01 Aug	Schalke 0	2 - 1	Hertha

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Plans to construct a new stadium emerged in the late 1990s, as fans and managers sought to move out of the outdated Parkstadion, and create a thoroughly modern multifunctional arena.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