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Established
2014 (12 years old)

Capacity
45,568

Build Cost
₽16.3 billion (€220 million)

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Country
Russia

Location
Lenina Ave 76, Volgograd

Timezone
UTC +03:00 Moscow Standard Time (MSK)

Coordinates
48°44′04″N 44°32′55″E

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		Upcoming
09 Aug	Rotor VolRotor Volgograd	3:30pm	ChelyabinChelyabinsk
14 Aug	Rotor VolRotor Volgograd	4:30pm	Ural YekaUral Yekaterinburg
22 Aug	Rotor VolRotor Volgograd	3:00pm	NeftekhimNeftekhimik Nizhnekamsk
12 Sep	Rotor VolRotor Volgograd	3:00pm	Yenisey KYenisey Krasnoyarsk
10 Oct	Rotor VolRotor Volgograd	3:00pm	Volga UlyVolga Ulyanovsk
17 Oct	Rotor VolRotor Volgograd	3:00pm	SochiSochi
31 Oct	Rotor VolRotor Volgograd	4:00pm	UfaUfa
		Results
20 Jul	Rotor VolRotor Volgograd	1 - 0	SKA-KhabaSKA-Khabarovsk
06 Jul	Rotor VolRotor Volgograd	1 - 3	Akron TolAkron Tolyatti
04 Jul	Rotor VolRotor Volgograd	-	Torpedo MTorpedo Moscow
28 Jun	Rotor VolRotor Volgograd	1 - 0	UfaUfa
21 Jun	Rotor VolRotor Volgograd	-	Nizhny NoNizhny Novgorod
05 Jun	RussiaRussia	3 - 0	Burkina FBurkina Faso
20 May	Rotor VolRotor Volgograd	0 - 2	Akron TolAkron Tolyatti

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The Volgograd Arena (Russian: «Волгоград Арена») is a football stadium in Volgograd, Russia. The stadium was one of the venues for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. It also hosts FC Rotor Volgograd. It has a capacity of 45,568 spectators.

The stadium was built on site of the demolished Central Stadium, at the foot of the Mamayev Kurgan memorial complex, near the Volga River. The previous stadium was built in 1958, on the site of a former oil depot. This area was undeveloped, occupied by randomly distributed low-value buildings, warehouses, barracks and ravines. During construction of the stadium, 300 unexploded bombs were discovered and removed from the site.

The Arena was designed by PI Arena and GMP Architekten, the winner of an open tender. Stroytransgaz was the project's general construction contractor. Initially, local authorities estimated the total project cost, including the construction works, at 10 billion rubles. In October 2014, the preliminary construction cost of the stadium for the 2018 FIFA World Cup was adjusted to 17 billion rubles. The stadium's capacity is at 45,000 seats, including 2,280 seats in the media box, 640 seats in the VIP box, and 460 seats for people with limited mobility. A special architectural feature of the stadium is its large roof resting on a cable frame, arranged in a “bicycle wheel” pattern created by steel-wire cables. The Volgograd Arena is shaped like an overturned truncated cone 49.5 m tall and about 303 m in diameter. The façade shape is dictated by the need to fit the building compactly into the available piece of land. The stadium has 42 elevators, 24 of them adapted for people with disabilities. The Volgograd Arena is equipped with a sound system.

The stadium was inaugurated on April 3, 2018, shortly before the first FIFA World Cup match on April 21, 2018. Football veterans, among them Alexander Nikitin and Valery Yesipov, were honored in an honoring ceremony before the first match.

By the opening of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the stadium was equipped with alarm and public alert systems, metal detectors, indicators of hazardous liquids and explosives, and the facility was serviced by 30 posts of 24-hour security posts.

After the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, the Arena reduced its seating capacity to 43,000 and was handed over to the local Rotor Volgograd.


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