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Merkur Spiel-Arena (stylized in all caps), previously known as the Esprit Arena (until 2 August 2018), the LTU Arena (until June 2009), and also called the Düsseldorf Arena (during the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest and the UEFA Euro 2024), is a retractable roof football stadium in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Germany had a wide choice of stadiums that satisfied UEFA's minimum capacity requirement of 30,000 seats for European Championship matches. [17] The Olympiastadion in Berlin was the largest stadium at UEFA Euro 2024. The stadium hosted the final of the tournament, as well as three group stage matches, a round of 16 matches, and a quarterfinal.
Arena AufSchalke (German pronunciation: [aˈʁeːnaː ʔaʊfˈʃalkə]), currently known as Veltins-Arena (pronounced [ˈfɛltɪnsʔaˌʁeːnaː]) for sponsorship reasons, is a retractable roof and pitch, football stadium in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
On 9 October 2022, the draw for the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifiers took place here. A planned May 2023 concert by Roger Waters was attempted to be canceled, after the Frankfurt city council called the former Pink Floyd singer/bassist “one of the world’s most well-known antisemites.”. [ 3 ]
The seventeen European Championship tournaments have been won by ten national teams: Spain have won four titles, Germany have won three titles, Italy and France have won two titles, and the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, Denmark, Greece and Portugal have won one title each. To date, Spain is the only team to have won consecutive ...
In 2011, the venue hosted the World Culture Festival organized by the Art of Living where 70,000 people meditated for peace. [6] In 2018, the venue hosted the 2018 European Athletics Championships. In 2024, the venue hosted the UEFA Euro 2024 final.
Stefan Geismeier gingerly dusted the head of the ancient Mesopotamian figure in Berlin's famous Pergamon Museum, then checked to make sure the statue was firmly anchored on its pedestal before ...
2024 Manchester United Kingdom: SKA Arena: 21,542 [2] 2023 Saint Petersburg Russia: Manchester Arena: 21,000 [3] 1995 Manchester United Kingdom: MVM Dome: 20,028 [4] 2021 Budapest Hungary: MEO Arena: 20,000 [5] 1998 Lisbon Portugal: The O 2 Arena: 20,000 [6] 2007 London United Kingdom: Lanxess Arena: 19,500 [7] 1998 Cologne Germany: Sportpaleis ...