List of the largest football stadiums in Germany

Olympiastadion Berlin - largest stadium for international games

The list of the largest football stadiums in Germany includes all stadiums in Germany with more than 15,000 spectator seats in which football is or has been played. These can consist of sitting and standing areas . For the German Football Association (DFB) this is, among other criteria, the lower limit for eligibility to play in the Bundesliga . The year of the opening, the presence of a grandstand canopy, the team that mainly uses the stadium, whether there is a running track and the highest number of visitors with the year are named. Another list shows all stadiums with a seating capacity of 25,000 or more. This is roughly the lower limit for the use of stadiums for international matches. The year of the opening, the year of the last renovation or conversion / new construction, the previous stadium name, the number of boxes and business seats, whether a running track is available and the costs of the last construction work are stated.

Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund - highest Bundesliga capacity

Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen - stadium with movable lawn

Stadiums from 15,000 seats

Explanation

• Rank: States the ranking position that the stadium occupies in the list after seating and standing.
• Seats: states the number of seats in the stadium. These can consist exclusively of seats - as in Berlin - or of sitting and standing areas, as in most other stadiums. This corresponds to the capacity that is available for Bundesliga games.
• Name: gives the name of the stadium.
• City: Name the city in which the stadium is located.
• Country: The state in which the stadium is located. The state flag is shown and the abbreviation of the state is called.
• Opening: states the year in which the stadium was opened.
• Roof: Indicates the roofing of the places in percent .
• Career: Indicates whether the stadium, a track for athletics competitions has (yes) or not (No) .
• Use: Names the club that mainly uses the stadium.
• Record: Calls the highest number of spectators in the history of the stadium, often achieved with plenty of standing room
• Year: The year in which the record was set.

Stages

rank	Places	Surname	city	country	Eröff- voltage	Top, roof (%)	running track	use	record	year
01	81,365	Signal Iduna Park	Dortmund	NW	1974	100	No	Borussia Dortmund	083,000	2005
02	75,021	Allianz Arena	Munich	BY	2005	100	No	FC Bayern Munich	075,024	2017
03	74,475	Olympiastadion Berlin	Berlin	BE	1936	100	Yes	Hertha BSC , DFB Cup final , ISTAF , various events	101,000	1937
04th	69,250	Olympic Stadium Munich	Munich	BY	1972	055	Yes	Türkgücü Munich , athletics and concerts	090,000 0"approximately"	1973
05	62,271	Veltins Arena	Gelsenkirchen	NW	2001	100	No	FC Schalke 04 , concerts, various events	077,803	2010
06th	60,449	Mercedes-Benz Arena	Stuttgart	BW	1933	100	No	VfB Stuttgart , concerts	103,000	1950
07th	57,000	Volksparkstadion	Hamburg	HH	1953	100	No	Hamburger SV , concerts	080,000	1953
08th	54,600	Mercury game arena	Dusseldorf	NW	2005	100	No	Fortuna Düsseldorf , concerts, various events	054,500	2011
09	54.022	Borussia Park	Mönchengladbach	NW	2004	100	No	Borussia Monchengladbach	054,067	2006
10	51,500	Deutsche Bank Park	Frankfurt am Main	HE	1925	100	No	Eintracht Frankfurt , concerts, various events	081,000	1959
11	50,000	Max Morlock Stadium	Nuremberg	BY	1928	100	Yes	1. FC Nürnberg , athletics , concerts, various events	075,000	1971
11	50,000	Rheinenergiestadion	Cologne	NW	2004	100	No	1. FC Köln , concerts, various events	076,000	1953
13	49,850	Fritz Walter Stadium	Kaiserslautern	RP	1920	100	No	1. FC Kaiserslautern	050,754	2006
14th	49,200	HDI arena	Hanover	NI	1954	100	No	Hannover 96 , concerts	086,656	1954
15th	42,959	Red Bull Arena	Leipzig	SN	1956 2004	100	No	RB Leipzig , concerts	110,000	1957
16	42,100	Weser Stadium	Bremen	HB	1909	100	No	Werder Bremen	043,000	2003
17th	37,612	Gladbeck Stadium Vestische Kampfbahn	Gladbeck	NW	1928	003	Yes	SV Zweckel , athletics	045,000	1950
18th	33,305	Opel Arena	Mainz	RP	2011	100	No	1. FSV Mainz 05	034,034	2011
19th	32,960	Tivoli	Aachen	NW	2009	100	No	Alemannia Aachen	032,960	2009
20th	32,123	Rudolf Harbig Stadium	Dresden	SN	2009	100	No	Dynamo Dresden , concerts	044,000	1979
21st	32,000	Stadium at Strünkede Castle	Herne	NW	1910	06.25	Yes	Westfalia Herne	035,000	1960
22nd	31,500	Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena	Duisburg	NW	2005	100	No	MSV Duisburg	031,500	2005
23	30,660	WWK arena	augsburg	BY	2009	100	No	FC Augsburg	030,660	2010
24	30.210	BayArena	Leverkusen	NW	1958	100	No	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	030.210	2009
25th	30,150	PreZero arena	Sinsheim	BW	2009	100	No	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	030.164	2009
26th	30,098	MDCC arena	Magdeburg	ST	2006	100	No	1. FC Magdeburg	027,250	2007
27	30,000	Volkswagen Arena	Wolfsburg	NI	2002	100	No	VfL Wolfsburg	030,000	2002
27	30,000	Billtal Stadium	Hamburg	HH	1950	-	Yes	TSG Bergedorf , BFSV Atlantik 97	025,000	1958
29	29,546	Millerntor Stadium	Hamburg	HH	1963	095	No	FC St. Pauli	029,546	2013
30th	29,000	Ostseestadion	Rostock	MV	1954	100	No	Hansa Rostock	033,000	1988
31	28,000	Schwelgernstadion	Duisburg	NW	1925	-	Yes	Duisburg Vikings
31	28,000	Rose Stadium	augsburg	BY	1951	021st	Yes	FC Augsburg (women's football, FCA U23), BC Augsburg	064,856	1952
33	27,599	Ruhrstadion	Bochum	NW	1911	100	No	VfL Bochum	042,000	1979
34	26,515	SchücoArena	Bielefeld	NW	1926	100	No	Arminia Bielefeld	034,500	1985
35	25,000	Lake Constance Stadium	Constancy	BW	1935	005	Yes	Rock by the lake	040,000	1935
35	25,000	Jahnstadion	Marl	NW	1927	-	Yes	Marl Sly Dogs, baseball	018,000	1960
35	25,000	Skatbank arena	Altenburg	TH	1957	-	Yes	SV Motor Altenburg	025,000	1963
38	24,302	Carl Benz Stadium	Mannheim	BW	1994	100	No	SV Waldhof Mannheim	027,000	1994
39	24,000	Black Forest Stadium	Freiburg	BW	1953	098	No	Sc freiburg	025,000	1999
40	23,325	Eintracht Stadium	Braunschweig	NI	1923	100	Yes	Eintracht Braunschweig , New Yorker Lions	038,000	1967
41	23,140	Fürstenberg Stadium	Gelsenkirchen	NW	1920	-	Yes	BV Horst-Süd, Gelsenkirchen Devils	025,000	1957
42	23,067	Stadium at the zoo	Wuppertal	NW	1924	018th	No	Wuppertal SV	050,000	1948
43	23,000	Rhein Prussia Stadium	Moers	NW	1929	-	No	MSV Moers	025,000	1929
44	22,528	Friendship Stadium	cottbus	BB	1930	084	No	Energy Cottbus	022,746	2008
45	22,012	Stadium An der Alten Försterei	Berlin	BE	1920	100	No	1. FC Union Berlin	022,500	1984
46	21,600	Ellenfeldstadion	Neunkirchen	SL	1912	010	No	Borussia Neunkirchen , Saarland Hurricanes	031,000	1971
47	21,500	Hans Walter Wild Stadium	Bayreuth	BY	1967	016	Yes	SpVgg Bayreuth	022,500	1979
48	20,650	Essen stadium	eat	NW	2012	100	No	Rot-Weiss Essen , SGS Essen	020,650	2014
49	20,500	Stadium of Peace	Leipzig	SN	1923	-	Yes	SG Motor Gohlis-Nord (MoGoNo)	030,000	1983
49	20,500	Sparda Bank Hessen Stadium	Offenbach	HE	2012	100	No	Kickers Offenbach	020,500	2015
51	20,000	Jahnstadion	Mönchengladbach	NW	1922	011	No	Rheydter Spielverein	040,000	1931
51	20,000	Paul Greifzu Stadium	Dessau-Rosslau	ST	1952	010	Yes	SV Dessau 05	030,000	1952
53	19,708	Jahn Sports Park	Berlin	BE	1951	048	Yes	BFC Dynamo	030,000	1974
54	19,500	Danube Stadium	Ulm	BW	1925	020th	Yes	SSV Ulm 1846	040,000	1925
55	18,737	Auestadion	kassel	HE	1953	053	Yes	KSV Hessen Kassel	037,000	1964
56	18,599	Steigerwald Stadium	Erfurt	TH	1931	100	Yes	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt	051,300	1951
57	18,500	Leimbach Stadium	Wins	NW	1957	019th	Yes	Sports fans victories	024,782	1982
57	18,500	Sports forum Chemnitz	Chemnitz	SN	1926	-	Yes	Athletics ,	060,000	1938
59	18,400	Ludwig Jahn Stadium	Herford	NW	1955	-	Yes	Herford SV , SC Herford	030,000	1964
60	18,000	Ronhof sports park	Fuerth	BY	1910	100	No	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	032,000	1952
60	18,000	Sports park Johannisau	Fulda	HE	1963	07th	Yes	Borussia Fulda	026,000	1963
60	18,000	Ludwig Jahn Stadium	Ludwigsburg	BW	1938	-	Yes	SpVgg 07 Ludwigsburg	017,000	1971
63	17,600	VfL stadium on Elsterweg	Wolfsburg	NI	1950	025th	Yes	VfL Wolfsburg II , VfL Wolfsburg women	021,600	1997
64	17,284	Frankenstadion	Heilbronn	BW	1922	-	Yes	FC Union Heilbronn	018,500	1971
65	17,165	Niederrhein Stadium	Oberhausen	NW	1926	024	Partially	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	044,631	1950
66	17,000	Weismain Forest Stadium	Weismain	BY	1945	-	No	SC Weismain	017,000	1997
66	17,000	Jahnstadion	Goettingen	NI	1913	029	Yes	I. SC Göttingen 05	023,650	1982
68	16,500	Ischeland Stadium	Hagen	NW	1960	-	Yes	SSV Hagen	032,000	1965
69	16,488	Waldstadion Homburg	Homburg	SL	1937	008th	Yes	FC 08 Homburg	030,000	1952
70	16,485	Erzgebirgsstadion	Aue	SN	1950	100	No	FC Erzgebirge Aue	035,000	1950
71	16,233	Lohrheidestadion	Bochum	NW	1966	038	Yes	SG Wattenscheid 09	023,400	1974
72	16,100	Bremen bridge	Osnabrück	NI	1933	090	No	VfL Osnabrück	038,000	1952
73	16,000	Rudolf Kalweit Stadium	Hanover	NI	1918	-	No	SV Arminia Hanover	020,000	1960
73	16,000	Herbert Dröse Stadium	Hanau	HE	1951	006th	Yes	Hanau Hornets , Hanauer SC 1960	012,000	1978
75	15,900	Friendship Stadium	Gera	TH	1954	-	Yes	BSG Wismut Gera	020,000	1966
76	15,500	Stadium at the Quenz	Brandenburg on the Havel	BB	1955	020th	Yes	FC Stahl Brandenburg , VLF Brandenburg	022,000	1986
77	15,414	Hardtwald Stadium	Sandhausen	BW	1951	076	No	SV Sandhausen	013,000	1975
78	15,330	Wildlife Park Stadium	Karlsruhe	BW	1955	045	Partially	Karlsruher SC	055,000	1956
79	15,292	Wage Mill	Lübeck	SH	1924	028	No	VfB Lübeck	020,000	1988
80	15,228	Stadium at the cross sign	Reutlingen	BW	1953	034	No	SSV Reutlingen 05	018,000	1965
81	15,220	Stadium on Bassenheimer Weg	Then after	RP	1955		Yes	SG 99 Andernach
82	15.210	Jahn Stadium Regensburg	regensburg	BY	2015	100	No	SSV Jahn Regensburg	015,224	2015
83	15,200	Marschweg Stadium	Oldenburg	NI	1951	030th	Yes	VfB Oldenburg	032,000	1973
83	15,200	Seppl Herberger Stadium	Mannheim	BW	1924	00?	No	SV Waldhof Mannheim II	015,200	1989
83	15,200	Audi sports park	Ingolstadt	BY	2010	100	No	FC Ingolstadt 04	015,729	2010
86	15,060	Willy Sachs Stadium	Schweinfurt	BY	1936	006th	Yes	1. FC Schweinfurt 05	022,500	1954
87	15,057	Natural gas sports park	Halle (Saale)	ST	2011	100	No	Hallescher FC	015,057	2011
88	15.053	Unterhaching sports park	Unterhaching	BY	1992	041	No	SpVgg Unterhaching	015.053	2000
89	15,034	Holstein Stadium	Kiel	SH	1911	090	No	Holstein Kiel	030,000	1951
90	15,000	Stadium on Gellertstrasse	Chemnitz	SN	2016	100	No	Chemnitzer FC	030,000	1955
90	15,000	Voith Arena	Heidenheim	BW	2010	100	No	1. FC Heidenheim	015,000	2015
90	15,000	Benteler Arena	Paderborn	NW	2008	100	No	SC Paderborn 07	015,000	2008
90	15,000	Münchfeld Stadium	Rastatt	BW	1962	-	No	FC Rastatt 04	017,000	1973
90	15,000	Bayer sports stadium	Krefeld	NW	1962	-	Yes	SC Bayer 05 Uerdingen	000-	-
90	15,000	Georg Gassmann Stadium	Marburg	HE	1967	015th	Yes	VfB Marburg , Marburg Mercenaries	015,000	1967
90	15,000	Grünwald Stadium	Munich	BY	1911	030th	No	TSV 1860 Munich , Bayern Munich II , Bayern Munich women	058,200	1948
90	15,000	Stadium on Bayreuther Strasse	Ludwigshafen	RP	1927	-	No	TuRa Ludwigshafen

Additional information on the stadiums used internationally

Allianz Arena in Munich - stadium with three tiers

Explanation

• Seat : states the ranking position that the stadium occupies in the list according to the number of seats.
• Seats : states the number of seats in the stadium. These can consist exclusively of seats or standing room that has been converted into seats for corresponding games. This corresponds to the capacity that is available in international matches and European Cup matches.
• Boxes: states the number of box seats in the stadium.
• Business: Indicates the number of business seats in the stadium.
• Image: Shows the image of the stadium.
• Name: gives the name of the stadium.
• Former names: Provides the name (s) that the previous stadium at the same location or the current stadium used before name changes.
• City: Name the city in which the stadium is located.
• Career: states whether the stadium has a career for athletics competitions ( yes or no ).
• Opening: states the year in which the stadium was opened.
• New construction / conversion: states the year in which the stadium was last renovated, converted or rebuilt. Stadiums such as those in Hamburg or Frankfurt are considered to be remodeling, as they have been remodeled in stages while the game was still in progress.
• Costs: states the costs in millions of euros that were spent on the last renovation / new building.

Stages

space	Places (international)	Boxes	Busi- ness	image	Surname	city	running track	Eröff- voltage	New / remodeling	Costs (million €)
01	74,649	1,436	4,226		Olympiastadion Berlin	Berlin	Yes	1936	2004	242
02	70,000	1,374	2.152		Allianz Arena	Munich	No	2005	-	340
03	65,718	.0162	3,450		Signal Iduna Park	Dortmund	No	1974	2003	32
04th	63,666	.0000	.0333		Olympic Stadium Munich	Munich	Yes	1972	2002	-
05	54.903	.0900	2,600		Mercedes-Benz Arena	Stuttgart	No	1933	2011	60
06th	54,740	.0812	2,445		Veltins Arena	Gelsenkirchen	No	2001	-	191
07th	51,750	.0659	3,240		Volksparkstadion	Hamburg	No	1925	1999	64
08th	51,500	.0324	1,269		Mercury game arena	Dusseldorf	No	1926	2005	218
09	48.132	1,000	2,200		Deutsche Bank Park	Frankfurt am Main	No	1925	2005	126
10	47,500	.0108	1,261		Fritz Walter Stadium	Kaiserslautern	No	1920	2006	77
11	46,249	.0566	1,500		Borussia Park	Mönchengladbach	No	2004	-	87
12	46.120	.0552	1.941		Rheinenergiestadion	Cologne	No	1923	2004	120
13	44,652	.0310	1,242		HDI arena	Hanover	No	1954	2004	67
14th	44,308	.0180	1,184		Max Morlock Stadium	Nuremberg	Yes	1928	2005	56
15th	42,959	.0493	1,379		Red Bull Arena	Leipzig	No	1956	2004	90
16	37,512	.0646	1,516		Weser Stadium	Bremen	No	1909	2004	-
17th	29,412	.0140	2,000		BayArena	Leverkusen	No	1958	2009	70
18th	28,367	.0520	1,576		WWK arena	augsburg	No	2009	-	45
19th	28,000	.0400	1,789		Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena	Duisburg	No	2005	-	43
20th	27,250	.0376	1,348		Tivoli	Aachen	No	2009	-	50
21st	27,190	.0212	1,170		Rudolf Harbig Stadium	Dresden	No	1923	2009	46
22nd	26,600	.0650	2,100		Opel Arena	Mainz	No	2011	-	60
23	26,385	.0320	1,380		Volkswagen Arena	Wolfsburg	No	2002	-	53
24	25,641	.0500	1,400		Rhein-Neckar-Arena	Sinsheim	No	2009	-	60
25th	25,000	.0180	.0430		MDCC arena	Magdeburg	No	2006	-	31
26th	25,000	.0270	1,000		Ostseestadion	Rostock	No	1954	2001	28

See also

• List of the largest stadiums in the world
• List of the largest football stadiums in the world
• List of the largest halls in Germany

literature

• Frank Jasperneite, Oliver Leisner: Groundhopping Informer - 2007/2008. Hubert & Co., Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89784-335-6 .
• Hardy Grüne, Michael Müller-Möhring: 1000 tips for away games. Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-207-6 .
• Werner Skrentny (Hrsg.): The big book of the German football stadiums. Verlag Die Werkstatt GmbH, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89533-306-9 .
• Axel Springer AG (publisher): special issue - Bundesliga 2007/2008, plus 2nd league / 3rd division League. Hamburg 2007.
• Kicker (Ed.): Special issue - Bundesliga 07/08: Olympia verlag GmbH, Nuremberg 2007, ISSN  0948-7964 .
• Stadionwelt (Ed.): Fascination Stadium 2006. The World Cup stadiums. History - portraits - outlook. Brühl 2005.

Web links

• StadiumDB
• World stadiums
• The Stadium Guide

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Frank Jasperneite, Oliver Leisner: Groundhopping Informer - 2007/2008.
2. ↑ Until 2005 FC Bayern Munich , TSV 1860 Munich
3. ↑ SID : Germany wins record game against the USA. In: welt.de. Die Welt , May 7, 2010, accessed September 1, 2012 . 
4. ↑ One stadium, many names. (No longer available online.) In: von-zeit-zu-zeit.de. Stuttgarter Zeitung , archived from the original on October 21, 2013 ; accessed on November 21, 2013 (according to unofficial information, the number of viewers was 120,000). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ DFB-Pokal 11/12, round of 16: statistics. In: rp-online.de. Rheinische Post , December 21, 2011, accessed on November 21, 2013 . 
6. ↑ Andreas Debski, Michael Kraske, Ingolf Rackwitz: Central Stadium Leipzig - From the stadium of the hundred thousand to the football temple . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-360-01280-1 : According to unofficial information, the audience was 120,000
7. ↑ Chemnitzer FC training ground .
8. ↑ Numbers and facts about the stadium on greuther-fuerth.de
9. ^ Football temple of the world

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