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Veltins-Arena
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Arena AufSchalke.
Arena AufSchalke (German pronunciation:), currently known as Veltins-Arena (pronounced) for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium with a retractable roof and slide-out pitch in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It opened on 13 August 2001 as the new home ground of FC Schalke 04. The stadium has a capacity of 62,271 for league matches and 54,740 for international matches. Its naming rights were sold to the German brewery Veltins in July 2005.