AOL Arena - Hamburg
Population: 1.7 million
Stadium: FIFA World Cup Stadium Hamburg
Project: New stadium
Investment: €97m
Gross Capacity: 51,055
Total Seating Capacity: 45,442 (*)
Purchasable Ticket Capacity (**)
Group stage: 40,918
Quarter-finals: 40,226
The stadium is home to SV Hamburg and is located in the north of Germany. This attractive looking stadium has a capacity of over 51 thousand which makes for a perfect venue for the World cup 2006. The first World cup game the stadium will host is on the 10th June 2006, a match between Argentina and Ivory coast (match 5). The stadium will also host games between Ecuador and Costa Rica (match 18), Saudi Arabia and Ukraine (match32), Czech Republic and Italy (match 41) and they will also host game 58, teams in the Quarter finals