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Allianz Arena ( German: [aˈli̯ants ʔaˌʁeːna]; known as Fußball Arena München for UEFA competitions) is a football stadium in Munich, Bavaria, Germany with a 70,000 seating capacity for international matches and 75,000 for domestic matches.

The Allianz Arena, opened in 2005, was designed purely as a football stadium. The architecturally unique arena was constructed in under three years. Read on for comprehensive facts and figures about the state-of-the-art stadium in the heart of Europe.

Allianz Arena is a great modern stadium and can be accessible by metro. It's 40 minutes far from the city center. Despite it is well organized with tours in several languages, we were unlucky with our tour guide, that was very little emphatic and kept asking questions to the tourists to guess about the stadium facts.

Allianz Arena, stadium in Munich that was designed by the architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron and completed in 2005. When Germany was awarded the honor of hosting the soccer World Cup in 2004, it needed new stadiums to accommodate the matches. The Allianz Arena was one of the most successful of these stadiums.

The Allianz Arena in Munich design by Herzog & de Meuron Architects sets a new architectural milestone in stadium design. It opened in May 2005, replacing the city’s old Olympic Stadium as the new home to the football clubs Bayern Munich, in 1 Bundesliga, and TSV 1860 Munich, in 2 Bundesliga.