Olympic Stadium (Berlin)
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| Full name | Olympiastadion Berlin |
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| Former names | Deutsches Stadion |
| Location | Westend, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany |
| Coordinates | 52°30′53″N 13°14′22″E / 52.51472°N 13.23944°ECoordinates: 52°30′53″N 13°14′22″E / 52.51472°N 13.23944°E |
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Olympia-Stadion Olympiastadion |
| Owner | Olympiastadion Berlin GmbH |
| Operator | WALTER BAU-AG/DYWIDAG |
| Capacity | 74,475 |
| Field size | 105 × 68 m |
| Surface | Grass |
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| Built | 1934 to 1936 |
| Opened | 1 August 1936 |
| Renovated | 1974 (Reconfiguration) 2000-2004 (World Cup) |
| Construction cost | 43 million RM (1936) €297 million (2016) |
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Werner March/Albert Speer (1936) Friedrich Wilhelm Krahe (1974) |
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Hertha BSC (1963–present) German national football team (Selected matches) |
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The Olympiastadion Berlin (German pronunciation: [ʔoˈlʏmpi̯aːˌʃtaːdi̯ɔn]) is a sports stadium in Berlin, Germany. It was originally built for the 1936 Summer Olympics by Werner March. During the Olympics, the record attendance was thought to be over 100,000. Today the stadium is part of the Olympiapark Berlin.
Since renovations in 2004, the Olympiastadion has a permanent capacity of 74,475 seats and is the largest stadium in Germany for international football matches. Olympiastadion is a UEFA category four stadium and one of the world's most prestigious venues for sporting and entertainment events.
Besides its use as an athletics stadium, the arena has built a footballing tradition. Since 1963, it has been the home ground of the Hertha BSC football team. It hosted three matches in the 1974 FIFA World Cup. It was renovated for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, when it hosted six matches, including the final. The German Cup (DFB-Pokal) final match is held each year at the venue. The Olympiastadion Berlin served as a host for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup as well as the 2015 UEFA Champions League Final.
During the 1912 Summer Olympics, the city of Berlin was designated by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to host the 1916 Summer Olympics. Germany's proposed stadium for this event was to be located in Charlottenburg, in the Grunewald Forest, to the west of Berlin—thus the stadium was also known as Grunewaldstadion. A horse racing-course already existed there which belonged to the Berliner Rennverein, and even today the old ticket booths survive on Jesse-Owens-Allee. The government of Germany decided not to build in the nearby Grunewald forest, or to renovate buildings that already existed. Because of this desire, they hired the same architect who originally had built the "Rennverein", Otto March.
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