About Veltins-Arena
Arena AufSchalke, currently known as Veltins-Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a retractable roof and pitch, football stadium in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It opened on 13 August 2001, as the new home ground for FC Schalke 04. The stadium has a capacity of 62,271 for league matches and 54,740 for international matches. It hosted four matches at UEFA Euro 2024. The naming rights to the stadium were sold in July 2005 to the German brewery Veltins.
62,273
seats
Germany
country
1
resident club
316
matches tracked
Home of (1)
Matches at Veltins-Arena - 316 home games in our dataset
Biggest home wins
| Date | Match | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2011-12-17 | FC Schalke 04 vs Werder Bremen | 5, 0 |
| 2024-08-03 | FC Schalke 04 vs Eintracht Braunschweig | 5, 1 |
| 2011-08-13 | FC Schalke 04 vs 1. FC Köln | 5, 1 |
| 2016-10-02 | FC Schalke 04 vs Bor. Mönchengladbach | 4, 0 |
| 2010-11-20 | FC Schalke 04 vs Werder Bremen | 4, 0 |
| 2012-02-19 | FC Schalke 04 vs VfL Wolfsburg | 4, 0 |
| 2014-03-08 | FC Schalke 04 vs 1899 Hoffenheim | 4, 0 |
| 2011-11-19 | FC Schalke 04 vs 1. FC Nürnberg | 4, 0 |
Highest-scoring matches
| Date | Match | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2013-01-18 | FC Schalke 04 vs Hannover 96 | 5, 4 |
| 2026-02-21 | FC Schalke 04 vs 1. FC Magdeburg | 5, 3 |
| 2024-09-20 | FC Schalke 04 vs SV Darmstadt 98 | 3, 5 |
| 2025-02-01 | FC Schalke 04 vs 1. FC Magdeburg | 2, 5 |
| 2024-10-26 | FC Schalke 04 vs SpVgg Greuther Fürth | 3, 4 |
| 2023-09-16 | FC Schalke 04 vs 1. FC Magdeburg | 4, 3 |
| 2023-04-14 | FC Schalke 04 vs Hertha BSC | 5, 2 |
| 2023-01-24 | FC Schalke 04 vs RB Leipzig | 1, 6 |
Recent matches
| Date | Comp | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-17 | L1 |
Schalke 04 | 0, 1 | Mainz |
| 2026-10-17 | L1 |
FC Schalke 04 | 0, 1 | 1. FSV Mainz 05 |
| 2026-09-20 | L1 |
Schalke 04 | 0, 0 | SV Elversberg |
| 2026-09-20 | L1 |
FC Schalke 04 | 0, 0 | SV 07 Elversberg |
| 2026-09-05 | L1 |
Schalke 04 | 0, 0 | Bayern Munich |
| 2026-09-05 | L1 |
FC Schalke 04 | 0, 0 | FC Bayern München |
| 2026-05-17 | L2 |
FC Schalke 04 | 1, 0 | Eintracht Braunschweig |
| 2026-05-17 | L2 |
Schalke 04 | 1, 0 | TSV Eintracht Braunschweig |
| 2026-05-02 | L2 |
FC Schalke 04 | 1, 0 | Fortuna Düsseldorf |
| 2026-04-19 | L2 |
FC Schalke 04 | 4, 1 | Preußen Münster |
| 2026-04-05 | L2 |
FC Schalke 04 | 1, 0 | Karlsruher SC |
| 2026-03-15 | L2 |
FC Schalke 04 | 2, 2 | Hannover 96 |
| 2026-03-06 | L2 |
FC Schalke 04 | 1, 0 | Arminia Bielefeld |
| 2026-02-21 | L2 |
FC Schalke 04 | 5, 3 | 1. FC Magdeburg |
| 2026-02-07 | L2 |
FC Schalke 04 | 2, 2 | Dynamo Dresden |
| 2026-01-25 | L2 |
FC Schalke 04 | 2, 2 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern |
| 2025-12-14 | L2 |
FC Schalke 04 | 1, 0 | 1. FC Nürnberg |
| 2025-11-28 | L2 |
FC Schalke 04 | 2, 1 | SC Paderborn 07 |
| 2025-11-08 | L2 |
FC Schalke 04 | 1, 0 | SV 07 Elversberg |
| 2025-10-24 | L2 |
FC Schalke 04 | 1, 0 | SV Darmstadt 98 |
Most-hosted competitions
L1 · 210
L2 · 69
CL · 20
EL · 13
L1C · 4