Berlin - Olympiastadion

Berlin

One of Europe's most exciting cities, Berlin will be a fitting location for the World Cup Final. A city that has undergone dramatic changes since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Berlin is now a booming tourist destination for many who are drawn by its history, its cultural treasures and its thriving nightlife.

Scheduled Matches

Six World Cup games will be staged at Berlin's Olympiastadion, including four group matches, a quarter-final, and the final. The match schedule is as follows:

Match #	Date & Time	Group	Teams		Result	Venue
11	Tue 13th Jun 21:00	F	BRA	CRO	1 - 0	Berlin
20	Thu 15th Jun 21:00	B	SWE	PAR	1 - 0	Berlin
33	Tue 20th Jun 16:00	A	ECU	GER	0 - 3	Berlin
48	Fri 23rd Jun 16:00	H	UKR	TUN	1 - 0	Berlin
57	Fri 30th Jun 17:00	QF	GER	ARG	1 - 1 aet 4 - 2 pen	Berlin
64	Sun 9th Jul 20:00	FIN	ITA	FRA	1 - 1 aet 5 - 3 pen	Berlin

Match times shown are local times for Germany (CEST/GMT+0200). Click on match date/time to view match statistics.

Olympiastadion

Berlin's Olympiastadion was built specially for the 1936 Olympic Games, where American sprinter Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the games. One of the avenues leading to the Stadium has been named Jesse Owens Allee.

The stadium was renovated prior to hosting three games in the 1974 FIFA World Cup. Since 1985 the German League Cup final has been played at the Olympiastadion. The Olympiastadion is also the traditional home venue of Bundesliga team Hertha BSC, often drawing capacity crowds.

Renovation work ahead of the World Cup 2006 began in the summer of 2000, and lasted four years. It cost €242 million euro. The reconstructed Olympiastadion has 74,500 covered seats, including 5,000 in executive suites. Two giant video screens, measuring 140 and 56 square metres respectively, have been installed as well as 5,000 fluorescent lamps along the front edge of the roof to avoid dazzling the crowd which permit a wide variety of exciting atmospheric effects.

World Cup Fan Fest in Berlin

The official FIFA organised Fan Fest will be held at the Spreebogen Park in central Berlin, on land in the government district between the Reichstag and the city's new central station. The Fan Fest will be easy to reach by public transport, the nearest stations being Berlin central station (known as Berlin Hauptbahnhof - Lehrter Stadt Bahnhof), Unter den Linden, and Friedrichstrasse.

There will also be a large screen area at Potsdamer Platz in the Mitte district. It will be easy to reach by public transport, the nearest stations beeing Potsdamer Platz (U-bahn and S-bahn).

Travelling to Berlin

Berlin is served by 3 airports where 67 airlines connect it to 167 airports in 53 countries. The city's three airports are Tegel (TXL), in the north-east 8km from the city center, Schönefeld (SXF) in the south-east 18km from the city center, and Tempelhof (THF) centrally located 6km to the south of the city center on the southern edge of Kreuzberg. Tegel, by far the busiest, serves western Europe, Schönefeld caters more for no-frills flights, eastern Europe and Asia, and Tempelhof domestic and some European flights.

The stadium is situated to the west of central Berlin and easily reached by public transport (30 minutes from the centre). A taxi would cost around €35 euro to the city centre from Schönefeld or €20 euro from Tegel. Traffic delays are likely due the closure of roads in the centre of Berlin to accommodate the fan zones. Travel to the stadium from the city would be by public transport (U-bahn and S-bahn) direct to the Olympiastadion station.

Useful links & information:

Stadium address:

Olympiastadion Berlin GmbH
Olympischer Platz 3
14053 Berlin
Tel. +49 (0)30 306 88 100
Fax. +49 (0)30 306 88 120