Know Your Champions League Final Venue – Beautiful Photos Of The Allianz Arena In All Its Splendour
By Chris Wright
The Allianz Arena, decked out in a stately ‘Chelsea blue’
Set back and bite down on something folks, because there’s a whole shedload of Allianz Arena comin’ right at you! That’s right, we’re talking all 66,000 seats, all 106 VIP boxes, all 9,800 parking spaces (largest four-storey Esplanade car park in Europe baby!), all 232 floodlights and all of the 1,056 chameleon-like illuminated panels that go into making up the Allianz Arena in Munich: Bayern’s home and, conveniently for them, also the venue for this year’s Champions League Final on May 18th.
This way for a cavalcade of beautiful photos of the Allianz from both inside and out – the first four of which are incredibly detailed infographics which are well worth a once-over (click through on any photo to view the full-sized, hi-res image)…
We’ve also got a slideshow of the Allianz in all it’s multicoloured finery – including the colours of a couple of clubs that UEFA would probably have preferred to see contesting their showpiece come mid-May…
Ain’t she pretty?
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It won’t be called the Allianz Arena for the final though will it because UEFA are anal little fuckwits and don’t allow any unofficial sponsors anywhere near the Champions League even though I can imagine Allianz pay the 2 Munich clubs/stadium a shit load of money themselves to sponsor the stadium.
United even have to cover up their Audi logos on their subs bench F1 chairs.
which club do u support chris?
@Farmanian: Yep. For all my sins, I’m a Forest fan.
Forest I think?
It’s what wembley could have been, but they made a big concrete mess instead.
lovey stadium, still not as cool as the Westfalenstadion (Signal Iduna Park) in Dortmund!
in the first image it shows 1. Bus Park at the front of the building but I guess it’ll be somewhere in front of the goal line right?
Probably the best stadium in the world. Cant wait for chelsea to lift the trophy there .
bayern is lifting it buddy
@farmanian96
Nottingham Forest, but we all know deep down inside he’s actually a fan of the Celery. At least his articles seem to point toward that.
the stadium should turn blue when chelsea lifts it…
Stunner, gotta love the germans and their detailed infographics.
The only stadium I know with not one but two beer halls inside. Really superb. I imagine If its lit at all it will be some mix of blue and red like this
http://www.top10source.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/allianz_arena.jpg
dont worry farmanian, thats not gonna happen…