About Allianz Arena
The Allianz Arena is a football stadium in Munich, Bavaria, Germany with a 75,000 seating capacity. Widely known for its exterior of inflated ETFE plastic panels, it is the first stadium in the world with a full color-changing exterior. Located at the northern edge of Munich's Schwabing-Freimann borough on the Fröttmaning Heath, it is the second-largest arena in Germany behind Westfalenstadion in Dortmund.
Since the start of the 2005–06 season, Bayern Munich has played its home games at the Allianz Arena. The stadium has hosted matches from the 2006 FIFA World Cup and served as the venue for the 2012 UEFA Champions League Final. The facade can be lit in red for Bayern Munich games, white for German national team games, and previously blue for TSV 1860 Munich games.
The luminous exterior makes the stadium visible from the Austrian Alps on clear nights, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) away. Inside, the three-tier seating structure ensures excellent sightlines from every angle. The acoustic design amplifies the noise of the "Südkurve," creating an intimidating atmosphere for visiting teams.
The venue was designed by the Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron in association with local practice ArupSport, and construction proceeded on an infill parcel of former agricultural moorland at Werner-Heisenberg-Allee 25 in the Fröttmaning district. Ownership of the ground is held by the operating company Allianz Arena München Stadion GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of FC Bayern München AG since April 2006 when the club bought out co-tenants TSV 1860 München for approximately 11 million euros. The plot is served by a purpose-built extension of the U-Bahn line U6, whose Fröttmaning station was rebuilt in 2005 with a 92-metre-long platform capable of processing 30,000 spectators per hour.