Germany
Schücoarena
The Schücoarena is a football stadium in Bielefeld. The stadium, which has a capacity of 26 000, is owned by the football club Arminia Bielefeld and is mostly used for the club's matches.
The football ground opened in 1926, with land acquired from a farmer. The stadium got its former name, Stadion Alm, because it didn't look like a football stadium in the first years and so one of Arminia Bielefeld's members said that just a few cows were missing in order to look like an Alm, German for alpine grassland. In 1957 it got its grass cover and the first grandstands were constructed.
Until 1971 the stands were all terraced, but with Arminia Bielefeld winning promotion to the 1. Bundesliga, the first stand with seating was constructed.
