Atatürk Olympic Stadium

• Istanbul BB
• Besiktas Istanbul

• UEFA Champions League 2005
• Turkish Super Cup 2009, 2010

The Atatürk Olympic Stadium (Turkish: Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadyumu ) in the European part of Istanbul Bosporus metropolis in Başakşehir district has 76 092 seats, the biggest football and athletics stadium ( multi-purpose stadium ) Turkey and currently the eighth-largest in Europe. Covering an area of ​​7,250 m² the stadium for more than 100 million euros was built in 2002 on the occasion of the bid to host the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.

The roof of the stadium resembles a crescent, and has an area of ​​18,600 square meters and a weight of 3,400 tons. The major pillars of the crescent roof structure 72 meters high. It covers 70 percent of the spectators, but is expected in Turkey with rare rain.

The Atatürk Olympic Stadium was awarded by the European football association UEFA in 2004 as a five - star stadium. The football club Galatasaray wore in the 2003/2004 season sporadically its home games for renovation of one's Ali Sami Yen Stadium is from. In 2005, the Champions League final between AC Milan and Liverpool FC was played here as well.

Attendance Records

The opening match between Galatasaray SK and Olympiacos CFP was the game with the second most viewers in Turkey after the encounter Göztepe against Karsiyakaspor, which was held in 1981 in the 2nd league in front of 80,000 fans. In the game around 68,000 tickets were sold, but another 12,000 paying visitors was granted without a ticket admission.

Transport links

To the stadium since June 14, 2013 leading the Metro Line 3 M The long lack of public transportation had unusually large parking areas necessitated the further south are grouped around the facility and.