MHPArena, Association football venue in Bad Cannstatt, Stuttgart, Germany.
The MHPArena is an oval football stadium in the Neckarpark in Stuttgart's Bad Cannstatt district, home ground of VfB Stuttgart. Its fabric roof of PVC-coated polyester panels is carried by a steel frame weighing about 2,700 tonnes and leaves a rectangular opening above the pitch. The bowl holds 60,058 spectators for league matches and 54,812 for internationals, with red seating and standing terraces in the Cannstatter Kurve.
Originally opened in July 1933 under the name Stuttgarter Kampfbahn, the stadium was designed by architects Paul Bonatz and Friedrich Eugen Scholer and has undergone multiple expansions and renovations over the decades.
The stadium's name has changed several times: it was the Neckarstadion from 1949 to 1993, then the Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion until 2008, the Mercedes-Benz Arena until 2023, and now the MHPArena. The Cannstatter Kurve holds the VfB Stuttgart ultras and a video wall; its lower tier has 8,000 standing places since 2011. The Cannstatter Volksfest takes place about 250 metres west on the Cannstatter Wasen.
Located at Mercedesstraße 87 in the Bad Cannstatt district, the stadium offers wheelchair accessible facilities and is easily reached through well-connected public transportation routes within Stuttgart.
The stadium is the only venue in Europe to have hosted matches at multiple World Cups, European Championships and European Cup/Champions League finals, including the 1959 and 1988 European Cup finals. Its record attendance of 96,400 was set at the 1950 international against Switzerland, a match journalists estimated drew over 100,000 people.
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