Mewa Arena, Football stadium in Mainz, Germany
The Mewa Arena is a football stadium in Mainz with two tiers of red seating divided by grey concrete stairways, covered by a flat overhanging roof with a grey metal grid and white lights. The pitch lies about 5 metres below the surrounding ground level. It holds 34,034 spectators, 19,700 of them seated.
The venue replaced the Bruchwegstadion and opened in 2011. Tunisian player Sami Allagui scored the first Bundesliga goal on August 7 against Bayer Leverkusen.
The stadium's name has changed with its sponsors: it opened in 2011 as the Coface Arena, was the Opel Arena from 2016 to 2021, and since July 2021 has carried the name of MEWA Textil-Service, a German linen rental company. UEFA matches use the name 1. FSV Mainz 05 Arena because of sponsorship rules.
The stadium features 2,700 VIP seats, with 2,000 in dedicated sections and 700 distributed across individual viewing boxes. On match days, early arrival is recommended due to entrance controls.
The stadium's pitch lies about five metres below the surrounding ground level, a hollow created during excavation in 2009. The displaced topsoil was hauled to Budenheim to shape a new golf course. The arena sits in a cold-air corridor at the entrance to Mainz, on the fields of Bretzenheim.
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