Glückauf-Kampfbahn, Football stadium in Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Glückauf-Kampfbahn is a football stadium in Gelsenkirchen whose covered grandstand has a dark corrugated metal roof on slender black posts. Reddish-brown seats rise on blue-painted steps between black railings, with red handrails on concrete steps at the right and a light grey stone base. The ground holds about 11,000 spectators.

Built from August 1927 on the site of the former Consolidation colliery, the stadium opened on 2 September 1928 with a field handball match, an athletics competition and a 3-2 football win over Tennis Borussia Berlin. It served as FC Schalke 04's home until the Parkstadion opened in 1973. Heavily damaged at the end of 1944, it was repaired after the war; in the late 1980s the standing terraces were removed, leaving the listed main stand.

The name comes from the miners' greeting 'Glückauf', used at the former Consolidation colliery whose grounds the stadium was built on from 1927. The 1,200 seats added before the 1928 opening were unusual for a workers' club like Schalke, as seated stands were then a privilege of bourgeois clubs.

The stadium is located on Kurt-Schumacher-Straße and operated by DJK Teutonia Schalke-Nord for regular match events. Visitors should check in advance for event schedules and any entry requirements before planning a visit.

A friendly match in 1931 against Fortuna Düsseldorf drew an enormous crowd that far exceeded the stadium's intended size. This event reveals how deeply the local community embraced and supported the sport at that time.