VEB Arena

VEB Arena

UEFA
Location	Khodynka Field, Moscow, Russia
Coordinates	55°47′29″N 37°30′58″E / 55.79139°N 37.51611°E / 55.79139; 37.51611
Public transit	CSKA Zorge
Owner	PFC CSKA Moscow
Operator	PFC CSKA Moscow
Capacity	30,457 (Russian Premier League)[3]
Record attendance	29,284 (12 April 2018)
Field size	110 x 68 m
Surface	Grass
Construction
Broke ground	19 May 2007
Opened	10 September 2016[1]
Construction cost	350 million USD[2]
Tenants
PFC CSKA Moscow (2016–present) Russia national football team (selected matches)

VEB Arena (Russian: «ВЭБ-Арена»), known as Arena CSKA due to UEFA sponsorship regulations, is a multi-use stadium in Khodynka Field, Moscow, Russia, that was completed in 2016. It is used mostly for football matches and host the home matches of PFC CSKA Moscow and occasionally the Russian national team.

The stadium is located near the Khodynka Field in the Park of Birch Grove.

History

The construction process started in 2007 but had been halted several times, with the longest pause lasting 16 months (between 2009 and 2011).

The VEB Arena has a capacity around 30,000 people. An integral part of the stadium is a skyscraper designed to resemble the

The first match at the new stadium was supposed to be the

On 27 September 2016, the stadium held its first European match; in the Champions League against the English club Tottenham Hotspur, in which CSKA lost 0–1. On 30 April 2017, CSKA lost 1–2 to Spartak Moscow. This was the first league defeat for CSKA in this stadium. On 9 June 2017, the Russian national team played at the stadium for the first time.

On 28 February 2017, CSKA Moscow announced that they had sold the naming rights to the stadium to Russian bank

Exactly a year after its first European match at the stadium, CSKA played in a UEFA Champions League match against another English team. Manchester United defeated CSKA 4–1 as the match broke the attendance record with 29,073 spectators.