Hello football/soccer fans (and anyone who wants to become one ;-) ),

in the past, we had a few nice football-related events that I really enjoyed. Inspired by them, I wanted to do one by myself.

In the past, I was fortunate enough to visit many different football stadiums around Europe that I really enjoyed. They were modern, old, atmospheric, places where history was made, exotic... ...but all of them were great experiences. I can't think of many better things than a full-packed, loud stadium during an exciting match. ;-)

To let you all take part in my stadium tour across Europe, I decided to start a puzzle which includes 16 stadiums I have visited in the last 23 years, when I visited my first stadium.

PUZZLE

It will probably be not to easy to identify all of them in the beginning, but I will provide useful hints from time to time.

To make things not too difficult, it is enough to name the city where the stadium stands (answers from German/English Wikipedia are correct).

By solving this puzzle, you get access to a train of 14 bundled games. The giveaway ends in two weeks (November18th 19:09 Uhr/German Time :-D ), so it should be enough time for anyone interested to solve this puzzle.

If you want to contribute to this thread, you may post anything related to football/soccer. ;-)

Good luck/Have fun!

General hint: :I visited all stadiums from 7 to 16 (with the exception of stadium 9) to visit away games of the German national team
General hint 2: :Games of the European Championship Tournament have taken place in stadiums 7, 9, 11, 14 and 15 in the last twenty years
General hint 3: :Germany played away games in 4 of the stadiums in the qualifiying for EURO 2016

Stadium 1:Germany///Lower Saxony///Arch Rival: Preussen Münster///3.Liga
Stadium 2:Germany///Alberto Colucci///Arch Rival: Kickers Offenbach///promoted to Bundesliga
Stadium 3:Germany///Blur-Song 2///Arch Rival: plays in the same city///Weltpokalsiegerbesieger
Stadium 4:Germany///Derbysieger///Arch Rival: *** 04///Südtribüne
Stadium 5:Germany/November 11th///Arch Rival: the other Borussia///Hennes VIII.
Stadium 6:Germany///German Wembley///Arch Rival: same as Stadium 4///German Cup Final
Stadium 7:United Kingdom///SummerSlam///Dietmar Hamann/demolished in 2002/2003
Stadium 8:United Kingdom///Champions League Final///Tartan Army///biggest stadium in the world until 1950
Stadium 9:United Kingdom///Summer Olympics///Tyne-Wear///Geordie
Stadium 10:Eurasia///UEFA Super Cup///Rugby///Capacity:54549
Stadium 11:Southern Europe///Gibraltar///European Championship///Algarve Cup Final
Stadium 12:Southeast Europe///U20 World Cup///was in Guinness World Records Book in 2011///city lies on two continents
Stadium 13:Scandinavia/Women's Euro Final///an important match is played here on Saturday (November 14th)///biggest stadium in Nordic Countries
Stadium 14:Eastern Europe///Volleyball Men's World Championship///retractable roof///Dnipro Dnipropetrowsk vs. FC Sevilla
Stadium 15:Eastern Europe///UEFA Euro quarterfinal///Baltic Sea///Ekstraklasa
Stadium 16:Eastern Europe///Opened:1921///Staropramen///Home team was first winner of Mitropa Cup

8 years ago*

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reserved ;-)

I forget to add:
To make things not too difficult, it is enough to name the city where the stadium stands (answers from German/English Wikipedia are correct).
Hints will appear in the thread from time to time!

8 years ago
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First hints will be added this evening (German time)!

8 years ago
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First hints on the location of the stadiums are added...

8 years ago
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General hint added!

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Another general hint added!

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2nd Hint added to each of the stadiums!

8 years ago
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Next general hint added!

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3rd hint added to Stadiums 1-6

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3rd hint for stadiums 7-11 added

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3rd hint for 12-16 added

8 years ago
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4th and last hint added for all stadiums - puzzle will end by tomorrow - all games have between 8 and 16 entries, so chances should be not too bad. ;)

8 years ago
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Bump for solved! :-)

8 years ago
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nice puzzle
bump

8 years ago
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Bump for solved :)

8 years ago
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Bump from solver #5 :)

8 years ago
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bump for solved, thanks:D

8 years ago
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Bump, you have visited a lot of stadiums D: I have only visited like.... 3 xd

8 years ago
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Bump for solved!

8 years ago
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bump for solved!

8 years ago
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I admit I "cheated" using google. Wouldn't be able to solve it by myself. Just here to bump anyway ;)

8 years ago
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A few hints later it wouldn't have been that difficult anymore, I suppose. ;-)
But using Google isn't forbidden, as I was too lazy to search for pictures I took by myself. ;-)

8 years ago
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Thanks for the puzzle and train :)

8 years ago
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Bump for solved and I so want to watch a game on Signal Iduna Park

8 years ago
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If you have the chance - go for it!
I'm probably biased being a BVB supporter, but out of my list, it is definitely the greatest experience (although stadium 7 was also very special).

8 years ago
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I love how the fans sold out the stadium for almost every game

8 years ago
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I want to see a BVB home game in a few months from now, probably March-April 2016, but I can't find tickets in the official website. Is the only option is buying from a third party reseller or am I missing something?

https://www.eventimsports.de/ols/bvb/en

8 years ago
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Unfortunately, it's pretty tough to buy tickets for home games. BVB sold 55000 season tickets (stadium capacity is 81359), 10% of the tickets (~8000) are reserved for visiting teams and the rest of the tickets is mostly sold exclusively to members.
So it's pretty seldom that there is an "open" ticket sale. Your chances might be best against opponents that don't bring too many own supporters to Dortmund (of the remaining games this season, your chances might be best against teams like Ingolstadt, Wolfsburg, Hoffenheim and Hanover).

8 years ago
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Bump!

8 years ago
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Bump :)

8 years ago
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Bump for solved, thanks for the nice puzzle! ^^

8 years ago
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Easy until u get to the ones that aren''t in the UK or Germany :D
Strugling on 10! :(

Completed it after some thinking pretty hard kinda sad im not level 1 just yet to enter the giveaways thanks anyway!

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Bump for solved! thx a lot for this fun puzzle penguins6687 :) u explained above, but it could be more fun (and sure harder as well) if u included stadium names. but its obvious confusion about names would make a lot ppl crazy (i guess me too :p) so, it seems this way is better. thx a lot again :)))

8 years ago
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bump for solved, thanks!

8 years ago
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Bump for solved, thanks for the nice puzzle :)

8 years ago
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Bump for solved :)

8 years ago
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Bump for solved.

My team's stadium:

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Bump for solved!

8 years ago
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Even been to the one in Q8 but it didn't click right from the start..

8 years ago
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Solve bump!

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Bump for solved

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