Editing 2006 FIFA World Cup (section)

==Venues==
In 2006, Germany had a plethora of football stadia that satisfied FIFA's minimum capacity of 40,000 seats for World Cup matches. The outdated and still-standing [[Olympiastadion (Munich)|Olympiastadion]] in Munich (69,250), the venue for the [[1974 FIFA World Cup Final|1974 final match]] was not used for the tournament, even though FIFA's regulations allow one city to use two stadia. [[Düsseldorf]]'s [[Esprit Arena|LTU Arena]] (51,500), [[Bremen]]'s [[Weser-Stadion|Weserstadion]] (43,000) and [[Mönchengladbach]]'s [[Borussia-Park]] (46,249) were also not used.

Twelve stadia were selected to host the World Cup matches. During the tournament, many of them were known by different names, as FIFA prohibits [[naming rights|sponsorship]] of stadia unless the stadium sponsors are also official FIFA sponsors.<ref name="StadiaNames">{{cite news |title=Stadiums renamed for Fifa sponsors |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4773843.stm |publisher=BBC |date=6 June 2006 |access-date=29 March 2008 |archive-date=13 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613190159/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4773843.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> For example, the [[Allianz Arena]] in Munich was known during the competition as ''FIFA World Cup Stadium, Munich'' ({{langx|de|link=no|FIFA WM-Stadion München}}), and even the letters of the company [[Allianz]] were removed or covered.<ref name="StadiaNames" /> Some of the stadia also had a lower capacity for the World Cup, as FIFA regulations ban standing room; nonetheless, this was accommodated as several stadia had a [[UEFA stadium categories|UEFA five-star ranking]]. The stadia in Berlin, Munich, Dortmund and Stuttgart hosted six matches each, whilst the other eight stadia hosted five matches each.

*''A cross denotes an indoor stadium.''

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
![[Berlin]]
![[Munich]], [[Bavaria]]
![[Dortmund]], [[North Rhine-Westphalia]]
![[Stuttgart]], [[Baden-Württemberg]]
|-
|[[Olympiastadion (Berlin)|Olympiastadion]]
|[[Allianz Arena]]<br />'''{{small|(FIFA World Cup Stadium, Munich)}}'''
|[[Westfalenstadion|Signal Iduna Park]]<br />'''{{small|(FIFA World Cup Stadium, Dortmund)}}'''
|[[MHPArena|Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion]]
|-
|{{small|{{Coord|52|30|53|N|13|14|22|E|region:DE_type:landmark|display=inline|name=Olympiastadion (Berlin)}}}}
|{{small|{{Coord|48|13|7.59|N|11|37|29.11|E|region:DE_type:landmark|display=inline|name=Allianz Arena}}}}
|{{small|{{Coord|51|29|33.25|N|7|27|6.63|E|region:DE_type:landmark|display=inline|name=Signal Iduna Park}}}}
|{{small|{{Coord|48|47|32.17|N|9|13|55.31|E|region:DE_type:landmark|display=inline|name=Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion}}}}
|-
|Capacity: '''72,000'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/s/berlin.html |title=Berlin |work=FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) |access-date=16 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060616074010/http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/s/berlin.html |archive-date=16 June 2006}}</ref>
|Capacity: '''66,000'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/s/munchen.html |title=Munich |work=FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) |access-date=16 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060616074102/http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/s/munchen.html |archive-date=16 June 2006}}</ref>
|Capacity: '''65,000'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/s/dortmund.html |title=Dortmund |work=FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) |access-date=16 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060616074153/http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/s/dortmund.html |archive-date=16 June 2006}}</ref>
|Capacity: '''52,000'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/s/stuttgart.html |title=Stuttgart |work=FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) |access-date=16 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060616074248/http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/s/stuttgart.html |archive-date=16 June 2006}}</ref>
|-
|[[File:Stade Olympique Berlin Ext.JPG|200px]]
|[[File:München - Allianz-Arena (Luftbild).jpg|200px]]
|[[File:Signal iduna park stadium dortmund 6.jpg|200px]]
|[[File:Stuttgart stadium.jpg|200px]]
|-
![[Gelsenkirchen]], [[North Rhine-Westphalia]]
|colspan="2" rowspan="10"|
{{location map+|Germany|float=none|width=400|places=
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{{location map~|Germany|lat=51.492569|long=7.451842|label=[[Dortmund]]|position=right}}
{{location map~|Germany|lat=48.218775|long=11.624753|label=[[Munich]]}}
{{location map~|Germany|lat=48.792269|long=9.232031|label=[[Stuttgart]]}}
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{{location map~|Germany|lat=53.587158|long=9.898617|label=[[Hamburg]]}}
{{location map~|Germany|lat=50.068572|long=8.645458|label=[[Frankfurt]]}}
{{location map~|Germany|lat=50.933497|long=6.874997|label=[[Cologne]]}}
{{location map~|Germany|lat=52.360067|long=9.731197|label=[[Hanover]]}}
{{location map~|Germany|lat=51.345794|long=12.348219|label=[[Leipzig]]}}
{{location map~|Germany|lat=49.434711|long=7.776456|label=[[Kaiserslautern]]}}
{{location map~|Germany|lat=49.426111|long=11.125833|label=[[Nuremberg]]}}}}
![[Hamburg]]
|-
|[[Arena AufSchalke]]{{dagger}}<br />'''{{small|(FIFA World Cup Stadium, Gelsenkirchen)}}'''
|[[Volksparkstadion|AOL Arena]]<br />'''{{small|(FIFA World Cup Stadium, Hamburg)}}'''
|-
|{{small|{{Coord|51|33|16.21|N|7|4|3.32|E|region:DE_type:landmark|display=inline|name=Arena AufSchalke}}}}
|{{small|{{Coord|53|35|13.77|N|9|53|55.02|E|region:DE_type:landmark|display=inline|name=AOL Arena}}}}
|-
|Capacity: '''52,000'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/s/gelsenkirchen.html |title=Gelsenkirchen |work=FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) |access-date=16 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060616074452/http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/s/gelsenkirchen.html |archive-date=16 June 2006}}</ref>
|Capacity: '''50,000'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/s/hamburg.html |title=Hamburg |work=FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) |access-date=16 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060616074038/http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/s/hamburg.html |archive-date=16 June 2006}}</ref>
|-
|[[File:Arena auf schalke veltins arena gelsenkirchen 1.jpg|200px]]
|[[File:RK 1009 9831 Volksparkstadion.jpg|200px]]
|-
![[Frankfurt]], [[Hesse]]
![[Kaiserslautern]], [[Rhineland-Palatinate]]
|-
|[[Waldstadion (Frankfurt)|Commerzbank-Arena]]{{dagger}}<br />'''{{small|(FIFA World Cup Stadium, Frankfurt)}}'''
|[[Fritz-Walter-Stadion]]
|-
|{{small|{{Coord|50|4|6.86|N|8|38|43.65|E|region:DE_type:landmark|display=inline|name=Commerzbank Arena}}}}
|{{small|{{Coord|49|26|4.96|N|7|46|35.24|E|region:DE_type:landmark|display=inline|name=Fritz-Walter-Stadion}}}}
|-
|Capacity: '''48,000'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/s/frankfurt.html |title=Frankfurt |work=FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) |access-date=16 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060616074236/http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/s/frankfurt.html |archive-date=16 June 2006}}</ref>
|Capacity: '''46,000'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/s/kaiserslautern.html |title=Kaiserslautern |work=FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) |access-date=16 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060616074517/http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/s/kaiserslautern.html |archive-date=16 June 2006}}</ref>
|-
|[[File:Aerial view of Commerzbank-Arena.jpg|200px]]
|[[File:Betzenberg_luftaufnahme.jpg|200px]]
|-
![[Cologne]], [[North Rhine-Westphalia]]
![[Hanover]], [[Lower Saxony]]
![[Leipzig]], [[Saxony]]
![[Nuremberg]], [[Bavaria]]
|-
|[[RheinEnergieStadion]]<br />'''{{small|(FIFA World Cup Stadium, Cologne)}}'''
|[[Niedersachsenstadion|AWD-Arena]]<br />'''{{small|(FIFA World Cup Stadium, Hanover)}}'''
|[[Red Bull Arena (Leipzig)|Zentralstadion]]
|[[Max-Morlock-Stadion|easyCredit-Stadion]]<br />'''{{small|(Frankenstadion)}}'''
|-
|{{small|{{Coord|50|56|0.59|N|6|52|29.99|E|region:DE_type:landmark|display=inline|name=RheinEnergie Stadion}}}}
|{{small|{{Coord|52|21|36.24|N|9|43|52.31|E|region:DE_type:landmark|display=inline|name=AWD-Arena}}}}
|{{small|{{Coord|51|20|44.86|N|12|20|53.59|E|region:DE_type:landmark|display=inline|name=Zentralstadion}}}}
|{{small|{{Coord|49|25|34|N|11|7|33|E|region:DE_type:landmark|display=inline|name=EasyCredit-Stadion}}}}
|-
|Capacity: '''45,000'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/s/koln.html |title=Cologne |work=FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) |access-date=16 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060616073933/http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/s/koln.html |archive-date=16 June 2006}}</ref>
|Capacity: '''43,000'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/s/hannover.html |title=Hanover |work=FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) |access-date=16 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060616074210/http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/s/hannover.html |archive-date=16 June 2006}}</ref>
|Capacity: '''43,000'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/s/leipzig.html |title=Leipzig |work=FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) |access-date=16 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060616074050/http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/s/leipzig.html |archive-date=16 June 2006}}</ref>
|Capacity: '''41,000'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/s/nurnberg.html |title=Nuremberg |work=FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) |access-date=16 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060616074224/http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/s/nurnberg.html |archive-date=16 June 2006}}</ref>
|-
|[[File:Rhein Energie Stadion Luftbild - aerial (20152327046).jpg|200px]]
|[[File:Hanover stadium.jpg|200px]]
|[[File:Leipzig stadium.jpg|200px]]
|[[File:Morlockstadion Arena Nbg Juli 2021.jpg|200px]]
|}

===Team base camps===
Base camps were used by the 32 national squads to stay and train before and during the World Cup tournament. FIFA announced the base camps for each participating team.<ref>{{cite web |title=Media Guide: Team Headquarters and Training Facilities |url=https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/y=2006/m=4/news=media-guide-team-headquarters-and-training-facilities-13341.html |publisher=FIFA.com (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) |date=12 April 2006 |access-date=10 February 2018 |archive-date=10 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180210180343/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/y=2006/m=4/news=media-guide-team-headquarters-and-training-facilities-13341.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
|-
! colspan="2"| National squads' base camps
|-
<td>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Team
! City
|-
| Angola
| [[Celle]]
|-
| Argentina
| [[Herzogenaurach]]
|-
| Australia
| [[Zweiflingen]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.oehringen.de/stadt/stadtgeschichte/home-base-der-socceroos.html | title=Home Base der Socceroos | access-date=2 October 2022 | archive-date=2 October 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221002130320/https://www.oehringen.de/stadt/stadtgeschichte/home-base-der-socceroos.html | url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| Brazil
| [[Bergisch Gladbach]]
|-
| Costa Rica
| [[Walldorf]]
|-
| Croatia
| [[Bad Brückenau]]
|-
| Czech Republic
| [[Westerburg]]
|-
| Ecuador
| [[Bad Kissingen]]
|-
| England
| [[Baden-Baden]]
|-
| France
| [[Aerzen]]
|-
| Germany
| [[Berlin]]
|-
| Ghana
| [[Würzburg]]
|-
| Iran
| [[Friedrichshafen]]
|-
| Italy
| [[Duisburg]]
|-
| Ivory Coast
| [[Niederkassel]]
|-
| Japan
| [[Bonn]]
|}
<td>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Team
! City
|-
| Mexico
| [[Göttingen]]
|-
| Netherlands
| [[Hinterzarten]]
|-
| Paraguay
| [[Oberhaching]]
|-
| Poland
| [[Barsinghausen]]
|-
| Portugal
| [[Marienfeld (Harsewinkel)|Marienfeld]]
|-
| Saudi Arabia
| [[Bad Nauheim]]
|-
| Serbia and Montenegro
| [[Billerbeck]]
|-
| Spain
| [[Kamen]]
|-
| South Korea
| [[Bergisch Gladbach]]
|-
| Sweden
| [[Bremen]]
|-
| Switzerland
| [[Bad Bertrich]]
|-
| Togo
| [[Wangen im Allgäu]]
|-
| Trinidad and Tobago
| [[Rotenburg an der Wümme]]
|-
| Tunisia
| [[Schweinfurt]]
|-
| Ukraine
| [[Potsdam]]
|-
| United States
| [[Hamburg]]
|}
|}