Porsche-Arena

Porsche Arena
Location	Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg; Germany
Coordinates	48°47′35″N 9°13′42″E / 48.79306°N 9.22833°E
Capacity	7,849 (Boxing) ; 7,576 (Stage shows) ; 6,181 (basketball, handball) ; 6,042 (concerts) ; 5,068 (hockey)
Construction
Broke ground	April, 2005
Opened	May 27, 2006
Construction cost	€ 31,16 million
Architect	'asp' architekten Stuttgart
Tenants
	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix (Tennis) (2006-present); Handball World Championship, (handball) (2007); Table Tennis European (Table tennis) (Sep 2009)

Porsche Arena is a multi-purpose arena, located in Stuttgart, Germany. The seating capacity of the arena varies, from 5,100 to 8,000 people and it was opened in 2006, after 14 months of construction.

To fund the construction, costs had already been pre-construction sales of the name rights planned. Dr. Ing h.c. F. Porsche AG bought the name rights, for a ten million euro, for a term of 20 years.

The arena is part of a sport complex that includes the adjacent Mercedes-Benz Arena and Schleyerhalle.

It is the venue for the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, a WTA Tour event and also hosted some matches at the 2007 World Men's Handball Championship.

Anton Hunger: “The tournament is now at home in Stuttgart. We knew we’d make mistakes at the first edition. But we didn’t promise too much last year and have eliminated almost all the mistakes in 2007. A total of more than 36,000 spectators were in the arena. The number was up on the previous year even though seating was slightly reduced to improve comfort.”