Otkritie Arena

History and description:

The Otkritie Arena is the as of late opened new home of Spartak Moscow. In its history, Spartak had never claimed a legitimate stadium, utilizing different stadiums around Moscow rather, and at last playing at Luzhniki Stadium. 

The club had been hoping to assemble another stadium from as right on time as the mid-1990s, however early plans neglected to appear. The undertaking of the Otkritie Arena wound up concrete in 2005 after the club procured a site at the Tushino Airfield grounds in the far north-west of Moscow. 

Scarcely any advance was made in the next years, anyway, the money related emergency in 2008 prompted fundamentally diminished development costs, which thus made getting financing less demanding. Development of the stadium at long last began in July 2010. 

Starting designs ran for a stadium with around 35,000 seats, yet this was later reexamined upwards to 42,000 with an eye on the 2018 World Cup. The Otkritie Arena got along these lines affirmed as the second Moscow playing setting other than Luzhniki Stadium, beating Dynamo's VTB Arena for the spot. 

In February 2013, Spartak reported a naming rights to manage neighborhood bank Otkritie, bringing about the name Otkritie Arena. The stadium authoritatively opened on 5 September 2014 with a neighborly amongst Spartak and Red Star (1-1). 

The Otkritie Arena was chosen as one of the playing settings of the 2017 Confederations Cup, facilitating three initially round gathering matches and the counterpart for third place.

Matches:

16 June 2018 16:00 – Argentina vs Iceland – Group D
19 June 2018 15:00 – Poland vs Senegal – Group H
23 June 2018 15:00 – Belgium vs Tunisia – Group B
26 June 2018 17:00 – Serbia vs Brazil – Group C
3 July 2018 21:00 – 1H vs 2G – Round of 16

How to get to the Okritie Arena:

The Otkritie Arena is situated in the north-west of Moscow, just inside the Moscow Ring Road (MKAD), at around 14 kilometers from Moscow's downtown area. 

The stadium can be effectively come by metro. Recently developed station Spartak is on the purple Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya (line 7), which goes through Moscow's middle. 

Address: ш. Волоколамское, вл. 67, Moscow

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Eat, drink, and sleep near the Otkritie Arena:

The Otkritie Arena is situated on the site of a previous runway in a Moscow suburb mostly involved private structures. There is little around as far as eating and drinking separated from a McDonald's outlet a short leave. 

There is a minimal selection of inns close to the Otkritie Arena, with the shabby and fundamental Mini Hostel and to some degree more costly Hotel Tayozhny among the constrained alternatives. Since the stadium is effortlessly come by metro, finding a lodging somewhere else with simple association may be a superior option. Click here for an outline of lodgings in Moscow.

Spartak Moscow Tickets:

Tickets for Spartak matches can be purchased on the web, by telephone +7 8 495 777 42 00 or at the ticket windows of the Otkritie Arena from a couple of days before the match also the day of the match. 

Ticket costs may rely upon the rival, however, hope to pay between RUB 700 for a seat behind the objective and RUB 2,200 for an upper-level seat at the long side for a consistent alliance coordinate.

Key facts

Club: FC Spartak Moscow | Opening: 2014 | Capacity: 45,360 seats