Venue: Allianz Arena
Capacity: 59,416
Bundesliga teams: Bayern Munich
The World Cup will get underway on June 9 at Munich's new state of the art Allianz Arena.
The 59,000 capacity venue cost 280million euros to build and was opened in May 2005 with a friendly between its joint owners Bayern Munich and TSV 1860 Munich.
Although the stadium is new, World Cup football is a familiar sight to Munich's older residents, as the Olympiastadion was the venue for Germany's 2-1 victory against the Netherlands in the final of the 1974 tournament.
The opening game between Germany and Costa Rica will be the first of six to take place in Munich.
The group matches between Tunisia and Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Australia and Ivory Coast and Serbia & Montenegro follow, before a second phase game between the winner of Germany's Group A and the runner-up from England's group B.
The World Cup will leave Munich on July 5 with the second semi-final.
Allianz Arena
Fri 9 June
Germany 4 v 2 Costa Rica
17:00, Group A
Wed 14 June
Tunisia 2 v 2 Saudi Arabia
17:00, Group H
Sun 18 June
Brazil 2 v 0 Australia
17:00, Group F
Wed 21 June
Ivory Coast 3 v 2 Serbia & Montenegro
20:00, Group C
Sat 24 June
Germany 2 v 0 Sweden
16:00, Last Sixteen
Wed 5 July
Portugal 0 v 1 France
20:00, Semi Finals
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