- Address: Moscow
- Country: Russia
- Capacity: 45,000
- Opened: 5 September 2014
- Main use: Football
- Tenants: Spartak Moscow (football)
Extra stadium info – Lukoil Arena
The construction of the Lukoil Arena, which is also used for concerts, started in 2010. It was named Otkritie Bank Arena before it became the Lukoil Arena. In 2017, the venue hosted football matches for the last edition of the FIFA Confederations Cup. The last edition of the tournament took place at four Russian stadiums. The national football teams of Australia, Cameroon, Chile, the Portuguese Republic, Russia and the United Mexican States played FIFA Confederations Cup games at the Lukoil Arena. 42,000 people attended the FIFA Confederations Cup third-place match at the venue, which was won by the Portuguese Republic after beating the United Mexican States. The other FIFA Confederations Cup matches at the Lukoil Arena were group-stage matches.
FIFA World Cup matches
The stadium hosted its first-ever FIFA World Cup match on 16 June 2018, when the national football team of the Argentine Republic faced Iceland in front of 44,000 fans. It was the first-ever FIFA World Cup match which included Iceland, one of the 32 participants of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The national football teams of Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, England, Poland, Senegal, Serbia and Tunisia also played FIFA World Cup games at the Lukoil Arena in 2018.
Spartak Moscow
Spartak Moscow, also known as The People’s Team, moved to the Lukoil Arena in 2014. They drew an average attendance of 25,000 in 15 home games during their first Russian top-flight football league season at the venue. Spartak Moscow and arch-rivals CSKA are among the first Russian football clubs with 100,000 followers on their main social media page. In 1991, Spartak Moscow became the first club from Moscow in the semi-finals of the European championship for football clubs. They were eliminated by the French club Olympique de Marseille in the semi-finals.
