BERLIN
Stadiums
The Olympiastadion , home ground of Hertha Berlin and also the national stadium, holds 76,000. It staged three games during the 1974 World Cup and six in 2006, including the Final, and hosts the German Cup Final and internationals. It is set in huge grounds built as a vast sports complex for the 1936 Olympics. The Marathon Gate with its clock tower remain in place after the recent overhaul, during which the pitch was lowered, roof extended and lighting upgraded.
The venue has its own stations on the red U2 line and S5 and S75 S-Bahn lines. For Hertha games, book tickets via www.ticketmaster.de. The cheapest ones are at the Marathontor end (¤21.50-24.50/£15-17). Gegentribune tickets are ¤26.50-49.50 (£18.50-34.50) and those in the main Haupttribune ¤39.50-69.50 (£27.50-48.50).
Union play at the sparse, 18,000-capacity Alte Forsterei, a short walk from Kopenick on the S3 line. Its clubhouse bar, Abseitsfalle (offside trap), is the best of its kind in Berlin. Dynamo and Turkiyemsporuse the Sportforum Hohenschonhausen (trams 5, 15 or 23 from Frankfurter Allee or Landsberger Allee on the S8/S10 lines) and the nearby, larger Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sportpark next to Eberswalder Strasse on the U2 line.
Tennis Borussia play at the Mommsenstadion (named after Nobel prize-winning historian Theodor Mommsen), near Eichkamp on the S5 and S75 lines.
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