Details for Liebenau Stadium (UPC Arena), Graz

The Liebenau Stadium, also known as the UPC Arena and Arnold Schwarzenegger Stadium is the home ground of soccer teams Grazer AK and Sturm Graz.

The stadium is sited in the city of Graz, capital of Styria prvince, SE Austria, on the Mur River.The stadium, which has the capacity of 15,400, cost 25 million Euros to build, and was opened on July 7, 1997.

The stadium was firstly named The Schwarzenegger Stadium, after Arnold Schwarzenegger, a former movie star and body builder. In December 2005, Officials of the town removed the large metal letters of his name overnight in a show of disagreement of the US death Penalty. Schwarzenegger, acting as the Californian governor had not shown clemency to an inmate who was on death row.