VTB Arena

VTB Arena stands in Moscow, and the one figure attached to it with real certainty is its scale: a fixed capacity of 45,360 seats, all under one listed number rather than a range that shifts by event.

That size alone marks it out from the smaller, single-purpose grounds dotted through the Russian capital — a stadium built to hold a crowd running well past forty thousand sits in a different category from the modest venues most local sides make do with. Beyond the seat count and the city, though, little else about the ground is settled well enough to put down here: no confirmed date for when the building was finished, no agreed record of a name it may have carried earlier, no club listed as its resident tenant. For now, VTB Arena is known chiefly by where it stands and by how many it can hold — a ground in Moscow, built for just over forty-five thousand.