Ernst Happel Stadion is Austria's national stadium, the largest in the country. The capacity of its stands is nearly 51,000. Football club matches are usually limited to the national cup finals and international competitions. The stadium hosted seven UEFA Euro 2008 matches, including the final in which Spain triumphed over Germany.
The stadium was built in 1929-1931 according to the design of the German architect Otto Ernst Schweizer for the second Workers' Olympics. In the years 1938-1945 the building served as a military barracks and a temporary prison for the Jewish population before deportations to concentration camps. In 1939, after the attack on Poland, more than a thousand Polish-born Viennese Jews were detained here by order of Reinhard Heydrich.
Initially, it was called Praterstadion, which came from the park on which it was built. In 1992, after the death of Ernst Happel, a football player and longtime national team coach, he was named after him.
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