| Stadium Name: | OWL Arena |
| Logo Image: | OWL-Arena Logo.svg |
| Location: | Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| Opened: | 1993 |
| Renovated: | 1994 (Sattler Europe), 2005 |
| Operator: | OWL Sport & Event Verwaltung GmbH |
| Surface: | Grass court |
| Construction Cost: | € 35 million (1993) € 3.5 million (renovated 2005) |
| Architect: | Sattler Europe[1] |
| Former Names: | Gerry Weber Stadion (1993–2020) |
| Tenants: | Halle Open (tennis) (1993–present) |
| Seating Capacity: | 12,300 (tennis) 11,000 (handball) |
OWL Arena, formerly Gerry Weber Stadion, is a multi-purpose stadium, located in Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany. The capacity of the arena is 12,300 people and it opened in 1993.
In early 2020, a consortium of 13 sponsors became owner of the venue and its name was changed to OWL Arena.[2] [3]
The stadium has a retractable roof which can be closed in 88 seconds, which rules out the risk of tennis matches having to be suspended because of rain. It is one of the few grass court tennis venues around. The stadium is heated and also used for other sport events (handball, basketball, prisonball, volleyball and boxing), TV shows and concerts.
Halle Gerry-Weber-Stadion railway station is located 500m from the stadium on the Osnabrück to Bielefeld railway line.
The tennis arena hosts the Halle Open every year in June. On 2 April 2005, Irish vocal pop band Westlife held a concert for their The No 1's Tour supporting their album ...Allow Us to Be Frank.
In January 2007, several games of the Handball World Championship took place there; most of them were sold out with 11,000 spectators.