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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 11 stadiums and arenas
Best stadiums and arenas in Köln
The 10 most notable stadiums and arenas in Köln, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Kölner Junghaie
Gummersbacher Straße 4
393 m from Bahnbetriebswerk Köln-Deutzerfeld, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.271, percentile 100 of 11
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2
Franz-Kremer-Stadion
Franz-Kremer-Allee 1-3
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.267, percentile 90 of 11
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3
Südkurve Köln-Sülz
Luxemburger Str. 228
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.256, percentile 80 of 11
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4
Sportpark Höhenberg
Höhenberger Ring, Günter-Kuxdorf-Weg 1
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.115, percentile 70 of 11
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5
Ulrike Meyfarth Stadion
Jahnstraße 1
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.053, percentile 60 of 11
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6
Soccerarena Hürth
Hans-Böckler-Straße 136a
467 m from Hürth-Kalscheuren station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.029, percentile 50 of 11
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7
Schlossparkstadion
Bonnstraße 21
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.002, percentile 40 of 11
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8
Deutsches Rotes Kreuz Leverkusen DRK-Ortsverein Hitdorf
Hitdorfer Straße 61
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 0.878, percentile 30 of 11
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9
DJK-Beachanlage
Unterer Komarweg 8
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 0.726, percentile 20 of 11
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10
Salus Park Stadion
Argeles-sur-Mer-Straße 6
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 0.303, percentile 10 of 11
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).